Transformation AnalyticsAnalyst Reports & White Papers
Analyst Reports
EMA Report: CiRBA Version 7
EMA analyst Torsten Volk shares his views on CiRBA Version 7 in this three page review of the software.
"EMA believes that CiRBA 7.0 provides a glance into the future of data center intelligence and capacity planning and brings the enterprise one significant step closer to optimal resource allocation, resulting in tremendous CAPEX and OPEX savings."
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Frost & Sullivan Report: New Product Innovation Award Management & Analytics for Cloud & Virtual Environments
- CiRBA v7.0
CiRBA received the North American New Product Innovation Award in Management and
Analytics for Cloud and Virtual Environments from Frost & Sullivan for CiRBA Version 7.0 and
the new Control Console.
Download this report from Frost & Sullivan on CiRBA V7 to learn why they thought
CiRBA was best in class.
CiRBA releases v7 of Control for virtual and cloud infrastructure
This report provides 451 analyst, Rachel Chalmers views on CiRBA's new Control Console available in Control v7.
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White papers for Transformation Planning
Transformational Analytics: Virtualizing IT Environments
The overwhelming complexity of the modern data center compounds the problem of how to safely virtualize IT environments. The subtleties of many environments are simply beyond the grasp of the human mind, and current systems management tools are not designed to aggregate information in a way that would alleviate this. Hence Data Center Intelligence, purpose-built software designed to pull together the technical, business and utilization data required to analyze and manage the transformation and operation of IT environments.
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How to Choose the Right Virtualization Technology For Your Environment
As new virtualization technologies are released into the market, organizations are offered more flexibility and choice. The challenge now presenting itself to organizations is which strategy is the right one?
How to Choose the Right Virtualization Technology for Your Environment is a new white paper authored by Andrew Hillier, Co-founder and CTO of CiRBA, that outlines the key considerations in choosing the virtualization strategy and technology that best suits your environment. In this paper, Andrew shares insights on how factors ranging from performance and security considerations to financial concerns can impact the viability, stability and success of your virtualization initiative.
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Advanced Workload Analysis Techniques
This paper outlines how to analyze utilization curves in virtual IT environments in order to go beyond simplistic sizing approaches and understand true workload requirements and patterns.
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White papers for Infrastructure Optimization & Risk Reduction
Optimizing Capacity Forecasting Processes with
a Capacity Reservations System for IT
Virtually every area of human endeavour that involves the use of shared resources relies on a reservation system to manage the booking of these assets. Hotels, airlines, rental companies and even the smallest of restaurants rely on reservation systems to optimize the use of their assets and balance customer satisfaction with profitability. Or, as economists would say, strike a balance between supply and demand.
So how can a modern IT environment expect to operate effectively without having a functioning capacity reservation system? The simple answer is that it can't. With the rise of cloud computing, where resources are shared on a larger scale and capacity is commoditized, modeling future bookings and proper forecasting of demand is critical to the survival of IT. Not having proper systems in place leaves forecasting to trending and guesswork - a dangerous proposition that usually results in over-provisioning and excessive capacity.
Download this paper to learn how to manage the demand pipeline for new workload
placements in order to improve the accuracy of capacity forecasting and increase agility
in response to new workload placement requests.
Server Capacity Defrag: Maximizing Infrastructure Efficiency through Strategic Workload Placements
This is not a paper on disk defrag. Although conceptually similar, Server Capacity Defrag refers to an approach to server optimization through strategic workload placement to maximize VM density on hosts. This paper outlines how to leverage analytics to match workloads together to maximize the use of available infrastructure, enabling users to safely increase density and fit more workloads into environments.
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Analytics for Internal Cloud Management
This whitepaper outlines how CiRBA analytics enables organizations to evaluate and plan the most appropriate use of Internal and External Cloud Computing options alongside more traditional physical or virtual infrastructure to determine the best place infrastructure for workloads.
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