Determining the number of phone lines required for a facility can be a daunting task for IT leaders that have recently taken on telecom responsibilities. Planners should leverage available data sources and established traffic analysis methods to...

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Organizations that use efficiency metrics to monitor, measure, and manage data center efficiency are more successful in lower operating expenses in the data center over time.

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Organizations that use efficiency metrics to monitor, measure, and manage data center efficiency are more successful in lower operating expenses in the data center over time. Use this storyboard to develop a strategy, choose metrics, set...

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Explosive data growth, cloud computing, virtualization and consolidation, mobile computing; these are all major technology trends that are having a large impact on IT departments today. For infrastructure professionals, these trends are top of...

The cloud market has seen tremendous growth in the last year and can offer great value to IT organizations. Info-Tech's research will help your organization navigate through the waters of cloud storage.

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The typical trigger for acquiring servers is hardware refresh; however, getting the most value out of server purchases requires a strategic context. This business plan template puts the server acquisition in the context of a server consolidation...

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Completing an annual review of the data center resource utilization and physical condition plays a crucial part in overall capacity planning and IT effectiveness. Comparing the current base-line state against information captured in future...

Building or refreshing the data center is a large, time consuming, and expensive project that requires both in-house estimations and third party consultation. The requirements gathering process is one of the most important steps for the project....

When building or refreshing the data center, IT must have a high level understanding of requirements and potential budget. Facility requirements for power, cooling, standby power, fire protection, sizing, and architectural space layout should be...

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This tool is designed to help organizations determine top tactics for cost reduction within the network and telephony service area. After the questions have been completed, the tool will generate guidance on which cost-saving actions to take,...

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After the preliminary ranking of projects, actual resource availability needs to be taken into account. In this stage, IT capacity for completing projects will be measured against the projects that have already been identified as high priority.

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Enterprises looking to reduce costs in the network and telephony services area can make significant headway in reducing expenses without reducing quality of service. First, determine which areas have potential for cost savings, then assess how...

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To control demand on IT resources, it's imperative to document available people resources and the percentage of their time to be allocated to specific activities or projects. Use this "IT Resource Designation Worksheet" on a quarterly basis at a...

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Managing business demand on IT is one of the last frontiers in achieving true IT-business alignment. Improve interdepartmental communications and put evaluative demand controls in place to reduce IT costs and improve the business value of IT...

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When IT resources are in limited supply, demand on those resources from the business can quickly create strain. Learn how to forecast and control demand in order to set a strong foundation for business-IT relations going forward.

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Resources are scarce in small IT shops. To help control demand on IT resources, use this "IT Resource Allocation Worksheet" to document available people resources and the percentage of their time to be allocated to activities.

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Small enterprises face many choices when developing a backup strategy. Compare business demands to key media characteristics to inform backup media selection.

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Small enterprises selecting backup media must consider enterprise needs including RTO and RPO, as well as media limitations in capacity, life-span, reliability, availability, off-site suitability, and cost. Use this tool, informed by enterprise...

Utility infrastructure ? the abstraction of processors and storage from the underlying hardware to enable dynamic provisioning of these resources to applications ? will improve capacity utilization and increase IT agility. Making this a reality...

Job Description

The Network Analyst's role is to design, build, and implement network systems across the enterprise. This includes planning, developing, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all local and wide area network...