I can't believe that CA World is only days away. Hopefully everyone has taken notice that this year's event will feature a number of sessions/labs/demos dedicated exclusively to Capacity Management.
Proactive Capacity Management is listed as one of the key areas of focus with most customers and our Hyperformix acquisition places CA Technologies in a unique position to help organizations, especially those with large, diverse infrastructures spanning both physical and virtual platforms.
This year at CA World we not only have the legacy Hyperformix product suite as part of our portfolio, we also will showcase a number of new additions and enhancements, including support for converged compute (e.g. FlexPod and vBlock) infrastructure, new costing capabilities and the highly anticipated integration with CA Application Performance Management.
To learn more, I suggest attending the following sessions. You can find more by using our Agenda Builder.
The Migration Dilemma - Migrating from P2V and V2V
Abstract: Whether you are planning to move your workloads from physical to virtual platforms, or considering alternative hypervisor choices or converged infrastructures like the VCE Vblock, designing and configuring VM's and clusters and determining where workloads are best placed is time consuming and inaccurate. Join us for an informative look at CA's Capacity Management solution and how it can be used to make informed decisions on configuring clusters, balancing VM's and hosts, optimizing utilization and placing workloads. We will also illustrate the power of what-if scenarios to predict the impact of changing workload volumes, platforms, hardware, OS, hypervisors and other important variables that impact performance.
Applying Intelligence to Continually Optimize your Virtual Investment
Abstract: Virtualizing IT infrastructures can be costly when resources are not optimally utilized. Virtual infrastructures by nature are constantly changing, therefore it is imperative you apply automation to constantly evaluate the efficient use of your virtual resources. Join us as we illustrate how CA's Capacity Management solution can help you balance your virtual infrastructure to ensure optimal performance of business services while driving down costs.
Hands-on Lab: CA Virtual Placement Manager - Ensuring the Optimization of your Virtual Investment
Abstract: Join us for a hands-on demonstration of the powerful capabilities of CA Virtual Placement Manager. We will illustrate how CA Virtual Placement Manager can be used to provide placement recommendations for workloads while balancing virtual resources to ensure optimal performance of business services while driving down costs.
Planning for Capacity, Planning for Performance
Abstract: Have you ever wondered if you will be able to meet the needs of the business based upon business growth projections? Having insight to make informed decisions as business demand, infrastructure, and platform changes are all taking place simultaneously is vital to ensure the availability of critical business services. Join us as we demonstrate methods in which you can gain the insight required to plan for capacity and performance.
I look forward to an exciting three days and hope to see you in Vegas!!