Monday, February 23, 2009

Are you ready for IT resource planning?

Gartner says cloud computing and virtualization will force enterprise IT to update capacity planning approaches
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Are you ready for IT resource planning?

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
As data centers evolve to incorporate emerging technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing, the practice of planning for IT resources must also change. Read full story

Denise Dubie is senior editor with Network World.

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