With limited resources and budgets, midmarket IT staffs are often handling multiple projects and not able to proactively anticipate and address problems in the data center. In part three of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center, hear from Laura DiDio, Principal at Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC), as she discusses how capacity planning and performance management tools can supplement traditional management solutions to achieve goals for your firm and overcome data center obstacles.

Functions performed by new capacity planning and performance management tools include:

• Automated functions
• Intuitive user interfaces
• Prompt application response times