Surgient, the leading provider of IT service delivery optimization and virtualization automation solutions, today announced a Webinar, “Beyond Virtualization: How Automation and Dynamic Capacity Management Drive Down Capital Costs and Increase Utilization.” Scheduled for Wednesday, June 10 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time, the Webinar will explore how enterprise IT can fully harness the cost savings and operational benefits of rapid provisioning that comes with a self-service infrastructure model.

The rapidly increasing adoption of virtualized infrastructure provides for new approaches to IT capacity management, resulting in dramatic cost savings. Virtualization separates, or abstracts, the capacity within a server from the physical hardware supplying the resources, and the resulting pool of capacity can be provisioned as needed. However, capturing the full benefits of this abstraction in a self-service environment necessitates some changes to the way enterprise IT approaches capacity management.

To truly benefit from the rapid provisioning and streamlined processes enabled by self service, a new method of capacity management is needed that views the total available resources in aggregate and intelligently positions workloads within a pool of resources to maintain maximum utilization levels. This method of dynamic, deterministic capacity management requires a critical technology component: guaranteed resource reservations. Guaranteed resources, merged with resource pooling, workload capacity definitions, and predictive workload placement, create significant operational and capital benefits for enterprise IT organizations implementing a self-service infrastructure model.

What: “Beyond Virtualization: How Automation and Dynamic Capacity Management Drive Down Capital Costs and Increase Utilization.” Webinar 
When: Wednesday, June 10, 2009  2 p.m. Eastern Time / 1 p.m. Central Time / 11 a.m. Pacific Time 
Speakers: Dave Malcolm, Chief Technology Officer, Surgient and Nicole McGarry, Director of Product Marketing, Surgient 
Register at: 
http://www.surgient.com/event-reg/20090519-capacity-management.htm