Lanamark

Infobox Company
name = Lanamark Inc.
type = Privately held company
foundation = 2007
location_city = Toronto
location_country = Canada
key_people = Mark Angelo, CEO
industry = software development
products = capacity planning software
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homepage = http://www.lanamark.com/

Lanamark Inc., founded in 2007, is a global provider of capacity planning software solutions for virtualization and IT assessments. Lanamark is a privately held corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Product

Lanamark Suite enables solution providers to discover and monitor customers' application workloads and server resources. Once this data is collected, they can use the software to help customers determine which virtualization platform would be most appropriate for hosting virtualized desktops and servers. This process involves identifying candidates for virtualization, determining the most appropriate target servers and allocating virtual machines across those target servers to maximize performance and availability of application workloads. The most common virtualization platforms vendors are Citrix Systems, Microsoft, Parallels, Inc., Virtual Iron and VMware, Inc.

Competing Products

There are several products that compete with the Lanamark Suite but most of them can be used only with a specific virtualization platform. Here are the leading products:

* [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Solution Accelerator]
* [http://www.vmware.com/products/capacity_planner/ VMware Capacity Planner]

References

* cite web
url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=460
title=Lanamark Virtualization Services Software
publisher=ZDNet
date=2008-06-23
last=Kusnetzky
first=Dan
* cite web
url=http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/dcc/?p=413
title=Capacity Planning for the Newly Virtual
publisher=IT Business Edge
date=2008-06-20
last=Cole
first=Arthur
* cite web
url=http://virtualization.com/news/2008/06/19/lanamark-launches-with-powerful-capacity-planning-software-suite/
title=Lanamark Launches With Powerful Capacity Planning Software Suite
publisher=virtualization.com
date=2008-06-19
* cite web
url=http://www.virtualization.info/2008/06/lanamark-leaves-stealth-mode-and-enters.html
title=Lanamark leaves the stealth mode and enters the capacity planning market
publisher=virtualization.info
date=2008-06-18
last=Perilli
first=Alessandro

* cite web
url=http://www.bmc.com/offers/performance/whitepapers/docs/2005/Virtual_Performance_Wont_Do_Capacity_Planning_for_Virtual_Systems.pdf
title=Virtual Performance Wont Do Capacity Planning for Virtual Systems
publisher=BMC Software
date=2005
last=Ding
first=Yiping
* cite web
url=http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2005/0418nsm2.html
title=Capacity planning in a virtualized world
publisher=Network World
date=2005-04-20
last=Rasmussen
first=Audrey
* cite web
url=http://regions.cmg.org/regions/mcmg/m102006_files/6187_Mark_Friedman_Virtualization.doc
title=The Reality of Virtualization for Windows Servers
publisher=Demand Technology
last=Friedman
first=Mark

External links

* [http://www.lanamark.com/ Lanamark Website]