Growth and capacity management

As many economies move out of recession, their capacity concerns will quickly change to managing growth and Capacity Management will have a leading role to play in ensuring that this growth is supported.

Some markets are already starting to see a flurry of merger, acquisition and consolidation and effective capacity management takes the risk out of these changes.

One way it does this is through providing the means to control suppliers.  In a Cloud world where resource is controlled outside your own environment, this is ever more important.  Use Capacity Management tools and techniques to plan what you need and manage your supplier relationship with this knowledge: a sound view of what you need and when, rather than being driven by their influence.

In this way the business requirement will drive capacity, not technological factors.  While the CFO might loosen the purse strings as we enter a growth phase, they have seen the costs of over-provisioning on IT infrastructure and are unlikely to countenance the same excesses of risk avoidance again.  By matching what the business needs against what that service needs to cost, approval for genuine requirements will be easier to achieve.

Take a look at our free downloads section for white papers on capacity management http://www.metron-athene.com/_downloads/_published_papers/index.html

Andrew Smith

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer