Most organizations will rightly claim they are performing capacity management already. Decisions about capacity are taking place, whether by guesswork, advice from outside or based on specialist products such as athene®. Keeping pace with all the considerations gets harder and harder however, as IT infrastructure becomes ever more complex.
Where in the past we had one mainframe for which to plan, and that only had a change in capacity once per year, IT infrastructure is now more diverse. Through the proliferation of distributed servers to the ever-growing mass of load balancers, proxy and firewall servers, our environment gets more complex and difficult to manage.
New architectures bring both new threats as well as new opportunities. Ease of implementation means that virtual servers can be rolled out even more easily than distributed servers., Cloud brings greater flexibility of addition or removal of resource.
All this increase in complexity means it gets ever more challenging to keep up with aligning capacity plans with an organization’s strategic business direction. The risk is that we keep making technical infrastructure decisions because we ‘can’ do it this way rather than because we ‘should’ do it this way.
One answer to growing diversity in the environment you have to manage is to reduce the diversity of tools with which you manage it. For some time now Gartner have been recommending that large corporations adopt a single tool for managing capacity, rather than the mix and match selection of point tools often collected over time.
Project driven development has often meant point tools have been selected for managing capacity for each new technology as implemented. Cloud and the need for a more strategic view of capacity across all areas of infrastructure provide the ideal time to re-consider a fragmented product policy and introduce a streamlined solution across the enterprise.
With its broad data capture capability plus market-leading functionality to incorporate data from any source, athene® provides this. Immediate savings on cancelled software licenses and on-going savings through reduced time to achieve capacity objectives provide you with a swift return on investment.
Take a look at our athene® software and services………….
Andrew Smith
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
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