Friday, 3 August 2012

Five trends in capacity management


When we look at capacity management today there are a lot of challenges out there. We typically look at capacity management as 3 layers: the business layer, the service layer and the component layer

Planning ahead to meet business requirements and SLAs while managing:

Business - there is constant change with mergers and acquisitions taking place, lines of business being dropped or changed, changes to keep up with competitors.
Service - we’re looking at new ways of providing services, today we have multi-tiered, complex, service-oriented architectures to contend with.
Component – With the advent of virtualization and cloud we now have very dynamic environments where one day a service will be provided by one piece of physical hardware and the next, behind the scenes, it is moved to a different piece of physical hardware.
You have to manage and monitor all of this, how much additional capacity you have, which applications are having or causing problems.
The real goal here is to fulfil the business requirements and meet your service level agreements, both now and in the future.
We’ll start by looking at the first trend on Monday.
Rich Fronheiser
VP, Strategic Marketing


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