Practice Areas
Capacity Planning
As computer environments evolve to take advantage of new technologies and strategies such as client/server, the resulting changes in infrastructure and system platforms require careful planning. In order to maximize core business advantage there is an absolute need to provide an appropriate, timely and cost-effective information technology platform.
- What will be the impact on the customer's business if computing needs are not provided when required?
- Are the capacity plans linked directly to Service Level Agreements?
- What is the cost to the business of providing too much or too little capacity through a reactive planning attitude?
Failure to properly consider and link these activities leads to enforced reactive capacity planning, significant business performance degradation and ultimately loss of market share.
The Capacity Planning services are applicable to a wide range of enterprise and HPC environments.
- Assesses the current performance and service levels
- Relates business needs to requirements for computer resource
- Provides the maximization of the existing equipment base
- Analysis of future business and operational change
- Models and evaluates alternative configurations and growth paths
- Employs scientifically validated methodologies and expert systems tools
The effective implementation of Instrumental’s capacity planning processes will:
- Ensure the correct level of resources to meet and support the business needs
- Ensure consistency and predictability of computer resources
- Minimize the risk to day-to-day operations associated with managing the information systems environment, now and in the future
- Enable integration of new applications on hardware platforms with the minimum of impact to the existing environment
- Optimize business investment in IT systems
- Established performance baseline
- Analysis of capacity requirements
- Design configuration options best suited to meet business goals
- Capacity analysis and plan
- Advice on implementation of the capacity plan