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Capacitas: Leadership in Performance Assurance

Summary: In this newsletter

  • Published Article: Making Agile Performance Testing Fly: Published Article
  • Recent Whitepaper: Challenges of Capacity Management using Virtualisation
  • Recent Presentation: Experiences in Agile Performance Testing
  • Recent Presentation: SOA, Agile Development and Service Management
  • Recent Presentation: Ensuring End-to-End Service Performance
  • Forthcoming training courses

Making Agile Performance Testing Fly

Capacitas Principal Consultant Paul Seaton-Smith has recently authored an article for the latest edition of T.E.S.T magazine. This article discusses the performance and capacity challenges around adopting Agile Development processes, using the example of easyJet.com. The article can be found on T.E.S.T Magazine's website here.

Recent Whitepaper

Meeting the Challenges of Capacity Management in Virtualised Environments

In recent years, the increased popularity of server virtualisation has introduced considerable complexity into the Capacity Management process. This paper describes possible solutions to some of the challenges that may be encountered when conducting capacity management of services based on server virtualisation technologies. The paper also reveals a number of important areas where virtualisation is not able to deliver the magnitude of cost savings that many organisations initially expect.

Please see our Research section for a selection of white papers, presentations and articles on various areas of performance assurance and capacity management.

Recent Presentations

TestExpo™, 11th December 2008

Capacitas presented and exhibited at TestExpo™, which was on the 11th of December 2008 at the Plaisterers Hall in London. Paul Seaton-Smith, Principal Consultant at Capacitas, presented on the following topic:

UKCMG North West Regional Meeting, 3rd December 2008

At the UKCMG North West Regional Meeting Andy Bolton, Chief Executive of Capacitas, presented on the following topic:

itSMF Annual Conference, 10th-12th November 2008

At the itSMF UK Annual Conference Danny Quilton, Chief Operating Officer of Capacitas, presented on the following topic:

The itSMF 2008 Annual Conference was held at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole.

Forthcoming Training Courses

All public training below is held at our new Training Centre. This is located at our head office in London, UK.

Course TitleDate
General Course Programme (Non-Certificated)
Excel for Effective Capacity & Performance Mgmt14th Apr
Introduction to Capacity Management16th-17th Apr
Developing Excel Performance & Capacity Models15th-16th Jun
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Foundation Certificate in Capacity & Performance Mgmt
Tools & Methods1st-4th Jun
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Practitioner Certificate in Capacity & Performance Mgmt
Server Virtualisation25th-26th Mar
Solaris and Linux20th-23rd Apr
IBM Mainframe 27th-29th Apr
Storage Area Networks (SANs)6th-8th May
Microsoft Windows Server18th-20th May
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Manager's Certificate in Capacity & Performance Mgmt
Capacity Planning & Management Processes17th-18th Jun

Please click on the above links to review the course descriptions or email us at Capacitas Training. More details...

Please note that the courses above do not include the associated examination. The examination and a study tutorial are purchased separately. More details...

Recent Customers of Capacitas

Recent customers of Capacitas include: easyJet, National Australia Group, Nokia, BSkyB, Capita, Carphone Warehouse, HBOS, Metronet, and Orange. For more details on what some of our customers have to say about us please have a look at our testimonials and training feedback pages.

Capacitas Services

If you are interested in learning more about our services please email Contact Us, or call +44 (0) 20 7841 9950.


About Us

Capacitas is a UK-based consulting, training services and outsourcing company focussed on ICT performance, capacity and cost.

Consulting

Capacitas offers consulting services, focussed on ICT performance, capacity and cost management, covering areas such as design assurance, modelling, planning and auditing.

Training

Capacitas offers world class training in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Performance and Capacity Management.

For further details click on the image below to see our current training calendar.

Training Calendar