Capacity

A few weeks ago we discussed how using minimum utilisation could help characterise operational issues. A server had failed and some ‘after the fact’ analysis had shown that its CPU utilisation had increased on a...

Last week I noticed this headline on BBC News: 'Smarter' South East airport capacity needed. Having a natural interest in capacity, and also airports, the title sounded intriguing – what does the BBC actually mean...

Operational Capacity Management (OCM) is a discipline that deals with the day-to-day management of IT systems. Typically focussed on infrastructure rather than business processes there are many metrics and...

In the previous three parts of this blog series we have developed a forecast of file storage size and implemented some parameters to allow the end user to adjust the forecast (such as adding additional growth to...

Full series: capacity modelling guide