Capacity Planning
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What is Capacity Planning?
Capacity Planning is the set of services that establishes and maintains performance baselines for the distributed computing environment to project its performance capacity requirements.
Essentially, Capacity Planning is cost-effectively, precisely planning today for tomorrow's resource needs.
Concerned with areas like response time, disk space and human resources, Performance Capacity Planning takes a user-centered view of performance, asking
“How long does it take a user to perform a task?”
as well as a technology-centered view of performance, asking
“How well is the server or network performing?”
Get the Answers to Capacity ‘What if?' Questions
Capacity Planning is a critical component to enterprise network planning. While no one can tell what the future holds, Plexent helps customers predict what is likely to happen and when – at least when it comes to future needs and IT resource capacity.
We help customers not only understand what their existing use and remaining capacity are, but also forecast timeframes and specs needed for upgrades based on forecasts using predictive modeling to develop answers to the infamous “What if?” questions posed by management.
Let Plexent Take the Guesswork out of Capacity Planning
Plexent designs and implements a Capacity Planning process based on industry best practices and our proven itDNA® methodology. The capacity planning initiative involves distinct phases, including a comprehensive review of the IT environment that is used to design a “custom-fit” solution appropriate to the culture and needs of the organization.
Our Proven Approach
Plexent leverages our intellectual property, itDNA, and a proprietary approach to help customers optimize their capacity now and in the future. Our Capacity Planning service includes these steps:
- Scoping session to reach consensus on the scope of the engagement
- Interviews with key stakeholders in the processes involved in capacity management
- Review of customer documentation that describe experiences with capacity, current reporting of capacity and current process definitions
- Definition of a future capacity management model initially provided by Plexent and refined through discussion and agreement with customer stakeholders
- Identification of gaps between customer's current state and the future capacity management model. The gaps will be prioritized to identify, where possible, immediate improvements to be made.
- Actionable recommendations to close the gaps and improve customer's ability to manage capacity
- Detail designs for the future state to be implemented
- Plan for the implementation of the future state
Get Real Capacity Planning Results
Plexent doesn't just provide customers Capacity Planning consulting – we arm them with the tools, plans and knowledge to position their organizations for sustainable long-term success
- Project Planning Documents – includes agendas, invitations, presentation and final reports
- Gap Analysis – compares the policies, processes and organization of the existing technical infrastructure management and planning function against Plexent's Infrastructure Operational Best Practices
- Technical Infrastructure Assessment Report – analyzes the existing technical infrastructure components supporting the customer's critical business processes and includes business process maps, as appropriate
- Final Report – focuses on the people, processes and technology in place within the customer's environment, and includes recommendations for alternative technical and organizational changes designed to significantly improve system performance and enhance the cultural processes needed for long-term success of the IT organization
- Executive Summary and Presentation
