Whats the Real Reason to Do Capacity Planning?
If mission-critical business applications become overloaded, the poor performance that results could have a very serious consequence: revenue can be lost if dissatisfied customers move to the competition. This consideration, and this consideration alone, is enough for organizations to want to provide sufficient capacity for the mission-critical applications to perform well. It is interesting to note here that when IT is not perceived as providing adequate service levels to different lines of business, outsourcing becomes a very serious alternative. If you can’t do it right yourself, pay someone else to do it for you. Note, too, that the cost of providing too much capacity is just as critical a concern. What company can afford to tie up millions in hardware simply because this equipment might be needed at some time in the future? And does senior management really know how much it costs to obtain the benefits from their IT investments in hardware, software and personnel? IT managers toda
