Category Archives: Capacity Management

How big should your Capacity team be?

It sounds like the start of a particularly poor joke, but IS there an optimum size for a Capacity Planning team? This might come down to the heart of the issue for many Capacity experts. Do you want your team … Continue reading

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Can Tools ever replace Analysts?

Over the years, the quality of tools available to the Capacity Manager have improved immensely. Little's Law may have been written before the advent of mass computing, but its application is crucial to predicting computing capacity. One of the earlier … Continue reading

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Better than average?

How busy is a system? If one could measure a system at the most detailed level, then a system would either be busy doing "something" or it would be idle doing "nothing". Curiously enough, moving from this fact to the … Continue reading

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