IT Business Capacity Planning
Proper capacity planning is vital to the ongoing health of your IT infrastructure, as well as that of your business. Effective planning ensures that enough capacity is available to meet service demand levels at all times—and that systems are optimized to avoid under-utilized resources that can cost you big bucks. PERFMAN ensures that you derive the greatest value from your IT investments, improving productivity by providing users the resources they need, when they need them.
With PERFMAN’s historic data repository, you can see what’s happened in the past and where the trouble spots are likely to be, so you can easily plan for future requirements. Sophisticated, yet easy-to-use modeling, forecasting and reporting capabilities are built right into PERFMAN, so sharing alerts, problem areas and capacity, are just a few clicks away. No more second-guessing when it comes to budgeting or capital requests. Using PERFMAN to predict future needs and plan spending gives you the confidence to have accurate and insightful business conversations.
Here’s how one Fortune 500 leader in healthcare, insurance and employee benefits uses PERFMAN for capacity planning and performance.
“Understanding variations in business cycles, seasonal trends and changes in usage over time are our primary responsibilities for capacity planning at our company. In our business, we have a predictable spike of activity in the fall, at enrollment time, with unpredictable consequences in our IT infrastructure. To make our jobs easier and our decisions more credible, we use PERFMAN. Our department is always looking out for virtual memory constraints, changes in rates of activities, and spikes in .net activities—across both UNIX and Windows platforms. With PERFMAN, it’s surprisingly simple to get the data we need, in a format that’s understandable, to do very quick analyses and make very serious decisions. Many times, we present PERFMAN data to our application and business managers to show areas of concern regarding future resource usage. That data is crucial to the performance of our entire infrastructure. Data collection (especially in our Windows environment) was just not possible before—and without data collection, there is no capacity planning.”
PERFMAN’s powerful capacity planning capabilities enable you to get in front of problems before they occur and break the cycle of reactive, seemingly endless fire-fighting that all too frequently plagues IT and prevents it from truly partnering with the business.
To schedule an online demo or learn more about the PERFMAN solution, contact us today or call (610) 865-0300.
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PERFMAN Supported Platforms Include: VMware, Linux, Unix, Windows, z/OS
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