Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling

Large business entities that require strategic and practical planning to achieve cost-effective outcomes use capacity planning and performance measurement software . These often save the company from highly probable losses on inefficient use of company 's services or resources . Gunther (2007 ) cited that over millions of dollars were lost by corporation just because their service level targets were not met under heavy load (p .1 Capacity planning determines what the system needs and when it needs it based on the current performance as the baseline . This happens without regard to what is being optimized

but its foremost consideration is the current performance in order to estimate what will be needed in the future (Allspaw 2008 ,

.6 . Meanwhile , performance measurement analyzes and optimizes the existing system to address performance problem that might impact a release schedule or deployed functionality (Gunther 2007 br

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Some of the capacity planning software are Atlantis Data Space Analyser 1 .0 .293 , Multi-Project Planner 3 .0 and Supply Chain Planning (SCP ) 4 .0 These are all for the business and productivity tools category (Table 1 . Atlantis Data Space Analyser 1 .0 .293 is a free graphical tool for making capacity judgments for SQL Server by producing graphical representations of object storage requirements from each database . This quickly spots inconsistencies in the space used by objects and find which are using what space through interactive charts . The acceptable platform can be Windows 2000 or Windows XP (http /www .atlantis-interactive .co .uk /products /dataspaceanalyser /defaul t .aspx

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