Good White Paper on Capacity Management by Microsoft

Capacity Management Overview
The Capacity Management SMF helps organizations achieve and sustain the IT service capacity requirements they need to support their business at a justifiable cost. For the purposes of this document, the term “capacity” is one of convenience, which, depending on the context, may imply resource capacity, such as storage, processor speed, network, or human resources, or an end-to-end IT service capacity, such as messaging, customer relationship management (CRM), or order processing. Many of the principles and suggestions for best practices still apply regardless of the type of capacity being optimized.
Capacity management is made up of three subprocesses:
• Business capacity management (BCM)
• Service capacity management (SCM)
• Resource capacity management (RCM)
These subprocesses all share a common set of activities that are applied from different perspectives. They include the following:
• Modeling
• Service monitoring
• Performance management
• Demand management
• Workload management
• Analysis
• Change initiation
• Optimization
• Trend analysis
Each of these subprocesses works toward the production and maintenance of a capacity plan and triggers requests for change through the appropriate channel. These activities all support the proper management of resources and service performance levels in order to conform to current and anticipated business requirements.




to read the full white paper please click on the link below -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/solutionaccelerators/cits/mo/smf/smfcapmg.mspx#ESF

OPNET’s Application Performance Management (APM) solutions

OPNET’s Application Performance Management (APM) solutions ensure that applications will perform effectively in production, that systems have adequate capacity to support them, and that networks that deliver application functionality can meet service level objectives.

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www.opnet.com

Capacity Planning and Design solutions by OPNET

OPNET's Capacity Planning and Design solutions leverage OPNET's unique virtual network environment, which provides an ideal venue for infrastructure planning. The virtual OPNET model accurately captures the behavior of networks, applications, and servers, allowing organizations to pro-actively provision the infrastructure to meet performance and availability requirements of new and existing applications and services.

for more information click on the link below -

www.opnet.com

BMC TM Application Response by BMC MANAGED SERVICES

The BMC TM Application Response Time Monitoring Service uses real application transactions
to quantify the end user experience — can even report differences due to geography, network
and user type. The BMC TM Application Response Time Monitoring service can monitor a wide array of applications and protocols — over 60 in all. We can also consolidate all application availability and performance data collected into a single centralized database and Web portal, so you can report on your complete enterprise. Gain a complete and holistic view of your performance, rather than one application/customer/data center at a time.

for more information click on the link below -
http://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/87/90/58790/58790.pdf

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