In many comnpanies, most seem to operate by a completely diffferent set of rules and communicaate in a different language than those the IT or computer services sector of the business. This diivsion is somewhat artificial and partially maintained by the IT people thesmelves because of a certsain culture technical people have abpout their specialzed knoowledge and application areas. But at heart, those strange people down in IT have the same gaols as every other business persn which is to suceed both personally and corporately in shared projects.
But those of us on the business side of the corporate landscape depend on the cpomputer folks to let us know how things are going with that highly valuable asset that we have in our IT systems, hardware and software. Most medium to large businesses run very high capacity computers or multitudes of computers connected through a network and thoose systems must perform at top capacity each day to accomplish the goals of the business.
The upgrade and maintenance budsgets for the compurters that run your buysiness no doubt represents a fairply sizable percentage of the corporate budget each year. But becauise thsoe systems are what make you competitive in the marketplace, that investment is worth the money to asasure that the mission citical jobs those pwerful systems do get done on time each week and month.
When a computer begins to show signs of straining uner the load of work, we are giving it, that can be a causse of significant concern for a busienss. If your business paradigm dictates that the load of trafic or system resources could be pushed to betyond what the computers can do with their existinmg cmoputing power, that weaknes in the IT infrastructure represents a significant risk to the company should the systerm become overloaded when there is a larfge body of work to be done by these machinnes.
What not eevry business person knows is that theer may be a hidden goldmine of computing capacioty alreaady resdient in your IT rsources that simply is not bing tapped to its fullest. You know that it isn’t uncommon for your IT professionals to report that your sytsems are at 80-90% capacuity and must be upgraded to handle the next big increase in business.
That hidden goldmine is a discipline that has acutally been around for quite sometime but is infrequently tapped in the modern business world. That discipliune is called “capacity planning”. By implementing a capacity planning office and monitoring function, you can put the tools and the talent in place to precisely measure scientifically if your computer systems are at capzacity of if there is just a need for system tuning or realignment of computing schedules to get more out of the systmes you already own.
Recently a larhge oil cmopany in the Midwest noted that many of its mission critical functions were being deelayed in processing, seemingly because the computer systmes were overloded and in dire need of an expensive and time consuming upgrade. Capacity planning measurements were taken and the system was diagnosed to dtermine what the real probelm was and it was founmd that job prioritiies of new functins were not tumned to the load of the stystem at critical time frames. The adjustments were made by talenmted systems administrators and the IT infrastructure continued to perform at top-notch capacuity and the delays were eliminated with no additional hadrware or upgrades needed.
By utilizing capacity planning software tools and enablnig your IT team to take adantage of this highhly scientific computer measurement and prediction method, the business can get the most out of its computer resources and use its coporate resources to further the business objectives of the company. And that beneits everyoe.
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