What is capacity management in operations management?
That’s the topic of a recent webinar with Tom Huntington and Per Bauer. They tackled the role of capacity management in operations management today (including the cloud). And they talked about the role that TeamQuest capacity management solutions play at Fortra.
Watch the full webinar below. Or keep scrolling for the short recap.
Per Bauer is the Director of International Services for capacity management at Fortra. He’s been working in the capacity management space for 15 years, with a focus on understanding the business drivers for capacity management. And he helps customers understand why to do capacity management.
The Role of Capacity Management
Capacity management starts with the assumption that you’ll have an increase in demand over time. You’ll have a sourcing mechanism tell you that you need to add capacity. In worst cases, the need for more capacity is discovered through incidents like poor performance or availability issues.
Many organizations don’t trust they’re ability to do capacity management—and that leads them to overprovisioning.
So, capacity management has a two-fold purpose. Get sufficient capacity. And avoid overspending.
Reasons for Capacity Management
There are seven key drivers for capacity management in operations management today.
- Business critical services
- Seasonality and peaks in business activity
- Business growth
- Regulatory requirements
- Provisioning lead times
- Cost optimization
- Agility
How You’ll Benefit
There are three ways that organizations benefit from capacity management. First, they improve efficiency. Second, they mitigate risks. And third, they increase their agility.
Capacity Management at Fortra
Capacity management plays an important role in the Fortra IT operations management suite.
TeamQuest capacity management solutions can take data from any source. That means you can use data you gather with other Fortra products, like:
- Network utilization data from Intermapper
- Back-up data from Robot HA
- Live IBM i data from Sequel Data Access
Plus, capacity management customers get results like:
- $10 million saved in reclaimed data center assets (telco)
- 94 percent decrease in application slowdowns in just four months (healthcare)
- $12 million saved in hardware in 15 months (insurance)
Take the Next Step with Capacity Management
Choose your path to capacity management. If you’re new to capacity management, it might make sense to start with capacity planning. Download the guide, How to Do Capacity Planning.