capacity planning

Seasonal surges in capacity, while difficult, are par for the course for most businesses. And while there’s no way to fully standardize your business levels, you can manage changes—with proper planning. Most businesses experience this to one degree or another, however some organizations are faced with fewer resources to expand and contract with ease. Seasonal capacity issues can vary throughout the year and aren’t strictly limited to holidays, though that is a common catalyst for capacity concerns. To overcome these problems, first look at your historical data and identify the peaks and valleys that your company experiences. Plan staffing out from there and then focus on the trickier issues that go beyond normal business fluctuations. In this ebook, you’ll learn: How to solve staffing issues to handle your baseline volume How to overcome outdated technology that causes bad experiences Understand the best tools to solve seasonal capacity issues

Despite the greater frequency of extreme weather events occurring around the globe, freight still has to be delivered on time and on a year-round basis. Truck drivers often find themselves driving through rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, ice, thunderstorms, tornadoes and high winds. While drivers aren't generally expected to stick to pre-planned routes in extreme weather, fleet managers don’t really have the capacity to outline every possible alternate route in anticipation of a future hazardous weather scenario. Data-driven route planning saves fuel, prevents accidents and improves ETAs, which is why many logistics companies are turning to advanced supply chain optimization solutions with real-time weather alerts and rerouting functionalities. Today, tech-savvy fleet managers are looking for exactly this type of tech innovations to provide them with a sharp competitive edge in an already crowded industry such as long-haul logistics. As one of the world's leading location platforms, HER

Find out how Red Hat® CloudForms gives IT administrators and managers a comprehensive solution to optimize their virtual, private cloud, and hybrid cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and sophisticated resource management capabilities.

The explosion in IT demand has intensified pressure on data center resources, making it difficult to respond to business needs, especially while budgets remain flat. As capacity demands become increasingly unpredictable, calculating the future needs of the data center becomes ever more difficult. The challenge is to build a data center that will be functional, highly efficient and cost-effective to operate over its 10-to-20-year lifespan. Facilities that succeed are focusing on optimization, flexibility and planning—infusing agility through a modular data center design.

This paper explores the business benefits that contractors can gain by adopting field workforce scheduling & optimization technologies.

Despite the greater frequency of extreme weather events occurring around the globe, freight still has to be delivered on time and on a year-round basis. Truck drivers often find themselves driving through rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, ice, thunderstorms, tornadoes and high winds. While drivers aren't generally expected to stick to pre-planned routes in extreme weather, fleet managers don’t really have the capacity to outline every possible alternate route in anticipation of a future hazardous weather scenario. Data-driven route planning saves fuel, prevents accidents and improves ETAs, which is why many logistics companies are turning to advanced supply chain optimization solutions with real-time weather alerts and rerouting functionalities. Today, tech-savvy fleet managers are looking for exactly this type of tech innovations to provide them with a sharp competitive edge in an already crowded industry such as long-haul logistics. As one of the world's leading location platforms, HER

Despite the greater frequency of extreme weather events occurring around the globe, freight still has to be delivered on time and on a year-round basis. Truck drivers often find themselves driving through rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, ice, thunderstorms, tornadoes and high winds. While drivers aren't generally expected to stick to pre-planned routes in extreme weather, fleet managers don’t really have the capacity to outline every possible alternate route in anticipation of a future hazardous weather scenario. Data-driven route planning saves fuel, prevents accidents and improves ETAs, which is why many logistics companies are turning to advanced supply chain optimization solutions with real-time weather alerts and rerouting functionalities. Today, tech-savvy fleet managers are looking for exactly this type of tech innovations to provide them with a sharp competitive edge in an already crowded industry such as long-haul logistics. As one of the world's leading location platforms, HER

Do projects seem to appear out of nowhere? Do you find yourself scrambling to pull together reports for executives? Download this free guide and learn about several project portfolio management pitfalls and how AtTask can help you avoid them.

Understand which questions to address and which analytics to capture to improve the ease, speed, and accuracy of moving to the public cloud and to ensure cost-performance optimization of your in-cloud deployment on an ongoing basis.

As you think about migrating to the public cloud, it’s challenging to know where to start. This guide discusses 10 key considerations to address as you think about moving to the cloud and serves as a framework to help you understand which critical decisions you need to make.

When studies indicate that around 70 per cent of an organisation’s data is usually ROT – redundant, obsolete or trivia – it makes no sense to leave it taking up expensive primary storage space. By downloading Redstor’s new Storage Analyser, you take the first step towards better capacity planning and cutting primary storage costs. It allows you to find out what space would be freed up if inactive data was offloaded to the cloud. Download the FREE Storage Analyser here today.

Learn how to scale MySQL databases with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively scale to an infinite number of users, with NO disruption to your existing infrastructure.

Learn how Mozilla is able to cost-effectively scale out their new Firefox mobile operating system App Store (running MySQL) to an infinite number of users, while increasing performance.

Technology analyst firm 451 Research offers a brief overview of ScaleBase’s Data Traffic Manager software for dramatic scaling of MySQL databases beyond the capabilities of MySQL 5.6.

Allocating Resources for Business Success

vExpert Eric Siebert provides key insights into capacity planning and why it’s important.

The ability to observe, diagnose, and subsequently improve the performance of business-critical applications is essential to ensuring a positive user experience and maintaining the highest levels of employee productivity and customer satisfaction. The challenge of establishing an effective application visibility and control function is only growing, as trends such as mobility, virtualization, and cloud computing fundamentally alter datacenter and application architectures. With NetScaler Insight Center enterprises get: • Unparalleled application visibility and invaluable operational intelligence; • Increased operational efficiency, as troubleshooting and capacity planning efforts are greatly simplified; • An optimized user experience that drives greater employee productivity and customer satisfaction; • Increased assurance that governing SLAs will always be met; and, • Reduced total cost of ownership, based on having a low-cost, low-impact solution—particularly compared to traditional

Identify the right NPMD tools to detect application issues, identify root causes and perform capacity planning.

Learn what instrumentation helps calculate your data center power efficiency and how to set standards to align with the Green Grid.

This white paper explores the challenges of increasing computing power in resource-constrained physical spaces and data centers experiencing high growth. We also explore how intelligent rack PDUs can meet these challenges and address critical uptime and capacity planning issues.

Before selecting an approach or tool for capacity planning, or when reevaluating your current one, read this whitepaper and consider the best practices that many successful companies have adopted.

Enterprises that adopt a proactive approach to IT resource capacity planning, using the most advanced methods and tools available, are ensuring that their IT environments are right-sized to enable corporate growth and improve company performance.

802.11ac is well on its way to becoming the standard for next-generation Wi-Fi. The gigabit speed, improved capacity and reliability that 802.11ac brings to wireless LANs (WLANs) are amplified as mobile users, devices and application usage continue to grow rapidly. Whether you are an early adopter who has already started planning, or like several organizations, unsure of your next step, download this five step guide to help you prepare and plan for a successful migration to an 802.11ac WLAN.

The key to successful sales forecasting starts with pipeline measurement — consistent tracking in each stage of the sales cycle will bring consistent results. Careful focus on ?ve areas will strengthen the sales forecast process to drive better capacity planning, smoother operations, and most importantly, more revenue! The five metrics for every sales leader: Accuracy Variance Pipeline Coverage & Mix Compliance & Commitments Linearity Download now to learn more!

Today’s K-12 schools are hungry for bandwidth. The reason is clear: highperforming, reliable and easily expanded network services support the latest classroom innovations, including videoconferencing, 1:1 computing, distance learning and modern learning management systems. It’s no surprise then that progressive educators now see a direct link between the overall success of their school districts and access to high-capacity networks. This emerged as a clear trend in new research by the Center for Digital Education (CDE) — a commanding 98 percent of administrators and IT representatives said the future of K-12 education hinges on ubiquitous connectivity. This white paper lays a framework for planning and implementing high-performance networks. In addition to explaining why now’s the time to plan network upgrades, this paper answers one of the fundamental questions asked by IT managers at schools everywhere: “How much network capacity will we actually need?”