Staying ahead with capacity planning
Capacity planning was vital to upholding operations not long ago, and it’s still critical for traditional on-premises IT. In a world of hybrid multi-cloud computing, swift and precise predictions on the growth of the computing and networking capacity are still mandatory when hardware acquisition takes weeks and costs a lot. In the cloud computing era, and with the virtualization of many hardware functions, the importance of capacity planning is shifting from business survival to cost optimization.
Even with per-use payment and virtually unlimited resources available to businesses using hyperscalers, there is a growing concern in terms of cloud infrastructure costs and pricing models. Having a good idea of how the application workload expands (and how fast) is a standard way of planning for new virtual machines, clusters, or serverless environments. Reserving cloud services beforehand is suitable for staying prepared but also optimizes...