CAPACITY MANAGEMENT MADE EASY

With IT now seen as a business driver rather than as a mere support function, data centre managers are facing the complex task of managing enterprise data centres. The change in how IT is perceived means that the demands on enterprise infrastructure has increased greatly, both in terms of the capacity needed (and its flexibility to meet changing business requirements) and enhanced Quality of Service (QoS). While it is widely acknowledged that the task of managing a diverse IT infrastructure environment is a complex challenge in itself, the realm of capacity planning and management is a whole new proposition. Capacity planning as a discipline is viewed as difficult to perform by many organisations, which believe it requires specialist skills and tools.

However, a new generation of tools that are easy to use and deploy but still provide the detailed information needed are transforming how organisations consider capacity planning. Neptuny has developed a solution that enables the combination of IT infrastructure capacity with business imperatives to create a value proposition that means organisations can use resources more effectively. IT capacity planning requires a planning tool to understand the performance of an organisation’s infrastructure, as well as the business significance of a service, its growth potential, and the level of service required to ensure it is providing value to the line-of-business department. However, combining business metrics and IT data requires a sophisticated approach to the correlation of information.

Neptuny Caplan is a leading Capacity and Virtualization Planning solution for large data centers and networks.
 

Caplan is based on an agent-less, automated and highly-scalable architecture that allows you to manage the whole IT infrastructure, including physical/virtual servers, databases, networks, storage and facilities. By associating capacity needs to business drivers, Caplan can effectively support decisions on how to change your IT infrastructure and cope with expected business growth.