Wednesday, January 21, 2009

What is Capacity Planning?

Capacity planning is a method of identifying how much resource is required to meet service demands now, as well as in the future. In supporting capacity planning and performance monitoring, IT organizations are really evaluating the service levels they provide, which are decided by customer expectations. This discipline is of huge advantage to IT Managers and Business Firms in their respective areas.

Capacity PlanningIT Managers
  • Business unit managers will receive capacity status as well as application performance report in business terms

  • Helps in providing the management objective proof of the infrastructure upgrades which are required
  • Saves energy consumption by virtualizing and consolidating servers
  • Helps move to latest technology with confidence and efficiency
  • Helps meet Service Level Agreements (SLA) without the wastage of money or consumption of space associated with over-provisioning
  • Fixes performance issues and ends firefighting
  • Helps face IT problems before they become bigger

Business Firms

  • Efficient processes, better utilization of capacity as well as better control over costs helps in decreasing costs
  • The revenue of the company sees an increase due to better productivity, greater responsiveness to market dynamics, higher return on existing investment in IT, decreased downtime, improved response time as well as maximum appication availability

Capacity planning, hence, also has a huge impact in supporting the business alignment with IT in the following ways:

  • Showing the business needs for infrastructure upgrades

  • Helping in saving energy through optimization of requirement of power

  • IT service management within the business

  • Minimizing costs and maximizing productivity through optimal purchasing decisions

  • In disaster recovery plans, capacity planning helps in handling workloads after a catastrophe at data centers

Friday, January 16, 2009

Tevron gives its website a face-lift to add further user-friendly features

Tevron - Application MonitoringNashua, USA January 16, 2009 – Tevron®, a global software company (www.tevron.com), that develops and delivers APM and business service monitoring solutions, announced the launch of its revamped website with more user friendly features and easy navigation tools. The site is verified by W3C validator. Customers will notice an immediate ease of use compared to the old site. They can request more information about services and learn about possible solutions. The new site also allows visitors to read more about the company.

Tevron® is a privately owned company that offers a comprehensive suite of end to end performance, Application Monitoring Solutions, SLA and Automated Testing Solutions. They are headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Tevron’s robust technology prowess makes it possible for every application across the entire enterprise to be actively monitored and tested. This includes web applications, client server applications, legacy applications, Citrix hosted applications, and Terminal Services hosted applications. It products CitraTest APM, CitraTest VU and CitraTest are globally renowned and their clientele include the Forbes 500 companies.

About Tevron - Tevron is a global leader in APM and Automated Testing. Through its all-encompassing customer-centric vision and advanced technology, its APM and Testing Solutions allow the unique flexibility of supporting every application across the enterprise with one methodology, delivering the ability to test, monitor, enforce SLAs and optimize performance with confidence and ease. Tevron has successfully delivered monitoring solutions that support every IT enterprise applications to hundreds of customers worldwide. Founded in 2001, Tevron is a global organization and is privately held. Tevron’s vast and diverse range of customers are global leaders and include companies such as Citigroup, DaimlerChrysler, Alcon, USPTO, Siemens, DeuBa, Lockheed Martin and hundreds of others .