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.

IT 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

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

Nashua, 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 .

What is Application Availability ?

Application availability is the inclination of an application to handle end user requests and to return timely and accurate responses. As business becomes increasingly dependent on information technology, application availability is a universal concern for every business, in every IT infrastructure. The need for system availability extends across all components of a network. But nowhere the availability of a system is more obvious to users or more analytical of the competence of IT managers than at the application level. The function of application availability is to meet business needs. For today’s business-critical applications, enterprises require robust, proven solutions for application performance and IT monitoring. They must be confident that they are protected, not only against physical server failures, but also from outages that affect individual virtual servers and the applications running inside them.

Web-based business applications have become an essential component of every business. These applications are mission-critical, executing various organizational business processes. Whether it is a pure Web-based multi-tier application or a front end to an existing ERP or legacy system, the availability of the application and the content of transaction output need to be monitored all time, to ensure the reliable and correct operation of the business processes. Tevron’s CitraTest APM provides a way to quickly, efficiently, and discreetly monitor the application availability, reliability, and application performance as well as capture the hard-to-get URL-to-SQL application metrics. It presents these important metrics in a manner that enables hard communication and rapid proactive or reactive detection, correction, and verification throughout the application lifecycle. By using CitraTest APM, the availability of the application has increased and improved by a few percentage points so that thousand man-hours of down-time is saved and hence results in millions of dollars in improved efficiency throughout the organization.

Through the use of Tevron’s CitraTest APM, IT Administrators can better monitor access and performance and cost effectively run IT in alignment with company objectives. As a result, Business Managers can boost up IT Performance that helps achieve the business goals through increased IT efficiency and profitability.