The Blue Group

222 Spring Street

Carrollton, Georgia 30117

 

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Capacity Planning Services

 

Situation: A new business application or a number of sites are being added into an organization’s network mix. The IT staff believes that the new application or locations will not adversely affect existing network performance and availability because they are not currently experiencing any performance problems. How do they know for sure?

Shortly after implementation the organization’s Help Desk is flooded with calls from users complaining of poor response times from sites and applications that were "not affected" by the new implementation. What do you do now?

Capacity problems have no quick fix. It can take two to three months or more to redesign the network, to obtain funding and to implement the changes. Poor performance can directly affect your organization’s ability to do its work, which can result in lower productivity, higher costs, and customer dissatisfaction. By this time your credibility as an infrastructure service provider to your organization is in question.

 

Blue Group Solution: Proactively identifying capacity requirements is paramount to providing acceptable network service levels to your customers. Our Capacity Planning & Modeling services assist organizations with transforming new application and location rollout plans into infrastructure impact requirements.

We provide services that:

· Review existing network design and capacity utilization of key indicators from routers, bridges, switches, hubs and WAN links

· Analyze business objectives and application availability and performance requirements

· Develop new usage pattern estimates

· Model the affect of the additional traffic patterns on existing capacity

· Develop recommendations and cost estimates to meet the new requirements

 

Deliverables:

· Documented infrastructure capacity recommendations that address the business and application objectives

· Bill of materials and cost estimates for implementing the recommendations

 

Results:

· Supporting documentation for financial justification if capacity levels need to be increased

· Piece of mind of knowing what capacity levels are required to successfully execute the new rollout without adversely affecting the performance and availability of existing applications and locations.

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