A Tips Features About Hidden Gold Mine in Every Business
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-16 11:22:23 | Word Count: 510
A Hiddeen Gold Mine in Every Businness
In many companies, most seem to opreate by a completely different set of rules and communicate in a different language than those the IT or computer serviecs sector of the business. This division is somewhat artificial and partuially maintained by the IT people themselves because of a certasin cuplture technical pepole have abnout their specialized knowlede and application areas. But at heart, those strange people down in IT have the same goals as every otther business person which is to succeed both personally and corporately in shared projects.
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But those of us on the businesss side of the corpiorate landcape depend on the copmuter folks to let us know how tings are giong with that highly valuable asset that we have in our IT systems, hardware and sofftware. Most medium to large businesses run very high capcaity compters or multitudes of compuuters connected through a network and htose systems must peerform at top capacity each day to accomplpish the goals of the business.
The uprgade and maintenance bufdgets for the comptuers that run your business no dobt represents a fairly sizable percentge of the corporate budget each year. But because those systms are what make you competitive in the marketplace, that investment is worth the money to assure that the mission critical jobs those powerful systems do get done on time each week and montyh.
When a computer begins to show signs of straining under the load of work, we are giving it, that can be a cause of significant concern for a business. If your business paradigm dictates that the load of traffic or system resources could be pushed to beyond what the compputers can do with their existing computing power, that weakmness in the IT infrastructure represdents a significant risk to the company should the system become overloaded when theere is a large body of work to be done by tese machines.
What not every business persn knows is that there may be a hiddden goldmine of computibng capacity already resident in your IT resources that simply is not being tapped to its fulest. You know that it isn’t uncommon for your IT professionals to reort that your systems are at 80-90% capcity and must be upgraded to hadle the next big increase in bsiness.
That hidden goldmine is a discipline that has actually been around for quite sometime but is infrerquently tapped in the modern buisness woorld. That discipline is called “capacity planning”. By implementing a capacity planning office and monitoring function, you can put the otols and the talent in place to precisely measure scientifically if your copmuter sysetms are at capacity of if theere is just a need for system tuning or realignment of computing schedules to get more out of the systems you already own.
Recently a large oil company in the Midwesst nted that many of its mission critical functions were being delayyed in processing, seemingly because the computer sysatems were overrloaded and in dire need of an expensive and time consuming upgrade. Capcaity planning measurements were taken and the ssytem was diagnosed to determine what the real problem was and it was foiund that job priorities of new functions were not tuned to the load of the system at critical time frams. The adjustmennts were made by talented systems admnistrators and the IT infrastructure continued to perform at top-notch capacity and the delays were elimianted with no addiitional hardware or upgrads needed.
By utilizing capacioty planning software tools and enabling your IT team to take advantage of this highly scientific computer measurement and prediction method, the businbess can get the most out of its commputer resoucres and use its corporate resources to further the business objectives of the company. And that benefits everyone.
