PROGNOSTIC CAPACITY MANAGEMENT FROM AN IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE

Thomas Jirku, Peter Reichl

2008

Abstract

Maintaining the balance between keeping the IT continuously running and at the same time enhancing the quality of the services and responding with increasing agility towards changing business needs under the usual budget constraints is one of the core challenges for IT service management. Over the last years, ITIL has become the de facto standard best practice recommendation for this purpose. Among the 10 different ITIL disciplines, capacity management is one of the most important ones. However, the ITIL perspective is restricted towards describing the current state of an IT system. In this paper, we propose to go a step ahead and turn capacity management into a proactive discipline for managing IT infrastructure. To this end, we discuss requirements on a platform-independent capacity data base and present a case study which shows how to simplify its performance evaluation through an approximation approach. Finally, we draw a couple of practical conclusions and describe further steps towards a capacity management which allows to deal proactively with potential problems and bottlenecks.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jirku T. and Reichl P. (2008). PROGNOSTIC CAPACITY MANAGEMENT FROM AN IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 320-325. DOI: 10.5220/0001710603200325

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Thomas Jirku and Peter Reichl},
title={PROGNOSTIC CAPACITY MANAGEMENT FROM AN IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={320-325},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001710603200325},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - PROGNOSTIC CAPACITY MANAGEMENT FROM AN IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Jirku T.
AU - Reichl P.
PY - 2008
SP - 320
EP - 325
DO - 10.5220/0001710603200325