Capacity, Management, and Performance

Performance Management and Capacity Planning for Mainframe Oracle Systems

This paper describes the author’s experiences in performance management and capacity planning for Oracle applications on OS/390 mainframes. The special performance considerations and problems in mainframe Oracle implementations are covered, together with the ways in which those systems can be configured for optimum performance. A real-life case study is used to illustrate the required data sour...

Strategic capacity management: meeting technological demands and performance criteria

Although manufacturing determines mostly the current performance of companies, few companies deal systematically with the issues related to strategic capacity management. Besides decisions on outsourcing and acquisition of resources, this involves triggering process innovation, process development and improving performance by adapting organisational structures. Action research in companies reve...

Performance Management and Capacity Planning for Microsoft SQL Server

This paper describes the author’s experiences in performance management and capacity planning for systems based on Microsoft’s SQL Server database management product. The paper covers SQL Server database design, the resource consumption and performance data sources that are available, the way in which a monitoring regime was established, and the important areas that were addressed when tuning f...

Strategic Capacity Management: Balancing Technological Demands and Performance Criteria

Although manufacturing determines mostly the current performance of companies, few companies deal with the issues related to strategic capacity management. Besides decisions on outsourcing, this involves triggering process development and improving performance by adapting organisational structures. Action Research in companies reveals the importance of capacity management at a strategic level. ...

Performance Assured by Capacity Management: Experience Refined Through ITIL Practice