Application Capacity Planning (consultancy service)

Get an accurate prediction of how a new application will perform on your infrastructure

Application capacity planning enables organizations to model and size new applications, new versions of applications or infrastructure software to be deployed.

Overview

Application Capacity Planning (ACP) is part of a suite of consulting services under the Application Centric Network banner and is particularly important when your organization is in the application development or early pre-deployment phase.

The benefits of this consulting service are often inter-related to other consulting services. By coupling complementary consulting services together, the synergistic nature of the ACN suite becomes a very powerful proposition to your organization. In short, the ACP consulting service is best viewed as part of greater holistic approach rather than an individual service.

Although the Application Capacity Planning focus tends to be on pre-deployment of an application, it can be applied at any stage of the application deployment lifecycle.

Benefits

Benefits of Application Capacity Planning include:

Allows you to plan ahead regarding application capacity requirements
Saves money by providing access to application capacity planning tools without investing in such tools
Enables you to thoroughly test the impact of a new application, based on various criteria, without operational impact on a production environment

Features

Features of Application Capacity Planning include:

Provides an accurate prediction of how a new application would perform on your infrastructure
Receive analysis from credible and experienced consultants using proven methodology

Steps in Application Capacity Planning

Application design
Every software development process includes testing phases to ensure that the application is functioning correctly.

Application deployment
Before deploying a new application on the network, a pre-rollout study will identify any major issues relating to the performance of the application to the various sites.

Existing application review
A review of an existing application is often required when changes to the network environment have impacted the application performance. Alternatively, an assessment of an existing application can provide a baseline prior to the implementation of environmental changes.

Application re-qualification
Application re-qualification is often required after new modules have been added or if the application is going through a revision change to ensure user performance will meet business expectations and that network sizing is in line with the changes. Application re-qualification assumes that the application has already been analyzed through the whole design, deployment or operation.

Technical scope
Technically, the ACP consulting service includes the hardware and agents required to analyze the application performance. The technical scope also extends to deploying agent capture software on server and client machines.

Service positioning within the consulting services suite
The ACP consulting service is part of the Application Centric Networking (ACN) suite of consulting services. This suite is designed to provide a complete approach to application performance optimization, monitoring and problem resolution.