Capacity Planning
– The process of predicting when a computer hardware system
becomes saturated.
– To ensures that the firm has enough computing power for its
current and future needs.
• The maximum number of users that the system can accommodate at
one time;
• The impact of existing and future software applications;
• Performance measures, such as minimum response time for
processing business transactions.
– For example, the Nasdaq Stock Market performs ongoing
capacity planning to identify peaks in the volume of stock trading
transactions and to ensure it has enough computing capacity to
handle large surges in volume when trading is very heavy.