AWIC is pleased to announce the launch of our new product, AWIC Desktop.
It’s a subscription-based IT service that brings the following benefits to companies:
- Reduce costly on-site computer hardware
- Lower your electricity bill
- Plan your annual IT budget
- Protect your data from fire, flood or theft
- Simplify your IT
- Work from anywhere
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by Amanda Dahl, Director at AWIC
Good capacity planning is worth the effort
The benefits of an effective capacity management programme are well known to most IT departments. Proper capacity management allows you to:
- Reduce infrastructure costs by sweating your assets
- Meet agreed service levels by avoiding capacity-related outages
- Accurately budget for infrastructure growth by projecting future requirements
- Avoid project delays by having appropriate resources on-hand
And, by now, most IT departments have some form of capacity planning tool implemented which can give them fairly accurate reports on current and past usage.
But what are you doing with those reports? Who attends your capacity planning meetings? And do you have a dedicated capacity planning manager?
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Tags: best practice, budgeting, business alignment, capacity planning, ITIL
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