Ops Mgt Info Systems

As we have noted on a variety of occasions, it usually takes technology to manage technology. This is particularly true in the area of evaluating the capacity of information technologies to meet the demands placed upon them. The Case for this module looks at some aspects of this problem.

Read this information on capacity planning:

TeamQuest (2010) How to do capacity planning, Retrieved from http://www.teamquest.com/import/pdfs/whitepaper/tqwp23.pdf

Franklin (2011) IOPS: Performance Capacity Planning Explained. Synology. Retrieved Nov. 8, 2010, from http://blog.synology.com/blog/?p=146

But along with everything else in information technology, things are getting more and more complicated by the transfer of computing resources into “the cloud”—the online world where you don’t own your computing environment but simply inhabit it for a while. Here’s a recent take on that issue:

Golden, B. (2011) Cloud makes Capacity Planning Harder—3 Fight-Back Tips. CIO Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2011, from http://www.cio.com/article/654471/Cloud_Makes_Capacity_Planning_Harder_3_Fight_Back_Tips

After reading these articles and reviewing other information from the Background and other sources, prepare a 3- to 5-page paper on the following topic:

Does a company need computer capacity evaluation when its computing power has been transferred to cloud-based systems?