Importance of Availability and Capacity Management in an Organization

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Introduction
• Availability and Capacity Management remains
critical to the success of the organization.
• As seen in the Citibank, the failure of sufficient availability
management resulted in various negative effects.
• Thus, this paper analyses the case of Citibank to
appreciate the importance of availability and capacity
management in an organization.

Consequences Of Inadequate Availability And
Capacity Management
• Poor Incident Management: Information
Technology (IT) operations perform unnecessary
unplanned tasks because of non-predicted performance
concerns that affect vital applications, rather than
forecasting, planning before and utilizing resources
effectively.

Consequences Of Inadequate Availability And
Capacity Management Cont.
• Lack of cost-reduction: The lack of availability and
capacity management leads to oversized applications in
the datacentre which leads to increased cost to the
organization. Such applications reserve more resources
compared to what they really required.