Category Archives: Capacity Management

It ain't what you do

It ain’t what you do (its the way that you do it)   Clouds…. Puffy things… stretching as far as the eye can see… limitless. White, wispy clouds that brings thoughts of hazy summer days? Or dark, foreboding, angry clouds … Continue reading

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Should you turn a Blind Eye to known activity?

The concept of a RAG status when monitoring systems and performance is well understood. As the analyst responsible for the system, you set a threshold against a performance metric; be it CPU utilisation, memory, file system, or anything else that … Continue reading

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Queuing Theory with Excel - extra

Only a few days ago, I blithly said The Excel formula of 1/(Poisson(,,false)*exp()/() + Poisson(,,true)*exp() - Poisson(,,false)*exp()) Is equal to Now you have the "tricky" value, all other values in the M/M/c queuing theory are MUCH easier to calculate. It … Continue reading

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