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Should you ever replace a planning assumption?
In the planning cycle, you start off with a load of assumptions. Then observations are made of existing systems, and you might be tempted to say that your assumptions were wrong... but are they? Does...
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Better than average?
How busy is a system? If one could measure a system at the most detailed level, then a system would either be busy doing "something" or it would be idle doing "nothing". Curiously enough, moving from...
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Over the years, the quality of tools available to the Capacity Manager have improved immensely. Little's Law may have been written before the advent of mass computing, but its application is crucial to...
View ArticleIt 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,...
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Hey, You, Get off of my Cloud!
The Cloud. It's amazing. Isn't it wonderful that they have now managed to link all of the computers in the world together so that no matter how much computing power you need it is all there, ready to...
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