Guerrilla Capacity Planning
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-06557-6 (ISBN)
In these days of shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are often seen by management as tending to inflate their production schedules. Rather than giving up in the face of this kind of relentless pressure to get things done faster, Guerrilla Capacity Planning facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements based on the opportunistic use of whatever performance data and tools are available in such a way that management insight is expanded but their schedules are not.
A key Guerrilla concept is tactical planning whereby short-range planning questions and projects are brought up in team meetings such that management is compelled to know the answer, and therefore buys into capacity planning without recognizing it as such. Once you have your "foot in the door", capacity planning methods can be refined in an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of Capacity Planning". Another unique Guerrilla tool is Virtual Load Testing, based on Dr. Gunther's "Universal Law of Computational Scaling", which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.
Neil Gunther, M.Sc., Ph.D. is a leading industry computer performance consultant who founded Performance Dynamics Company (www.perfdynamics.com) in 1994. Prior to that, Dr. Gunther held research and management positions at San Jose State University, JPL/NASA (Voyager and Galileo spacecraft), Xerox PARC research center and Pyramid/Siemens Technology. His performance and capacity planning classes have been presented at such organizations as Boeing, Fedex, Motorola, Stanford University, and Sun Microsystems. Dr. Gunther is the author of over a hundred papers on computer performance topics, including "HIT-AND-RUN TACTICS ENABLE GUERRILLA CAPACITY PLANNING," published recently in IEEE IT Professional magazine. He has also written the book THE PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE ANALYST (iUniverse.com 2000). In 1996 he was awarded Best Technical Paper at CMG, and in 1997 was nominated for the A.A. Michelson Award. Dr. Gunther is a member of the AMS, ACM, CMG, IEEE, SAGE-AU, SIGMETRICS and USENIX.
What Is Guerrilla Capacity Planning?.- ITIL for Guerrillas.- Damaging Digits in Capacity Calculations.- Scalability-A Quantitative Approach.- Evaluating Scalability Parameters.- Software Scalability.- Fundamentals of Virtualization.- Web Site Planning.- Gargantuan Computing-GRIDs and P2P.- Internet Planning.- Going Guerrilla-A Case Study.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.2.2010 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XX, 253 p. 108 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium |
| Schlagworte | Capacity Planning • Internet • ITIL • Load Testing • Management • Meeting • Meetings • Performance • Performance Analysis • Planning • Risk Management • Scala • Software • System Scalability • Website Planning |
| ISBN-10 | 3-642-06557-0 / 3642065570 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-642-06557-6 / 9783642065576 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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