7.3. A Capacity Planning Situation
An online auto-buying service just launched its site and is seeing the number of requests to the site grow at a very fast rate. While this is good news, management is concerned that pretty soon performance may degrade and customers may move to other sites. In particular, management is considering several new initiatives, described below, and they want to know how these initiatives will impact the IT infrastructure. Answers to questions such as "Will the IT infrastructure support an increase in traffic?" "What kind of changes should be done in the IT infrastructure to support new services and new business models?" "Will there be very large delays?" "Will there be a need to upgrade the configuration?" "How? By ...
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