Business-Oriented Capacity Planning of IT Infrastructure to Handle Load Surges

— This work proposes a business-oriented approach to designing IT infrastructure in an e-commerce context subject to load surges. The main difference between the proposed approach and conventional ones is that it includes the negative business impact – loss – incurred due to IT infrastructure failures and performance degradation. The approach minimizes the sum of infrastructure cost and business losses, rather than only considering infrastructure cost. A complete example scenario shows the value of the method.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: NOMS
• Authors: Filipe Marques, Jacques Philippe Sauvé, Antão Moura
• Keywords: Infrastructure Cost, Infrastructure Failures, IT Infrastructure, NOMS 2006