| Enterprises that employ a capacity manager do so | | | | requirements in order for management to prepare to fill |
| with an eye to improving how they make use of their | | | | these future needs. As such, it involves the forecasting |
| storage resources. This specialized professional | | | | and trending of these future needs, as well as their |
| enables IT personnel to perform specific activities | | | | prototyping and the determining of their size and |
| relating to how such resources are used. These | | | | scope. |
| activities include service, business and resource | | | | Lastly, storage capacity management also has a |
| capacity management. | | | | dimension for managing resources. As such, this |
| Service capacity management itself encompasses | | | | service seeks to monitor, run, analyze and report on |
| several sub-processes. It involves the monitoring, | | | | how various resource components are being utilized |
| analysis, tuning and reporting of the performance of | | | | by companies. In addition, such initiatives also seek to |
| the current service capacity infrastructure. By doing so, | | | | enable companies to establish profiles and baselines |
| it is able to help manage the demand for such | | | | for the use of particular components. |
| services. In addition, the managers can help resource | | | | These capacity manager processes are employed to |
| management personnel craft profiles and baselines for | | | | work on 'raw materials' - input such as technology, |
| the use of these services. | | | | business and IT plans, and financial plans - in order to |
| Secondly, a capacity manager also enables the | | | | generate necessary output such as effectiveness |
| management of business storage and capacity. This | | | | reviews and capacity reports, in order to help |
| process involves the determining of future business | | | | companies make better use of their resources. |