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Controlling Cloud Costs with Capacity Management

Read on to learn what it means to extend capacity management to the cloud and how it differs from traditional on-premise capacity management.

For many organizations the move to a cloud-first IT strategy has already taken place. In fact, today’s typical IT department has a minority of their apps and platforms residing in on-premises data centers. With the increasing use of cloud environments, it’s key to ensure you’re managing and optimizing your cloud resources as you would with on-premises resources. Across both cloud and on-premises resources, capacity management informs forecasting and planning by helping you determine the capacity levels for your environment, including compute configurations, storage, database, and network bandwidth – as well as the most cost-effective way to provision them.