Capacity Planning
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matching supply to demand — too much demand causes slowdowns and outages, too much supply means overpaying
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areas
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people — call center/support staffing; too few means recruiting, too many means redeployment or downsizing
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technology — choosing services that can scale (web services distributed across servers, clustered/split database services, on-demand cloud resources)
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infrastructure — the underlying framework (CPU, network, storage); physical devices take longer to provision than cloud-based ones
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