Archive for April, 2006

Cost Recovery by Design

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Dominique Heger & Philip Carinhas, Fortuitous Technologies Inc
Summary: Costs of performance and capacity planning are often recovered many fold and fast.
Intro
Often seen as an extra expense, performance and capacity planning often saves a project more money in the long run. Costs are usually recovered by the completion of the [...]

The Vicious Cycle of Performance Costs

Monday, April 17th, 2006

See the full articleAbstractAbstractDominique A. Heger, Fortuitous Technologies, Austin, TX, dom(at)fortuitous.com
Abstract
In today’s parallel, heterogeneous, and interconnected IT landscape, predicting and controlling the cost factors surrounding systems performance and capacity planning may seem overwhelming to many organizations. For larger IT projects, it is not uncommon to experience scenarios where the cost factors for performance tuning and [...]