Capacity planning an essential tool for managing Web services

Capacity planning addresses the unpredictable workload of an e-business to produce a competitive and cost-effective architecture and system. Many possible alternative architectures can implement a Web service; one must determine the most cost-effective architecture and system. This is where a quantitative approach and capacity planning techniques come into play. Capacity planning offers much more than just performance prediction, it is actually a powerful technique for managing Web services.