It can be calibrated to give months of warning, if need be. Ultimately, companies realize that if the capacity isn't there to support the services, they'll end up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. ForeCAST provides this vital information with ample notice in a simple and accurate format, Hampton notes. Two products in one ForeCAST Resource Manager will be available in two versions, one for Internet access, and one for E-commerce. The Net access version predicts future capacity requirements to sustain performance levels for IP services, including dial and dedicated Internet access, VPNs, and dedicated WAN bandwidth.
Reports are available by resource type, critical time period, or location.
It can also determine when a WAN link or an Ethernet switch port will reach specified levels of saturation. Scenario swapping Because precise capacity planning requires a highly granular compilation of network traffic data, Clairvoyant has combined a distributed architecture along with its own patent-pending methodology to gather and store utilization data for each resource every 30 seconds. Users of ForeCAST can select saturation values that can be set between zero and 99 minutes per day for each resource. Pricing, availability, etc. ForeCAST Resource Manager for e-Commerce will be available later in Q1 of this year.