The task of providing plans and reports to meet current and future business workloads.

The planning of computer resources to insure that workload service-level objectives can be met in the future. The computer resources contemplated in this definition are the CPU, real storage (central and expanded), the paging subsystem and the DASD I/O subsystem.

Planning for storage volume and transmission bandwidth for a PACS.

determining the resource requirements of a given set of business services to ensure that sufficient resources are made available before the services are implemented.

Capacity planning specifies the level of resources (e.g. facilities, fleets, equipment, systems hardware and labour force size) that best supports the enterprise's competitive strategy for production.

A forward-looking activity that monitors the skill sets and effective resource capacity of the organization.

The process of determining the future requirements of a network. An important process, if a network is to function properly and at peak performance, especially when users or equipment is added to the network.