Capacity Management
What is Capacity Management?
The process of ensuring that IT resources and infrastructure are sufficient to meet current and future business requirements.
Terms that appear alongside capacity management
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as capacity management. The number is how many controls name both.
- change management 6 shared controls
- hardening 3 shared controls
- system hardening 3 shared controls
- malware 3 shared controls
- problem management 2 shared controls
- release management 2 shared controls
- it service management 2 shared controls
- configuration management 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern capacity management
What the standards actually require on capacity management
Requirements naming capacity management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Give the cloud customer, so far as the service model permits, the means to monitor and steer the system resources allocated to it, so the customer can prevent resource contention and sustain adequate performance.
C5-OPS-03 · Capacity Management - Controlling of Resources →Management implements capacity management integrated with budgeting and strategic planning that addresses internal factors such as growth, mergers, new products and technologies and external factors such as customer preferences, competitors and market requirem...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::AIO-VI.B.6 · VI.B.6 Capacity Management (Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations) →Capacity requirements for human, technical, information and financial resources are determined, documented and maintained, taking account of service and performance requirements. Capacity planning covers current and forecast capacity based on demand;
iso-iec-20000-1-2018::8.4.3 · 8.4.3 Capacity management →Maintenance and capacity management activities are performed for all assets within the function, planned to minimise operational impact and support availability.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::ARCHITECTURE-3i · ARCHITECTURE-3i: Maintenance and capacity management for all assets →Resource use is monitored and tuned, and future capacity needs are projected, so that systems perform as required. As an Annex A reference control it is compared with the controls chosen in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicabilit...
iso-27001-2013::A.12.1.3 · Capacity management →Resource use is to be monitored and adjusted to fit present and expected capacity needs. Purpose (stated in ISO/IEC 27002:2022): keeps enough capacity available in systems, staff, offices and other facilities.
iso-27001-2022::8.6 · Capacity management →Questions people ask about capacity management
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