Last-minute hardware, software, or network changes can have a detrimental impact on budgeting, planning, and project schedules. Whether you are stabilizing your current storage environment, planning for new projects, or reengineering your data center, you need to understand the implications for your infrastructure and the resulting effects on your IT budget and customers. These impacts could include response times, services costs, service level agreements, and others. Chi Corporation's Capacity Planning service helps you avoid unplanned downtime, lapses in protection, and unexpected expenditures by periodically determining and documenting projected growth, and clearly defining the time-phased resources needed to support it.

Chi Corporation and partner consultants analyze current and future storage capacity and requirements. Analysis includes projected rates of growth at all data centers, as well as peak storage requirements and trends. After a thorough review of the computing environment and business plans, consultants work with your staff to plan capacity needs. Capacity Planning is also available as a recurring service, with quarterly or biannual checks to keep pace as your business environment evolves.