Estimating the Future Cost of Application Maintenance
Last updated on July 22, 2021
Selection of right configuration for the deployment of the application and deriving optimal performance at lower costs is the ultimate goal of the capacity planning team
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Forecasting the future cost of application maintenance is an even more daunting task in today’s cloud based environments. Furthermore, application evolution is extremely difficult to factor into costing estimates. The majority of cost issues are caused by enhancements in functionality as the application develops over time. Without reliable application maintenance cost estimation, your business will be unable to accurately assess the total cost of software ownership.
As the performance and productivity of business applications are dependent on their maintainability, organizations need to forecast the future cost of application maintenance. In addition, it’s important for the capacity management and planning team to envisage application maintenance requirements to provision resources accordingly.
Selection of right configuration for the deployment of the application and deriving optimal performance at lower costs is the ultimate goal of the capacity planning team. Here are a handful of items to consider:
- What is the best configuration wherein the application works at optimal levels
- Expected quality of work when the I/O system is upgraded
- The impact of system when 100+ users are added
- Does an upgrade work well with the current hardware
- The timeframe for upgrading the hardware
All these aspects come into the application maintenance phase. Even though you work in a cloud-based environment, these issues are still to be addressed in order to generate the proper budgeting for application maintenance.
In a traditional setup, where only a fraction of the system resources are used, you can calculate the total number of physical systems and plan accordingly. In a private cloud computing network, there are additional things to consider. Each system is virtualized into multiple servers to leverage the resource to a maximum extent. While this approach improves the performance and decreases Capital Expenditure (Capex) and Operating Expenditure (Opex), provisioning accurate resources is challenging.
Having a capacity calculator is essential in accurately forecasting the future costs of running applications. The capacity calculator collects performance metrics, resource usage and predicts future resource consumptions to come up with a timeframe for each component of the system. Yohttp://www.2x.com/blog/wp-admin/post-new.phpu should be able to modify workload configurations, or hardware, to check various configurations that can suit your budgets. Based on this report, you can effectively plan for the future application capacity requirements of the business.
2X Software offers a useful capacity management and planning tool within their award winning product, 2X Remote Application Server. This virtual desktop and application delivery solution enables you to understand resource usage trends, performance metrics and effectively predict future resource requirements. Designed using cutting-edge technologies, 2X Remote Application Server not only leverages your resources, but also helps you to understand where your business is trending in terms of performance, service levels and budget. Download 2X Remote Application Server and start forecasting your application maintenance today!