Capacity management's goal is to ensure that information technology resources are sufficient to meet upcoming business requirements cost-effectively.
As the usage of IT services change and functionality evolves, the amount of central processing units (CPUs), memory and storage to a physical or virtual server etc.
As data is broken into component parts (often known frames, packets, or segments) for transmission, several factors can affect their delivery.
Various intelligent solutions are available to ensure that traffic over the network is effectively managed to optimize performance for all users.
The future of network management is a radically expanding area of development, according to Terry Slattery on June 10, 2021: "We're starting to see more analytics of network data at levels that weren’t possible 10-15 years ago, due to limitations that no longer exist in computing, memory, storage, and algorithms.