Capacity Management in a Cloud Environment
Like many in 2020, I found myself working exclusively from home and having a bit more time on my hands in the evenings. I was much more fortunate than many as I had my whole family at home, and we were all working or studying remotely. I decided that I wanted to make something of the time in isolation (those of us trained in physics may remember Isaac Newton’s productive period in 1665 when he left London for the countryside during a plague outbreak). My team does database cloud capacity management in a converged, VMware environment. My theory was that the public cloud providers faced capacity management issues similar to the ones that we were solving. So our team attended the various online vendor conferences and took a lot of online training (one good thing that came out of 2020) to see if the larger cloud world was experiencing similar problems and what we might be able to learn to make our analyses and processes better. After listening to what cloud providers were seeing wi