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Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

Manzoor has worked on capacity and performance management projects for some of the largest ICT systems in the UK, at companies such as BT, Level 3 Communications and Syntegra. Manzoor's achievements include building capacity models, which helped automate the capacity plan process time for a large ISP reducing cycle-time from several months to several days, and building a predictive performance model for a large system integrator at bid stage, which helped the system integrator re-negotiate the SLA response times. Manzoor's key skill areas are creating volumetric forecast models, building predictive capacity and performance models for ICT systems, and capacity planning and performance analysis of ICT systems. Manzoor's professional qualifications include the ITIL Foundation Certificate in Service Management (V2 and V3) and the Capacity Management Practitioner's Certificate.

Recent Posts

07th November 2019 by 
Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

It feels a bit like last-minute Christmas shopping — that frantic scramble to find a less than impressive gift. Only in this case, it's not too late to delight the business with an impressive performance over the...

29th October 2019 by 
Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

Until recently, major investments in hardware and software were signed off by the board as one-off CAPEX purchases. But the rise in public cloud use means there’s been a significant shift in the way services are...

18th September 2019 by 
Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

Let me begin by saying that I’m impressed by the work McKinsey has done on cloud adoption. The article I’m focusing on is quite right to assert that ‘companies tend to fall into the trap of confusing simply moving...

18th June 2018 by 
Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

We have worked with many clients to help reduce or control their AWS cloud costs. Across our engagements, we have seen 5 recurring challenges to cloud cost control:

14th December 2017 by 
Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

1) Use more than one measure for SLA response time

There may be a scenario where the service provider can meet either an average or a percentile response time target, but not both. In this case, the customer may...

01st November 2017 by 
Dr. Manzoor Mohammed

Capacity planning can be problematic for organisations who don't have experienced capacity planners. From our experience, these are the main capacity planning mistakes that organisations make. 

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