The Resources required to deliver an identifiable part of an IT Service. Workloads may be Categorised by Users, groups of Users, or Functions within the IT Service. This is used to assist in analysing and managing the Capacity, Performance and Utilisation of Configuration Items and IT Services. The term Workload is sometimes used as a synonym for Throughput.
source: ITIL Resources
published: 2007-12-20 21:13:37