Continuous resource optimization
Organizations in every market segment require IT to continuously anticipate and meet the changing capacity needs of the business, while also ensuring optimal performance and cost. Companies are adopting continuous, business-aware capacity management as a new approach to IT resource optimization.
As organizations begin to move more and more of their infrastructure into a virtualized, shared-services model, two things happen to capacity:
First, the underlying physical hardware, such as the computer, network, and storage, is shared across more — and more complex — systems. As utilization rates increase, so do the complexity and dynamic nature of the environment, introducing more interdependencies and ongoing change among the various components. As a result, any given component has the potential to impact many others, thus driving the need for active management and modeling of its capacity. In addition, in a cloud environment, the provisioning placement engine needs accurate and up-to-date visibility into current resource capacity in order to properly decide where and how to place services.
Second, and perhaps more important, is the need to provide a way for IT to view its operations from a business perspective. Effective resource optimization balances cost against capacity, and supply against demand, to ensure that sufficient IT resources are available to meet current and future business requirements. New tools providing a high degree of automation and integration are required. These tools should combine flexible visualization, automated exception-based analysis and reporting, and a wide range of planning capabilities to provide a comprehensive solution for ensuring cost-effective, optimal business service performance and alignment.
BMC offers solutions that work hand in hand to provide continuous resource optimization, delivering business-aware capacity planning for modern data centers comprised of physical, virtual, and cloud technologies. BMC Capacity Management plans for immediate and growing capacity requirements, while also ensuring existing capacity is optimized. It works with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to build the underlying cloud environment, and with BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping to track cloud services and dependencies.
Key activities:
- Continuously audit cloud services
- “Right size” resource pools
- Optimize resource allocation for business priorities
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