BMC Capacity Management Key Differentiators The BMC Capacity Management Route to Value: Provides an integrated distributed systems and mainframe capacity management solution Supports the broadest range of physical and virtual platforms and operating systems Provides out of the box integration with other BMC solutions to provide a holistic view of IT infrastructure performance and capacity > See a complete list  Problem Despite changing business priorities, the capacity management group must continually determine the required server capacity needed to respond to current as well as future demands, often without the ability to purchase more equipment or increase headcount.  In addition, this team must increase operational efficiency, manage server sprawl, align with ITIL best practices, transition from a physical to a virtual server model, and drive costs down while data center management and cooling costs rise. Despite these problems, your capacity management group needs to be able to: Architect and implement an adaptive IT infrastructure that can accommodate technology and business change without requiring massive retooling and overhaul of technology, processes, or management solutions Ensure service levels by cost-effectively delivering the right amount of capacity to meet your business demands Achieve service level goals with metrics that are linked with business objectives and are understandable by the business Ensure appropriate response time and throughput of business services by understanding application-specific resource requirements Offer a customer view of services IT provides to the business while demonstrating a measurable and value-recognized contribution to business success Solution The BMC Capacity Management Route to Value ensures the capacity of your IT infrastructure corresponds to the evolving demands of the business in the most cost-effective, timely, and accurate manner. For example, our solutions help you identify what resources are being used by business services and what will happen if changes are made in system configurations, including consolidation or virtualization of servers, or changes in capacity or demand. Using advanced analytical techniques, our solutions analyze current and historical performance as well as accurately predict future resource capacity needs, to enable you to optimize IT resources to deliver better service availability and performance.   Solution Components Related Topics BMC Performance Analysis and Capacity Management (Distributed)  BMC Performance Analysis and Capacity Management (Mainframe)  BSM and BMC Capacity Management ITIL and BMC Capacity Management