BMC Capacity Management Essentials

Business Challenge

With data center complexity on the rise, average server utilization rates at an all time low, and the costs of operating and managing IT resources steadily increasing, businesses are looking to IT managers to not only cut costs but also increase IT efficiency and agility. With a limited IT staff, organizations are challenged to make the appropriate optimization, consolidation, and virtualization decisions that will not only cut costs, but also ensure consistent performance and service levels.

Business Need

• Improve IT agility, quality of service, and responsiveness to changing business needs
• Optimize existing IT resources – purchasing new hardware only as necessary
• Provide fast, accurate capacity assessment and reporting of current environment
• Have a clear understanding of how specific data center resources are being used
• Identify opportunities for virtualization of existing data center resources to reduce costs

Our Solution

BMC Capacity Management Essentials is a capacity assessment tool designed to meet your current and ongoing capacity management needs. A scalable and easy-to-deploy capacity management product, it provides simplified reporting of crucial machine performance characteristics. Built-in intelligence automatically pinpoints underutilized and overutilized systems. Customizable reports and graphs provide added flexibility for advanced troubleshooting and analysis – facilitating your understanding of the capacity of thousands of systems.

Key Features & Benefits

• Accelerates data center optimization projects by rapidly identifying candidates for consolidation or virtualization initiatives
• Provides simplified visual analysis through a consolidated view of data center utilization
• Automatically identifies underutilized and overutilized IT resources
• Expedites problem diagnosis through drill down of specific system resource utilization by services
• Displays utilization patterns over time as influenced by business cycles
• Provides flexibility in reporting and visualization with customizable options

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