BMC Capacity Management for Mainframes

Predict future service levels for mainframe applications

Facilitate ‘just-in-time’ hardware procurement by identifying when current resources will no longer meet service levels.

This proven mainframe capacity planning and management product:

• Forecasts future capacity requirements based on current and historical behavior to avoid over- or under-provisioning
• Enables evaluation of different hardware, workload balancing, and application-tuning options — without costly hardware or application changes
• Determines the best situations in which to use low-cost specialty engines, such as zIIPs and zAAPs
• Provides a consistent, efficient, multi-platform approach for managing IT resources
• Provides a business application view of performance reporting and capacity planning
• Shares ITIL best practices across both mainframe and distributed systems

By using BMC Capacity Management for Mainframes, you will:

• Reduce costs by “right-sizing” the capacity requirements for your organization
• Make informed capacity procurement decisions based on historical, current, and future business application performance
• Mitigate the risk associated with prolonged application performance degradation or availability outages
• Improve productivity through automated web-based reporting
• Quickly evaluate multiple scenarios before making final recommendations using interactive “what if” modeling

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