BMC Capacity Management for Mainframes

Predict future service levels for mainframe applications and  hardware

IT problem

Avoid over spending on hardware and software resources required to support constantly evolving and dynamic IT and business  environments. Find a way to exploit new mainframe technologies cost-effectively.  Reduce business risk associated with IT performance degradation yet do so with a shrinking  pool of  skilled capacity management staffers.

BMC solution

BMC Capacity Management for Mainframes can predict the future service levels for mainframe applications and the utilization levels of the hardware resources that support them. Easy to use GUIs and wizards enable technical staff to quickly develop fluency and deliver capacity management value.

Features and benefits

• Enables tighter integration of IT with the business via the association of business KPIs with IT performance metrics
• Provides a business application-centric view of performance reporting and capacity planning
• Provides a consistent, efficient, multi-platform approach for managing IT resource
• Mitigates risk by automatically analyzing performance data and quickly predicting future requirements
• Reduces  costs by optimizing the deployment of new lower cost mainframe technology (z10, zIIP, zAAP, and Linux)
• Improves productivity by saving time  effort with automated web-based reporting

Key differentiators

• Accurately predict the response time performance of business applications
• Interactive “what if” modeling lets you quickly evaluate multiple scenarios before making final recommendations