BMC Capacity Optimization

Part of the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Suite

The product provides:

• Holistic capacity management for all data center resources, including physical and virtual servers, databases,storage, applications, middleware, networks, facilities, and more
• Business-aware capacity planning to manage IT capacity from a business perspective
• Policy-based consolidation, virtualization, and cloud planning based on technical and business constraints
• Automated capacity analysis, reporting, and planning across all data sources
• Integrated performance, configuration, cloud, and capacity management to enable proactive, business-aligned IT operations

With BMC Capacity Management, you will:

• Deliver optimal business service performance by optimizing capacity across all data center resources
• Increase IT agility to meet rapidly changing business demands
• Optimize resource allocation and workload placement in hybrid physical, virtual, and cloud environments
• Improve service quality by delivering the right information to the right person at the right time
• Reduce cost by continuously optimizing IT capacity to meet demand 

Resources

Analyst Reports

• Forrester Research Inc: I&O’s New Capacity Planning Organization (registration required)
• EMA: BMC Drives Capacity Optimization for Hybrid Cloud Environments with Unique Breadth and Versatility (pdf)

Recent Success Stories

• Findomestic (pdf)
• European Mobile Operator (pdf)
• Dell (video)

Customer Articles

• Capacity Concerns in a SaaS and Cloud World by Ron Kaminski, Kimberly-Clark Corporation (CMG website)
• Time Stable Workload Characterization Techniques by Ron Kaminski, Kimberly-Clark Corporation (CMG website)