IBM SmartCloud Workload Automation

Execution in the cloud

• Integrates with IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager, allowing you to request, deploy, monitor and manage cloud computing services.
• Offers vertical integration between the layers of cloud, from application to infrastructure.
• Offers cloud flexibility to serve business service-level agreements (SLAs) and track them throughout platforms.

Dynamic workload management and scheduling

• Provides automation capabilities to control processing of your production workloads including batch and online services.
• Aggregates and manages cross-enterprise workloads with common policies.
• Provides automatic distribution of workloads to static or dynamic pools of server machines, based on workload requirements and user policies.
• Extends to mainframe jobs, allowing you to better manage distributed and mixed workloads.
• Helps increase resiliency for the infrastructure with fault-tolerant features such as automatic notification, recovery and restart for failed workloads.

Per-job pricing model

• Enables you to pay for services used based on the number of managed workloads and requested SLAs, providing better cost control.
• Helps minimize fixed costs by reducing software licenses, infrastructure and labor, providing the flexibility to grow as business and technology demands change.
• Uses a simple linear metric principle to price jobs separately, regardless of the environment size and complexity.

Centralized, web-based views

• Provides a streamlined interface for mobile devices that helps you monitor workloads from anywhere.
• Manages heterogeneous application and system tasks, workload activities and services from a single point of control.
• Consolidates jobs coming from different networks into a unique list, allowing operators to monitor them from one screen.
• Provides a web-based graphical layout view for job streams and job elements.
• Enables development and operational teams to collaborate, monitor and visualize complex situations.

Workload simulation and forecasting

• Provides a forecast planning feature to help you model and understand workflows and potential bottlenecks in advance.
• Offers impact analysis of changes to plans and workloads while reducing trial and error in production changes.