Moving beyond consolidation and workload management, IBM offers solutions designed to help you automate processes, further organising the infrastructure around best practices, business rules, priorities and processes. The result is a significantly more agile infrastructure that can respond quickly and automatically to changing business conditions. Responses might include the ability to automatically provision capacity as needed, or to automatically move priority workloads within system pools to cope with changes in demand.

Support ongoing cost savings

• Provision across silos from bare metal to OS, to applications and storage and network to reduce time to market for new services from days to minutes.
• Reduce human errors using automated processes.
• Implement policy-based infrastructure to improve compliance with evolving regulatory requirements.

Improve service delivery

• Support higher service levels with an infrastructure that is more self-aware and self-healing.
• Better manage demand spikes and differentiate genuine demand from security attacks on the infrastructure.
• Ensure business priority alignment with IT priorities, automatically provisioning and reassigning resources as needed by the business.

Increase business agility

• Support business-based decision making with a more versatile IT options.
• Reduce the risk and cost for business strategy implementation.
• Ensure alignment of infrastructure services to business objectives.