While consolidation can reduce the number of physical assets in an infrastructure, the number of virtual systems may actually increase, thereby increasing the complexity. These virtual assets require integrated systems management and monitoring for your workloads.

IBM offers innovative and highly integrated software solutions designed to help you simplify and unify management across the infrastructure.

Support ongoing cost savings

• Utilise capacity and energy management to enable further consolidation and reduce data centre energy costs.
• Enable common integrated management tools across the infrastructure, regardless of domain or platform.
• Increase IT staff productivity.

Improve service delivery

• Accelerate identification and remediation of issues and bottlenecks.
• Map dependencies in real time across components to proactively identify potential issues.
• Automate routine administrative tasks to improve response time and reduce user error.

Increase business agility

• Accelerate planning and implementation with reference architectures and decision support frameworks.
• Leverage open standards and reuse standardised design elements to create a more modular architecture.
• Proactively plan for future capacity and energy needs of the business.