CA Technologies has announced a new release of CA Capacity Management that enables enterprises and service providers to provide more reliable business services by better predicting the optimal resources needed to support applications that reside in mainframe, distributed, virtual and/or hybrid cloud environments. The solution’s new analytical capabilities also provide data that can help organisations reduce datacentre costs and risk, and improve business agility.
CA Capacity Management uniquely provides advanced scalability and capacity analysis for the cross-platform enterprise to provide customers with the prescriptive insight needed to make informed business decisions to enhance quality of service and quality of experience.
“Virtualisation and cloud computing have raised a variety of challenges for companies in managing the performance of business services. They need to anticipate how their applications will perform in new environments; if they have adequate infrastructure capacity to deliver on their SLAs; when they will need to bring additional infrastructure on-line to support demand; and whether these services are being delivered as efficiently as possible,” said Stephen Miles, VP, Service Assurance, APJ, CA Technologies. “The new predictive analytics capabilities in CA Capacity Management provide the insight that help IT organisations ensure the delivery of high quality, reliable services while optimising their investment in supporting infrastructure and freeing up investment for other innovative projects.”
Customers can use the operational intelligence of CA Capacity Management to determine the impact on performance, capacity and response time as a result of changing workloads, configurations and platforms. These platforms include public cloud vendors, such as Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace, Savvis and Verizon Terremark; virtualisation platforms, such as VMware, and hardware/OS environments, including Windows, Linux on either Intel or AMD, and z/OS on the mainframe.