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Analyzing Systems Performance

IT leaders are striving to be more efficient by aggressively managing hardware, software, and technology resource costs. With so much emphasis placed on maximizing the return on investment (ROI) made in IT infrastructures, it is imperative for organizations to identify under-utilized and over‑utilized resources and balance workloads effectively.

Servers often run at low utilization levels. As such, applying appropriate and effective management policies can greatly reduce costs while increasing performance levels. Effective performance information also assists IT managers in justifying new IT expenditures by clearly illustrating when current resources have reached maximum capacity and new resources are required to maintain expected service levels.

Your IT organization must also minimize the impact of unexpected performance problems during daily operations to maintain expected service levels. Effective performance management is needed to quickly analyze problems when they occur and improve responsiveness by isolating their causes. Consistent management policies and techniques across heterogeneous server infrastructures are needed to minimize complexity and reduce the need for specialized administration.

Systems Performance manages the performance of the servers that deliver business-critical IT services using consistent, fact-based management policies that reduce complexity. Costs are minimized by applying platform-independent management policies and techniques across heterogeneous server infrastructures, reducing the need for specialized administrators to manage such infrastructures.

With comprehensive systems platform coverage and support for industry standards, Systems Performance provides a flexible and extensible architecture that simplifies the management of the numerous systems and devices that make up today's complex infrastructures. Its facilities for collecting, analyzing, and reporting performance information simplify performance and capacity trend analysis, and increase IT responsiveness to unexpected problems, ensuring higher service levels. Prepackaged management policies and secure, centralized configuration further simplifies administration and increases IT efficiency, resulting in faster ROI.