CAPACITY ON DEMAND
Why don't systems simply adapt to loads?
The Challenge:
Capacity Planning is Difficult. Inflexible Hardware "Silos".
High Administrative Costs.
Business requirements for IT infrastructures constantly change. Finding the right balance between what you need today and expect to require tomorrow can be a difficult task. Most enterprises either overshoot their requirements or fall short of what they need. A key contributing factor to this dilemma is the reality of "hardware silos" that are inflexibile for scaling based on service level agreements. All of this results in poor capital efficiency and high administration costs from having to constantly adapt server capacity to demand.
How do you cope with a dynamic business environment with its multiple peaks and troughs while keeping TCO as low as possible?
The Cassatt Solution:
Supply-Demand Balance. Resource Pooling. Intelligent Allocation.
Using Cassatt Active Response you can create a continuous supply-demand balance with "capacity pooling" across multiple hardware platforms. Cassatt Active Response's service-level automation measures, analyzes and responds to resource demands, always guaranteeing sufficient capacity availability based on existing hardware and pre-defined rules and priorities. Cassatt Active Response continuously allocates resources - from anywhere on the network - as demand fluctuates.
Cassatt Active Response automatically allocates appropriate resources as demand rises and falls — according to pre-defined policies and rules.
For example, as demand for an application service rises, Cassatt Active Response will allocate free-pool bare-metal resources, assign them to the appropriate network, and auto-provision them with the required service within minutes. And, if no free resources are available, Cassatt Active Response will intelligently re-allocate resources from a lower-priority application. Finally, if the free resources are not natively compatible, Cassatt Active Response even knows to first auto-provision a virtual machine layer.
The Business Value:
Cassatt Active Response's concept of automating service levels saves administration time while ensuring business service availability - regardless of infrastructure or business dynamics. In complex environments with hundreds of applications to monitor, this savings can represent a significant proportion of operational expenses. Finally, applications which only consume the resources they need means that all capital investments are used at their highest efficiency.
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