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CA Capacity Management

End-to-end Capacity Analysis to Cost Optimize & Right-Size Your IT Environment

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Our Application Centric Economy

The Need for Capacity Management

The Value of CA Capacity Management

Capacity Management Use Cases

The Hot Points

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APPLICATION ECONOMYTHIS IS THE AGE OF THE

USERSAND IT’S ALL ABOUT THE


Did You Know?

10%Is the average server utilization rate

Gartner

1/3Of VMs are unutilized in a typical data center

CA Technologies sponsored survey

5-10XMore planning time is required without capacity management tools

Gartner

60%Increased server utilization rates can be realized with CA

CA Technologies sponsored survey


#1Capacity Management is a top priority for IT

decision makers in 2014

Source: Obstacles and Priorities on the Journey to the Software-Defined Data Center, EMA, January 2014

“Over the next five years, most organizations will see a significant increase in hardware (storage, servers, networks) capacity…Capacity planning based upon rigorous analysis of historical data with accurate projections of future growth should be implemented.”Source: Eight Critical Forces That Will Shape Enterprise Data Center Strategies for the Next Five Years – Gartner November 2013


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How do I…

Increase server

utilization?

Predict future

capacity needs across

my data centers?

Select & validate which

apps & services to move

to the cloud?

Avoid over-provisioning

resources as an expensive

insurance policy driving

higher costs?

Determine optimal

computing resources for

app releases or upgrades?


Capacity Management: A Balancing Act

RISK

TCO

Performance/AvailabilityBalancing performance, cost & riskWithout capacity insight, IT cannot predict capacity needed to meet workload demands leading to:

• Under- or over-provisioned environments

• Performance degradations

• Increased risk

• Wasted resources

• Increased costs

PerformanceAvailability

RISK

Cost


Business Value of CA Capacity Management

IMPROVE

Data Center Efficiencies

Maximize performance of existing infrastructure to reduce the cost and need for additional IT resources

IMPROVE

Capacity Planning Process

Improve productivity with accurate capacity forecasts and a enterprise view of utilization.

IMPROVE

Migrations, Consolidations, Deployments

Predict cost v. performance scenarios for consolidation, virtualization, HW upgrades & application rollouts

Enabling IT to make informed business decisions to predictably, efficiently, and dependably deliver successful business outco mes


What You NEED From A Capacity Management Solution

MAINFRAMETO

CLOUD

SCALEIS

TRUST

BUSINESSSERVICE

INTELLIGENCEAGENT-LESS

PREDICTIVERELIABILITY


The Application Economy Runs On CA Capacity Management

24+Months in advance predictive capacity plans

Large US Bank

2000Unused applications eliminated saving millions

Large Telecommunications Company

$2.5MHW savings with first project alone

Large Food & Beverage Distributor

50%Reduction in HW costs

Large Financial Firm

40,000+Servers Under Management

World’s Largest Retailer

$250MSaved by deferring new DC build out

Large Oil & Gas Company

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CA Capacity ManagementIncrease Efficiency, Assure Delivery and Reduce Costs with Confidence

DECISION SUPPORT FOR IT INVESTMENTS

Model growthAssess capacity efficiency

across ITIdentify utilization impact

to business services

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LYTI

CS

Anticipate potential issues before they impact the customer experience

Strategic Business Value


How It WorksCA Capacity Management Provides Prescriptive Answers

Performance Data

CMDB/CMS Config Data

Business Growth Plans

Plan for Success

Assessmentof Efficiency

Best Actions

CA Capacity

Management

CA Capacity

Management

• Cost Reductions• Test to production• Seasonal Peaks• Hardware refresh• Virtualization/Cloud initiatives• M&A• Datacenter transformation• ITIL adoption• Service Delivery


CA Capacity Management is Designed to Improve Data Center Efficiencies

Improve resource utilization and reduce costs

Increase Utilization of Existing Hardware— Identify areas for consolidation and cost savings — Cost vs. Performance scenarios for best need & value

Optimize Virtual Environments— Automatic placement of VMs — Distribution of workloads to VMs and hosts — Elimination of VM Sprawl

Predictive planning and performance of platform migrations— P2V, V2P, V2V, V2C, C2C

Reduces CapEx & OpEx— Hardware, software, power, space, cooling, etc.

Insight for internal/external cloud initiatives and advanced virtualization initiatives


Improve Data Center EfficienciesCustomer example: World’s Largest Retailer

ProblemWasting 2 FTE/month collecting data

Out of data center space

SolutionAutomate capacity analysis process

Identify wasted resources

Balance data center resources

BenefitDeferred new $140M data center

Increased productivity by eliminating 900+ hours of manual data collection

$250M/year OpEx savings


CA Capacity Management is Designed to Improve the Capacity Planning Process

Eliminate manual, error-prone efforts & improve productivity

Deliver IT Transparency to applicable stakeholders— Predict and communicate the effects of business demand on IT resources— Extend IT resource planning horizons

Manage Capacity Planning— Improve productivity— Reduce manual, error-prone efforts— Gain insight into business service capacity allocations— Capacity reporting for all business levels— Plan IT resource demands— Effectively plan to support increased demand

Manage Risk — Confidently and efficiently bring new services on-line— Account for seasonality in workloads — Effectively plan for Disaster Recovery


Improve Capacity Planning ProcessesCustomer example: Large US Bank

ProblemNo insight into the capacity performance of infrastructure supporting critical business services

No confidence from the business in IT capacity planning

SolutionEnterprise scalable capacity analysis

Single repository for capacity planning

Adopt formal capacity planning methodology

BenefitInsight into optimal resource utilization

Millions in cost avoidance for new HW/SW purchases

IT/Business aligned – “IT

now has a seat at the table”


CA Capacity Management is Designed to Improve Migration and Consolidation Initiatives

Predict risk, cost, performance & return

Virtualization— Predict how workloads will effect performance of IT resources consumed — Provide automatic placement of workloads to VMs and clusters for business

continuity

Data Center Consolidation— Understand what resources are consumed by lines of business and how they

are provisioned— Identify areas for consolidation while maintaining SLAs

Hardware Upgrades— Predict the performance of various hosting or hardware options for the

application portfolio managers / lines of business.

New Application Rollouts— Determine current and projected utilization of existing infrastructure

including CPUs, memory, disk and other metrics when new applications are deployed


Improve Migration and Consolidation InitiativesCustomer example: Large US Telecommunications Company

ProblemGrowth & acquisition resulted in a complex infrastructure of 2000 VMs and 3400 applications.

Cannot accurately plan for future IT services demand.

Increase demand expected for iPhone launch

SolutionIdentify consolidation opportunities

Forecast changes required to remediate bottlenecks

Ensuring adequate capacity for future business needs

BenefitSupported successful iPhone launch

$20M/year saved in infrastructure costs

Eliminated thousands of applications & servers

Eliminated need for additional data centers

Doubled utilization to 60%


Predictive ReliabilityCombine the power of CA APM/IM & Capacity Management to reliably predict capacity needs

Ensure Service Delivery

Control Costs

Reduce Risk


Predictive Reliability is Designed to Guarantee Application Deployments

‘What if’ modeling to reduce risk, ensure service delivery

and control costs

Improve Application Performance and Scalability Testing

₋ Smooth transition from test to production

₋ Simplified test environments using cost effective infrastructure

₋ Reduce risks of service impact of platform, architecture or test load

volumes

₋ Determine production scalability

Improve Application Development Release Cycles & Code Quality

₋ Increase time to market

₋ Improve application code quality

₋ Optimize the application lifecycle

Ensure Expected Application Performance & overall Service Delivery

₋ Prescribe optimum sizing for business services

₋ Improve end-user experience

₋ Support risk, cost and performance decision making throughout

application life cycles


Guarantee Application Deployments Customer example: Large Food & Beverage Distributor

ProblemFull testing of complex SAP system very expensive

Cannot uncover potential bottlenecks

Exec Request: Reduce cost & risk, improve service delivery

SolutionProvide warning system during design, test & production that reduces time, cost & risk with SAP performance testing

Benefit$2.5M savings in HW with 1st project alone

Reduces $millions in time, cost & resources needed to build/execute tests

Developed Model-based Performance Testing processes


Baseline infrastructure

utilization

Profile & correlate workload

volumetrics

Predictive analytics to prescribe

optimum sizing

Quantified risk and investment support ROI and

business case

Predictive ReliabilityHow It Works


Application Delivery

Capacity Management

Application Performance Management

DevOps

=> [developers]:/collaborate/Operations Staff

=>

<= /accelerate /(new applications).delivery <=

There is No Ops in DevOps Without Capacity Management


CA Capacity Management Quantitative Benefits

25% 20% 10X 5X +/- 3%

Minimum

HW/SW

savings

Improvement

in application

response

times

Improvement

in capacity

planning

times

ROI realized

on first

project alone

Highly

accurate

projections

against

actuals


CA Capacity Management Proof of Value (PoV)…

The FREE CA Capacity Management Proof of Value package will demonstrate the key benefits of how the solution helps:

• REDUCE IT spend, • IDENTIFY consolidation/virtualization

opportunities and • Accurately identify and PREDICT future

infrastructure needs • in half the time that a traditional PoC would

take.

How it works:

Provide data backup (APM, VMware only) 3 days to deliver PoV results CA PoV results presentation CA removes client data from PoV system

“We couldn’t believe how under-utilized our virtual environment actually was. We can now have a better understanding of how to avoid overspending and reclaim infrastructure that can support our future initiatives.” – Data Center Manager, Large Managed Service Provider, March 2014


White Paper: Six Critical Steps to Building a Successful Capacity Management Practice

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