March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 32m
English
Self-optimization is the ability of the IT infrastructure to efficiently maximize resource allocation and utilization to provide service for both system users and their customers. In the short term, self-optimization primarily addresses the complexity of managing system performance. In the long term, self-optimizing software applications may learn from experience and proactively tune themselves in an overall business objective context. Workload management uses self-optimizing technology to help optimize hardware and software use and verify that service-level goals are being met. Predictive analysis tools provide views into performance trends, allowing proactive action to be taken to help optimize the IT infrastructure before critical ...