IBM Service Management Center for System z

The solutions provided by IBM Service Management Center for System z can help your organization transform from a rigid silo IT infrastructure to a green and dynamic one. The greener environment helps conserve energy and reduce costs, while the flexibility offered makes it easier to adapt to changes in business processes and in the optimum utilization of resources.

There is no need to rip and replace solutions as you go through this transformation. The open architecture allows easy integration with non-IBM solutions. And SMCz solutions offer an exciting platform to host new technologies such as SOA, Virtualization and Cloud Computing. For example, they offer:

-Dynamic and robust solutions for virtual environments – Linux on System z

• Dynamic provisioning, dynamic workload management, availability management, dependency mapping, usage monitoring and chargeback

-Real-time service visibility and intelligence

• Plan, test and execute IT Service continuity and understand the impact of incidents and changes

-Support for new technologies, such as Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing

• New offering for Cloud Computing – Request-driven provisioning of virtualized systems and resources to request, fulfill and manage complete software stacks for the data center.