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Utility Computing

The prospect of a "utilitarian" IT environment promises great returns for enterprises. Although there have been many advances in technology to support this method of computing, the greater challenge and question still remains."How can I apply this method of computing to my IT enterprise?" IDC found that "nearly 65% of companies [they] surveyed are interested in leveraging some type of utility computing". The fact is, the thought of utility computing is still fairly "visionary" and there is a shortage of tools that let enterprises convert their current IT investments into a utility computing environment, until now.

MetiLinx enables enterprises to adapt and take a step by step approach to a "utility" style or "capacity on demand" computing environment.

Business Drivers

• Convert IT to a Service - Provide value added services to internal and external users; Ability to chargeback during premium processing periods allows business units to self-manage their users
• Improve Quality of Service - Predictable operations
• Support Dynamic Changes as well as Market Shifts
• Reduce Complexity - Simplify IT environment
• Efficiency and Control - Do more with less

MetiLinx solutions help enterprises to address the following concerns:

• What systems should I use to create my utility infrastructure?
• How do I convert my IT systems into a Utility computing environment?
• My systems experience constant, unpredictable fluctuations in demand. Now that I am providing IT as a "utility" how do I enable my systems to react to these changes and ensure that my customers receive the service levels they are expecting?
• How can I assess how much of my Utility services are being utilized and by who?
• My systems are comprised of various platforms that support many different business functions. How can I extend the utility solution to work across these platforms?

MetiLinx solutions enable heterogeneous environments to participate in a "utility" style or capacity on demand computing environment, which ensures higher system utilization and optimization from existing systems. They provide step-by-step technologies to help enterprises adapt at their own pace while allowing resources to be pooled to deliver specific utility-based services. Other benefits include:

• Predictable operating costs
• Renewed focus on core competencies
• Greater accuracy in analyzing resource utilization by user or business unit

MetiLinx dSuite

• Replicate provides a software replication framework that offers a non-invasive, platform-independent solution that maintains real-time replication and synchronization of data across LAN frameworks

MetiLinx iSuite

• Blueprint performs an asset discovery and classification to profile the system, applications, functionality, components, and architecture
• Optimize delivers the ability to analyze the interdependencies of resources, then redirect processes, connections and transactions to the optimal server within the shortest period of time
• Meter is a solution that measures resource utilization, as well as the correlation of the utilization, to specific users, and groups of users, across time
• Connect is a tightly integrated management interface that provides the ability to integrate information and data via web services, SNMP, XML, and database transactions to other system management interfaces