Brave New World of IT Workload Automation

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The Brave New World
of IT Workload
Automation
Part I
Denise P. Kalm Workload AutomationSeptember 2006Table of ContentsExecutive Summary .............................................................................................................................................................................................3Audience ................................................................................................................................................................................................................3Job Scheduling Then ...........................................................................................................................................................................................3IT Evolution I .........................................................................................................................................................................................................3IT Evolution II........................................................................................................................................................................................................4The Real-Time Enterprise (RTE).......................................................................................................................................................................4Job Scheduling Now ............................................................................................................................................................................................5CA-Workload Automation - The "Leading Edge" Solution ......................................................................................................................6Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................................................................................8
2Executive Summary Job Scheduling Then What is IT workload automation and how will it impact In the earliest days of business data processing, all workyour business? Enterprise Job Scheduling, once the back came in as a batch job, and ran on a mainframe, typicallyof?ce function of Operations in the mainframe world, at night during the "batch window." As uni-processorshas evolved to become a critical factor in the real time gave way to multiprocessors and then to parallel sysplex,enterprise (RTE). In an on-demand, service-oriented IT organizations needed a way to schedule and controlworld, being able to automate event-driven work, reduce complex production runs, to ensure their completiontime and cost, dynamically provision resources to before daytime online processing began. Simple scriptsworkloads, and proactively manage critical batch and manual methods were quickly replaced with vendorperformance are essential success factors. An IT Service job scheduling solutions. Jobs were grouped intoGovernor helps enforce business policies and SLAs collections, and execution was calendar-based using date-(service level agreements), working in synergy with time triggers. Mainframe solutions were robust and ablesystems and operations management software to provide to control job streams, handle exceptions, restart jobs;the optimal service for the lowest possible cost. At the automation of critical functions, freeing personnel to docore, it means creating a self-managing and self-healing other important work. environment. As UNIX and Windows found a home in the mainframeThink you know all there is to know about job scheduling? glass house (and outside of it), they too rapidly found aTake another look and learn how the next generation of need to launch and manage complex groups of inter-job scheduling is evolving into IT Workload Automation, connected processes. However, unlike mainframeand how CA can help your company realize the real time applications, the concept of "batch" wasn't reallyenterprise. understood; batch-like work wasn't thought to be all thatdifferent from any other process. As most mainframeschedulers did not support these platforms, native toolsAudience were enhanced with home-grown programs designed tocontrol process execution. These systems were time-Operations personnel, production control and job intensive to manage, growing in complexity as newschedulers are the traditional audience for information on require... [download for more]