High Performance On Demand Solutions

Implementing an On Demand Operating Environment is fundamental to becoming an On Demand Business. Such an environment enables a business to implement new decisions in a timely manner. An On Demand Operating Environment is built on the concepts of virtualization, provisioning, and orchestration of resources, tied together loosely using a service-oriented architecture.

• Virtualization allows resources to be manipulated in a uniform and flexible manner leading to automation. Previously manual tasks can be run 24 hours-a-day with little supervision.
  
• Provisioning tasks, which can take up to two weeks, can be completed with fewer errors in less than a couple of hours. Virtualization and provisioning are prerequisites for orchestration.
  
• Orchestration in an On Demand Operating Environment is the ability to repurpose and align hardware and software resources to meet fluctuating traffic conditions, with no manual intervention, while meeting service-level agreements for the application.
  

• Part 1: IT resource optimization
  
• Part 2: Business process optimization
  
• Part 3: Solution performance, scalability, and high availability