IBM Concert Optimize

Optimize performance, cost and resource utilization

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Continuously optimize hybrid environments

Concert Optimize, part of the IBM Concert platform, helps teams continuously align resource usage with application demand across hybrid and multicloud environments. By providing visibility across applications, infrastructure, cloud resources, and containers, it identifies performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and idle capacity that can impact both cost and application performance.

Concert Optimize generates optimization actions that can be executed manually or through policy-based automation, helping teams improve resource efficiency, reduce cloud costs and ensure applications have the resources they need to perform reliably at scale.

Key optimizations

Monitor applications anywhere they are deployed

Continuously align infrastructure resources with real application demand to help assure performance. Concert Optimize supports smarter placement, scaling and rightsizing decisions so teams can improve responsiveness, capacity and efficiency across hybrid environments.

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Optimize virtual workloads across your data centers

Analyze application demand across data center environments to optimize compute, storage and network resources. Teams can right-size workloads, improve utilization and automate placement or scaling actions while maintaining performance.

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Optimize Kubernetes for performance and cost efficiency

Continuously optimize Kubernetes resources by resizing containers, scaling clusters and aligning resource allocation to workload demand and service-level objectives. Teams can improve efficiency while maintaining application performance.

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Achieve lower cloud costs, greater efficiency and improved resource utilization

Optimize cloud resources across IaaS compute, GPU resources, storage, PaaS and DBaaS capacity. Concert Optimize helps reduce overprovisioning, improve utilization and automate governed actions such as scaling or parking idle workloads.

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Automate AI workload optimization at scale

Analyze GPU, CPU and memory usage across hybrid environments to place, scale and right-size AI workloads. Teams can reduce idle capacity, avoid overprovisioning and maximize existing infrastructure for AI demand.

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Accelerate your cloud migration projects

Use historical and real-time data to plan capacity across data centers, Kubernetes and cloud environments. Teams can simulate migration scenarios and understand cost, capacity and performance impact before acting.

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Free capacity and improve use

Identify idle or underutilized resources and take governed actions to park, suspend or delete them. Teams can reduce waste, free capacity and improve utilization across cloud and hybrid environments.

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Benefits

Assure performance while controlling cost 

Continuously align resource supply with application demand to improve performance, reduce waste and avoid unnecessary infrastructure spend.

Reduce resource waste across hybrid and multicloud environments

Identify overprovisioned and underutilized resources across applications, infrastructure and cloud and take action to eliminate inefficiencies.

Optimize across domains on a unified platform

Bring application, infrastructure, cloud and container data together to make consistent optimization decisions without switching tools.

Automate optimization with governance

Execute optimization actions using policy-based controls to ensure safe, transparent and consistent outcomes. Send actions for approval to ServiceNow using the certified ServiceNow App.

Case study

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Hyland Software reduces cloud costs while assuring application performance across hybrid environment.

15%
savings in the AWS environment in less than a year
15%
savings in computing costs across datacenter
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