Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator

Inefficiency within data centers is a key concern for organizations, given the massive sprawl of IT assets, underutilized data center resources, and static IT infrastructures that are unable to cope with the dynamic needs of businesses. The solution to eliminating these inefficiencies lies within the power of dynamic resource management. Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO) is the foundation technology that enables IT resources to be optimally shared and allocated based on policies that dynamically respond to changing business demands and priorities. It is a robust, scalable, and trusted dynamic resource management product that effectively matches resource supply with business demand.

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Binding the data center infrastructure through dynamic resource management

How you can benefit from Platform EGO:

• Deliver IT resources faster
• Enable higher utilization of resources
• Achieve service levels at lowest possible cost
• Reduce data center administration and infrastructure costs
• Optimize cloud computing infrastructure

Platform EGO: dynamically matching resource supply with demand across application silos

Selected facts about Platform EGO:

• Unique non-intrusive resource sharing.  Platform EGO enables IT to non-intrusively expand and shrink application silo ‘walls’ through the power of effectively sharing resources.  Application owners can either share their resources directly with other line-of-business peers, or at the corporate level where resource orchestration is managed centrally across multiple business units.
• Consumer and resource policy-based management.  Platform EGO’s sharing policies control how a pool of resources can be allocated among participating application owners. Resource sharing plans define policies on when and how much each consumer owns, lends or borrows.  Priorities are set to ensure the highest priority applications have access to the appropriate amount of resources to meet service levels.  Policy-driven management empowers business units with the control over their own resources and IT budgets.
• Extensive, open standards-based architecture.  Platform EGO architecture provides a simple, lightweight, and highly extensible model for dynamic resource management. It is built on open standards and architectures including Web services, SOA, and virtualization, to allow for scalability, extensibility and flexibility to manage resources across applications.  Management extensibility is made available through application workload, virtualization, automation, and utility infrastructure plug-ins.
• Platform EGO Developer Edition. Developer tools offer ease of application development to enable dynamic resource sharing.
• Scalable, production-proven solution.  Platform EGO represents almost two decades of experience in managing complex production data centers, and is leveraged in leading workload management solutions, Platform LSF and Platform Symphony.  It is also an essential component of Platform VMO, which provides automated matching of heterogeneous virtual resources with demand, and SAS Grid Manager, a partner application that leverages Platform technology to dynamically distribute analytic workloads.