It is no longer efficient, nor even possible, to properly manage your infrastructure with manual processes performed in an ad hoc, incident-based manner. You must be able to continuously monitor, assess, adjust and restructure every part of your multiplatform, distributed, interconnected and internet-dependent cyber-multiverse to respond to constantly changing business requirements. Elevate Capacity Management (formerly Athene) provides leading companies with the cross-platform capacity management solution they need to meet their capacity management challenges. The new release of Elevate Capacity Management adds new features to ensure data integrity, improve data filtering, and provide more flexibility in customizing the most important thresholds in your IT environment. View this webinar on-demand and learn about these new features including: • Performance enhancement for large scale data ingestion and reporting • The ability to use virtually any metric as a threshold for monitoring and alerting • A faster and more scalable multi-threaded data management architecture

1. Introducing
Elevate Capacity Management
Presenter:
Jamie Baker
Product Management Director
Bill Hammond
Senior Product Marketing Manager

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Jamie Baker
Bill Hammond

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• New Branding
• Elevate Capacity Management Overview
• New Enhancements
• Q&A
Agenda
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Making critical data useful
Connecting today’s data
infrastructure with tomorrow’s
technology – ensuring data quality
to power machine learning, AI and
predictive analytics
Optimizing data infrastructure to
improve performance, control
costs across the full IT
environment, and assure data
availability and security
Optimize Integrate
Pushing the boundaries of
what data can do to support
the Next Wave of
technology and innovation
Advance

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Elevating performance & efficiency
- to control costs across the full IT environment,
from mainframe to cloud

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Athene is now
Elevate Capacity Management

7. Elevate Capacity
Management Overview

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• Enables your organizations to implement effective cross-platform
capacity management by identifying over and under-utilized and idle
IT infrastructure resources, whether on-premise or in the cloud.
• Provides a 360° view of IT services and infrastructure usage while
unifying and correlating data to proactively identify potential service
impacts, while helping to minimize risk and lower costs.
• Replace labor-intensive spreadsheets and error prone manual processes
with an easy to use, automated capacity planning solution.
What Does Elevate Capacity Management Do?

9. New Enhancements

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Data Summarizer for Integrator
• Automated 1 hour and 1 day
time aggregation and deletion
• Multi-threaded utility to
summarize historic Integrator
data stored in the database.
• Defined in the Portal and run by
the Job Scheduler
• Note: The Desktop application, Data
Management, is still responsible for
aggregation and deletion of data
captured by the Syncsort Acquires. UI
still shows Integrator but it is ignored
when Automation Templates are run.
z/OS Gatekeeper
• Optional feature for z/OS
data processing that ensures
the integrity of the
collection
• Detects any gap in the data
coming from the mainframe
and allows the user to
choose to recollect it or
accept the gaps and allow
the collection to continue.
• Ability to select any existing
metric, whether native or
calculated to be used as a Red
(Alarm) Threshold
• Allows allows tailoring of
Thresholds to automatically
handle:
• Different systems
• Configuration changes
Elevate Capacity Management
Enhancements
Metrics as Thresholds

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Metrics as Thresholds

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Data Summarizer - Integrator

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Portal Performance
• Performance improvements on
report production for all
aggregation methods
Portal Reports Improvements
• Portal Charts data volume limits
have been increased
• Data Series limit increased from
100 to 300 data series
• Data Point limit increased from
100,000 to 400,000 data points
• Significant performance
improvements to handle large
scale ingestion of both
VMware and z/OS data.
• Control Center no-longer
ingests individual CPU core
statistics
Elevate Capacity Management
Enhancements
Control Center Performance

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z/OS Job Group Reporting
• z/OS Jobs can be grouped by Job
type and/or wildcard patterns on
Job names.
• New Jobs (meeting criteria) are
automatically added to charts
which show the details of each
Job for a chosen Group, or as an
aggregated value for all Jobs in
the chosen Group.
• Note: The grouping options are a
subset of the capabilities that Groups
currently provides. Syncsort may
extend these capabilities in a future
release.
Additional Operating System
Support
• Windows Server 2019
• Operational and data capture
• Oracle Solaris 11.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 and
7.6
• SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12
SP4 and 15
• Oracle Database 18c and 19c
• When creating or editing a
Reporting Dashboard and
selecting instances for a Chart,
the filtering mechanism has
been enhanced to allow users
to search for specific
instances faster and easier
• When choosing to display a
Reporting Dashboard or
Service View, the list now
includes a quick search filter
mechanism
Elevate Capacity Management
Enhancements
Filtering Enhancements

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Elevate Capacity Management
Enhancements
Enhanced AWS EC2 Capture Pack HPE 3PAR Storage Capture Pack
• A new RESTful API Integrator
template that extracts capacity
metrics for FC, NL, and SSD device
types from HPEs 3PAR StoreServ
management console.
• EC2 RESTful API Integrator
Templates now supports multi-
regions, plus can report on EC2
Instances using a ‘nice name
‘rather than an auto-generated
Instance ID.
• Future plan to support multi-
accounts
• Note: ‘Nice names’ rely on the
presence of a specific AWS tag, by
default called ‘NiceName’, to hold a
user-defined name for a system.

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Why Elevate Capacity Management
Less Complexity
Capture and store data from the
entire infrastructure; automate
reporting and alerting; no detailed
system expertise required
Clearer Capacity Information
Identify existing and potential
capacity and performance threats;
prepares and visualizes key data for
time-to-live and bottleneck analysis
Healthier IT Operations
Near real-time alerts identify
problems in all key environments
View latency, transactions per
second, exceptions, etc.
Effective Incident Resolution
Management
Near real-time views to identify real or
potential failures earlier; view detailed
data to support triage repair or
prevention
Higher Operational Efficiency
Enhanced process correlation across
systems; Staff resolves problems faster;
“do more with less”
Eliminate Your Infrastructure
“Blind-Spots”
Get a complete view of Capacity and
Performance – technical, business,
financial – across the enterprise

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Single Solution
with 360◦ View
Covers multiple platforms and
everything from servers to storage
to networks for visibility into all
your performance and capacity
metrics
Replaces Manual
Processes
Interactive automated reporting and
flexible templates let you quickly
hone in on potential problems –
without spreadsheets and manual
processes
Prediction and
Alerting
See impact of potential changes
and set up monitors to identify
when and where thresholds
are exceeded
Brings metrics from across your
enterprise into one place for a
comprehensive, real-time view
of your infrastructure.
Elevate
Capacity
Management
Flexible
Deployment
Options
Deploy on-premises or in the cloud.
Management of the solution in the
cloud available through Syncsort
Services

18. Q & A