METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND ON-DEMAND OPTIMIZATION OF BUSINESS IT INFRASTRUCTURE ACCORDING TO BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
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A computer implemented method and system for optimizing performance of a business IT infrastructure, wherein business objectives are obtained as input and the IT business infrastructure and/or business level components associated therewith are optimized according to the business objectives. In one embodiment, an objectives definition is created that defines business objectives and business rules determining how IT level metrics affect the business objectives and, optionally, service level agreements or other contract definitions based on the objectives definition. A runtime performance of the business objectives is determined during runtime of the business IT infrastructure by monitoring the business IT infrastructure, its compliance with the contract definitions, and the business objectives achieved by the business IT infrastructure. If a statistically significant change is detected between the runtime performance and a reference optimization of the business objectives, the business model is updated and the reference optimization of the business objectives is redetermined.
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39. A method for optimization of business metrics, comprising:
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configuring hardware and software resources within an information technology (IT) infrastructure in a specified IT configuration; defining a business metric corresponding to a business objective that is to be met by the IT infrastructure; establishing a business model comprising; a system model, which models the IT configuration of the IT infrastructure; a user behavior model, which models behavior of users of the IT infrastructure; and a business level model, which determines, responsively to the system model and the user behavior model, an impact on the business metric of events occurring in the IT infrastructure; generating situations for input to the business model, each situation comprising one or more events relating to the IT infrastructure, together with one or more conditions attached to the events; processing the situations using the business model in order to identify a change in the IT configuration that will enhance the business metric; and reconfiguring the resources in the IT infrastructure so as to implement the change. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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