Research Papers

This IDC White Paper presents an overview of key concerns driving IT management and how they translate into needs that can be addressed through modern approaches to job scheduling and workload automation. The paper traces evolutionary trends in job scheduling software, which is growing from traditional batch job schedulers to cross-platform and event-driven capabilities. It also explores the role of job schedulers in providing automation capabilities.

The objective of CA Workload Automation is to help IT organizations optimize real-time performance of complex business workloads across diverse IT infrastructures, including both mainframes and distributed systems. Key capabilities include dynamic event-driven control of production workloads based on event triggers and defined policies to achieve IT and business service objectives.