Non-disruptive IT Environment Change Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IT environments lack the capability to non-disruptively manage changes in management policy, leading to inflexible availability management, unpredictable recovery objectives, and high costs due to manual labor-intensive techniques and disparate point solutions.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that determines and applies changes to an IT environment in response to business application goal changes, enabling non-disruptive management by grouping resources, sharing redundancy, and dynamically adjusting configurations to achieve desired recovery objectives.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual management techniques are used to align availability management with IT infrastructure, then customization flexibility is improved, but response time and operational efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated impact analysis and recovery scheme generation. When changes are detected in the IT environment, the system automatically assesses impacts on business applications and generates recovery schemes without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining customization flexibility while dramatically reducing response time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous monitoring of the IT environment and automatically triggers impact analysis when changes are detected. This feedback mechanism ensures that the availability management strategy is continuously aligned with current infrastructure state, providing timely responses to changing conditions while maintaining customized recovery approaches.
2Reliability
If disparate point products are used for availability management, then specific failure scope coverage is improved, but system integration complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides a universal platform that can manage multiple types of failures across different business applications and IT infrastructure components through a single integrated approach. The impact analysis engine can handle various failure scenarios (hardware failures, software failures, network outages) and generate appropriate recovery schemes without requiring separate specialized systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the functions of monitoring, impact analysis, recovery scheme generation, and execution into a single integrated availability management system. By combining these previously separate functions, the system reduces integration complexity while maintaining comprehensive coverage of failure scenarios across the entire IT environment.
3Measurement precision
If manual assessment of impact is performed for environment changes, then customization accuracy is improved, but labor requirements and processing time deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual impact assessment with automated computer-based analysis. The impact analysis engine automatically evaluates the potential impact of environment changes on business applications by analyzing configured relationships between IT components and business processes, providing accurate assessments without human intervention and significantly improving processing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs impact assessment in advance before actual failures occur by continuously monitoring the IT environment and pre-evaluating potential impacts of detected changes. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare recovery schemes proactively, ensuring accurate impact analysis is completed before any actual failure event, thereby improving both accuracy and efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
A change to a goal specified for an IT environment is to be made. Responsive to the changed goal, the IT environment is changed. This change is performed non-disruptively. Further, during the change, management to the existing goal is continued.