Performance management in MAX involves the monitoring, management and optimization of the IT infrastructure to deliver maximum performance and availability, without adding to the underlying hardware.

The fundamental benefit of performance management is improved operational performance and systems efficiency without augmenting hardware or deployment costs. To get the most out of your IT investments, managing the performance of your IT infrastructure using MAX is key.

Other major benefits include:

• Maximizing the usefulness of deployed hardware and software
• Optimizing production systems at no additional IT spending
• Preventing slowdowns and downtime episodes
• Minimizing the total cost of ownership (TCO)

In fact performance management can help cut down IT costs by identifying excess or redundant hardware capacity for possible redeployment, and carry out other capacity planning activities, hence delaying or preventing the need for upgrades.