Workload automation
The concept of Workload Automation is an evolution of traditional job schedulers which needed to react to the dynamic demands of IT. Workload automation needs to be able to coordinate—in real-time—a varied set of workload types with complex dependencies across a broad spectrum of operating systems and application platforms.
A scheduling model based only upon calendar events is not sufficient to meet the demands of today’s automated data centers. The requirement for batch submission of workloads driven by date/time dependencies still exists, but on-demand IT processing requirements have expanded job submission triggers far beyond the time dimension.
Workload Automation solutions should provide: a service-oriented architecture (SOA); integration capabilities at the application services level for web services and Java EE-based applications; a service-level orientation for managing workloads and finally, a critical path analysis and reporting capabilities.
Implementations
Supplementary software
- Automation Center by OpsWise - cross-platform solution that's 100% web-based and automates workload on Linux, Windows, UNIX, FTP, RDBMS, or z/OS. Can also be deployed in Cloud.
- Control-M by BMC Software - Control batch and enterprise applications on mainframe and distributed platforms
- Cisco's Tidal Enterprise Scheduler - A distributed hosted job scheduler.
- CA Autosys Workload Automation - A distributed hosted job scheduler.
- CA dSeries Workload Automation - A distributed hosted job scheduler from Cybermation. Acquired by CA in 2006.
- CA ESP Workload Automation - A mainframe hosted job scheduler from Cybermation. Acquired by CA in 2006
- UC4 V8™ Automation Engine by UC4 Software
- Redwood Workload Automation and Job Scheduler Suite by Redwood Software.
- IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler - a family of IBM products that plan, execute and track jobs on several platforms and environments.
- IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler - a job scheduler written by IBM, to control scheduling of batch jobs.
Sources
http://www.bmc.com/solutions/msm-functional/Enterprise-Scheduling--Workload-Automation.html?
http://www.ca.com/us/workload-automation-solution.aspx
http://www.ca.com/workloadautomation
http://www.ca.com/Files/Articles/manage0708_it_process_automation.pdf
http://www.uc4.com/en/about-uc4/what-we-do/workload-automation/
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/workloadautomation/
http://www.workloadautomation.org