Credit to the New Data Center

JPMorgan Chase, the financial services giant, supports 300% growth with a capacity-on-demand platform for applications. The pioneer company is in the quest for automated, virtualized New Data Center technologies.

With assets of $1.2 trillion and operations in 50 countries, the company is engaged in multiple initiatives all working toward the common goals of maximizing IT resources, reducing costs and speeding performance. As certain projects evolve, they will ideally converge and enable the New York-based financial services giant to conquer tomorrow's IT challenges.

Shawn Findlan, a vice president responsible for the global credit-trading infrastructure, started to explore how to boost his department's infrastructure. While JPMorgan Chase had virtualized its compute resources via a grid, dubbed the Computer BackBone (CBB). Findlan was looking to virtualize the application and database layers.

Findlan realized he'd need a tool that could create virtual pools of resources and then automatically distribute those resources when business needs fluctuated. He was led to Enigmatec, a company providing management software that can automatically distribute resources based on preset policies.

Dubbed Execution Management System (EMS), the software detects system failures and load changes on servers, and can fix problems using preset policies.

In Findlan's case, after working with application development and operations teams, he input multiple 'what-if' scenarios into the Enigmatic software that will prompt it to take action when alerted by a monitoring system. The data collected from multiple third-party monitoring tools is aggregated into the central system.

Using a central management console, he can watch the process as it runs across application and infrastructure components. Findlan would not share specifics about performance improvements, but he says the company experienced significant improvements in uptime across several hundred nodes being managed through the CDIR initiative.