Many organizations need to better understand the interdependencies across applications and various operating systems, servers, middleware and network infrastructures. This holds for a particular business unit, as well as cross-business units. Having this knowledge will enable IT organizations to make more efficient data center and server consolidation and relocation infrastructure investments in the delivery and support of IT services to their business units.

Develop cost efficient techniques to meet increasingly stringent availability, capacity, manageability, performance, recoverability and scalability requirements

Define business process to application and application to infrastructure mappings

Establish alternatives for workload separation and balancing