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Whether you think of this
new computing offering as On-Demand Computing or Utility Computing
or Reducing Complexity – or whether you use a vendor name like
HP’s Adaptive Enterprise or Sun’s N1, it all comes down to
getting more for your money and having your computing investments
work more smoothly and adapt better to fast changes in your
business needs.
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HP
IBM Microsoft
Sun
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HP
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Category
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Now
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Soon
(within 12 months)
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Future
(more than 12 months)
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Architecture
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HP Darwin Reference
Architecture
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Availability
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Self-Healing
Management Services for Open View.
Real
time trouble shooting,
automatic fault detection, escalation, problem
resolution.
HP OpenView Network
Node Manager Advanced 7.0. Proactive network fault,
performance, and problem diagnosis.
HP OpenView Operations
for UNIX. Provides
control of e-services. A distributed large-scale management
solution that monitors, controls, and reports the health of
the IT environment across boundaries, improving uptime for
all layers of the electronic enterprise and service provider
environments including network, systems, databases,
applications, services, and the Internet.
HP OpenView Data
Protector. Application-aware
data backup and instant recovery for optimal data protection
and availability.
HP StorageWorks
Virtual Replicator. Cluster-aware
host-based replication, including snapshots, and online
volume growth.
HP
StorageWorks Continuous Access XP and HP StorageWorks Data
Replication Manager (DRM) for MA and EMA array families.
Array-based remote replication.
HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Volume Manager and HP StorageWorks
Business Copy XP and VA.
Array-based local replication.
HPServiceGuard
Manager. Creates
high availability of HP 9000 series 800 computers.
An MC/ServiceGuard cluster is a networked grouping of
HP 9000 series 900 servers having sufficient redundancy of
sw and hw that a single point of failure will not
significantly disrupt service.
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Web
Services Management Framework
(WSMF). Developed by HP, with significant input from key partners.
A logical architecture for the management of
resources, including Web services, through Web services.
Defines how all IT resources in an adaptive
enterprise can expose management information about
themselves and how they can be managed. A management
interface communicates immediate knowledge about changes in
business processes and IT infrastructure whenever
application and infrastructure events occur.
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Provisioning
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HP OpenView Storage
Provisioner. Helps
create the storage utility by automatically pre-configuring
storage and allocating capacity to users as needed.
HP Ignite-UX. Permits HP-UX system
administrators to perform system installations and
deployment, often on a large scale, by creating and reusing
standard system configurations. Provides the ability to
archive standard system configuration,
to use that archive to replicate systems. Permits
post-installation customizations; supports interactive and
unattended operating modes.
HP Software Distributor (SD). HP-UX administration tool set delivers and maintains HP-UX
operating systems and layered software applications.
Delivered as part of HP-UX, SD can help manage your OS,
patches, and application software on HP 9000 systems,
organize, standardize, and distribute software, and handle
complex delivery challenges such as testing complete
solutions.
ProLiant Essentials
Rapid Deployment
Pack. Automates the process of deploying and provisioning server
software in Windows and Linux environments.
HP OpenView Service
Activator.
Improves service delivery processes. Defines, organizes, and
automates configuration tasks for servers, sw, storage,
network devices, and HP OpenView applications that manage
services. Enables the creation and deployment of services
rapidly, efficiently, and accurately. If any step in the
activation process was not successful, it will roll back to
allow the administrator to resolve the problem.
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HP OpenView Web
Services Management Engine.
Implements
HP's Web Services Management Framework specification to
discover resources, learn their attributes, and provide a
common way to interface with other applications
(4Q03)
Identity
Management
(via HP’s purchase of the SelectAccess assets –
announced 9-23-03). SelectAccess identity management
technology provides systematic and secure user access to
network services and enterprise resources, reducing IT
costs.
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Virtualization
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HP OpenView Continuous
Access Storage Appliance (HP CASA). Heterogeneous
data replication enabled via virtualization technology.
Remote and local, synchronous and asynchronous replication
and point-in-time snapshot copy provide continuous access to
business information.
HP UDC (see utility
Computing)
HP Virtual Server
Environment (see policy automation)
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Grid
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HP has announced the intention to put Grid technology into
all of its offerings.
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Storage Management
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HP
OpenView Storage Builder.
Manage
capacity and allocation for host, device or users.
HP OpenView
Storage Accountant. Measure,
calculate, and bill for storage usage as well as manage
service levels for customers and devices.
HP OpenView Media Operations. HP
OpenView Media Operations provides tracking and management
of offline storage media, such as magnetic tapes, offering
reliable backups, faster data recovery, improved staff
efficiency, and reduced costs.
HP StorageWorks XP
Arrays. Exceptional
availability, scalability and throughput for
enterprise-class data centers
HP StorageWorks EVA
Arrays. Simplifies
storage administration and increases capacity utilization --
enterprise-class array features at an affordable price for
the mid-range market.
HP StorageWorks.
Low cost, high-performance SAN storage solution. Unique
DAS-to-SAN capability increases agility.
HP OpenView
StorageAllocator. "On
the fly" virtualized access control between host and
multivendor storage
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Systems Management
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HP OpenView Operations
for UNIX. Provides
control of e-services. A distributed large-scale management
solution that monitors, controls, and reports the health of
the IT environment across boundaries, improving uptime for
all layers of the electronic enterprise and service provider
environments including network, systems, databases,
applications, services, and the Internet.
Zero Latency
Enterprise Framework (ZLE) Integrates all applications, all platforms, and all
databases in the enterprise, creating a single,
up-to-the-second view of customers and products for
automated chargeback.
HP Workload Manager. The HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) allows
enterprises to achieve a greater return on their IT
investment by optimizing server resource utilization in
real-time based on business priorities. HP-UX WLM enables a
virtual HP-UX server that automatically grows and shrinks
based on the service-level objectives (SLOs) for each
application it hosts. HP-UX WLM performs real-time
assessment of the resource usage, and then advises and acts
in accordance with the defined SLOs and business priorities.
Process Resource Manager.
HP Process Resource Manager (HP PRM) is a resource
management tool used to control the amount of resources that
processes use during peak system load.
Partition Manager. Partition Manager allows system administrators to
configure Superdome and other systems that support hardware
partitions through an easy to use, familiar graphical user
interface.
ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack
– The essential tools, including Insight Manager 7,
required deliver detailed asset, configuration, and fault
management for your HP ProLiant servers running Windows,
Linux, and NetWare. Insight
Manager 7 ships with all ProLiant servers, and may be
downloaded free-of-charge from the HP website.
ProLiant Essentials Value Packs
– Value-added software that extends the reach of the
ProLiant Essentials Foundation Pack to deliver complete
lifecycle management of ProLiant servers. Value Pack options include the ProLiant Essentials Rapid
Deployment Pack, the Integrated Lights-Out Advanced Pack,
the Performance Management Pack, and the Workload Management
Pack.
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Nimbus next generation
system level management.
Single
systems-level management application unifies HP
ServiceControl Manager and HP Insight Manager 7 and will
manage servers running HP-UX, Linux, Windows as well as
other operating systems.
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Applications Management
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OpenView Smart
Plug-Ins. Fully
integrated solutions that expand existing HP OpenView
products by adding service specific management capabilities.
Smart Plug-Ins can expand HP OpenView management to cover
the entire application stack - from network services through
storage, systems, internet middleware, and databases to
business applications.
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Performance, Quality of Service
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OpenView Performance
Insight. Performance
management and reporting
OpenView Transaction
Analyzer. Measures
transaction performance against assigned service levels
across a broad array of transaction types including web
applications, J2EE, and Microsoft’s distributed Internet
Architecture.
OpenView
Performance Manager. Distributed
management for centrally monitoring resource utilization for
a distributed multivendor environment.
HP OpenView
Internet Services. Businesses
expect their Internet service providers and internal IT
departments to provide service level guarantees on the
availability and response time of the services they provide,
along with notifications and resolutions of outages and
slowdowns. OpenView Internet Services offers a single
integrated view of the complete Internet infrastructure,
helping IT staff predict, isolate, diagnose, and
troubleshoot problem occurrences, anticipate capacity
shortfalls, and manage and report on service level
agreements. HP
OpenView ServiceDesk. A
proactive service desk to avoid disruption to e-commerce.
Manages service levels. Manages support and service
processes. Helps
manage service level agreements (SLAs) by showing you which
IT elements your service is depending on, which customers
are receiving the service, and who is managing and
supporting the service. Improved integration with HP
OpenView Internet Services Manager and Service Navigator.
HP StorageWorks Secure Path and HP StorageWorks AuoPath.
Improve availability through path management and
improve performance through load balancing across a variety
of O/S.
HP
OpenView Optimizer. Host,
storage and infrastrucure performance monitoring.
ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack –
Discovers and recommends corrective action for hardware
performance bottleneck in ProLiant servers.
HP OpenView Service
Navigator
provides management capabilities for end-to-end application
service environments. Its
graphical Application Service Views capture the elements of
a complex end-to-end service environment, such as network
elements, computer systems, databases and the applications
themselves, and display their interdependencies so IT staff
can examine and interpret data in terms of importance to the
higher level service. This
allows IT organizations to be immediately aware of the
business impact of lower level component failures and
performance degradations.
HP OpenView Reporter.
Management
reporting tool automatically transforms data captured by HP
OpenView agents running on supported platforms into
management information such as IT service quality levels
(application response times and service availability) at
regularly scheduled intervals. Reports are available through
standard web browsers as well as in printed form.
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Utility Computing
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Utility Data Center
(UDC). Automated Resource Management, utilization, and
virtualization. Utility-like
computing services that are self-adapting, self-healing and
policy-driven; allocation of computing resources and
management are automated. Supports multiple hardware vendors
and operating systems. Optional intelligent software (Internet
Usage Manager), to enable consumption based
pricing. Includes provisioning, automation &
virtualization technologies across entire data center for a
unified heterogeneous solution.
HP OpenView Enterprise
Usage Management Solution. Provides usage metering
and analysis of server, storage and network resources for
tighter cost control. Permits
informed IT cost allocation and consolidation decisions,
ensures resource expenditures are adequately justified and
funded, and protects investments against abusive or
fraudulent usage behaviors.
The HP OpenView Internet Usage Manager (IUM), a
flexible, scalable mediation platform that complements
existing infrastructure and processes, improving investment
returns and minimizing risk. It measures and monitors usage
across your infrastructure, and provides a detailed view
into how IT resources are used.
Integrates with internal billing or accounting
processes.
HP On Demand solutions.
Instant capacity – delivering immediate access to
additional capacity. Metered capacity – paying for UIT
assets based on actual IT usage “dial-up and dial-down”.
Managed capacity – redirecting resources to other
core competencies.
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Policy Automation
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HP Virtual Server
Environment (HP/UX
only). Goal-based
Policy Engine. Optimizes
Server Resource Allocation and Utilization, in Real Time,
based on business priorities.
Improves Real Time monitoring.
Guarantees continuous availability.
ProLiant Essentials
Workload Management Pack dynamically allocates system resources on Windows 2000 server
platforms bringing maximum utilization, lower total cost of
ownership and improved availability to IT environments.
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HP Open View Service
Navigator Value Pack
(10-03). Common
data repository to share information for proactive
management and insure compliance of service levels with
service level agreements.
gWLM.
A multi-system, goal-based workload manager. Building
upon HP-UX WLM, (the intelligent policy engine of the HP
Virtual Server Environment) gWLM extends workload management
beyond the box to co-ordinate resource allocation and
monitoring for multi-system services in a heterogeneous
environment.
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Services and Support
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HP Planning Services.
Agility Assessment
Service. Assessment
questionnaire. Analysis
of questionnaire answers and identification of candidate
solutions. One-day,
highly focused, moderated workshop.
Presentation of the findings and recommendations.
Integrated Support.
Assess
inventory and profile environment.
Adopt ITIL principles
Consolidate contracts.
Align contracts to business needs.
Streamline processes.
Single-point-of-contact.
Consistent measurement and reporting.
Resource based pricing.
HP
Care Pack OpenView Advantage Services.
(formerly Customer Care Advantage).
First level personalized support services to HP
OpenView customers for managed IT system and network
environments, Advantage Services ensure an optimum
infrastructure environment. HP OpenView engineers assigned
to the account deliver proactive and personalized support
services as key components of the value chain.
HP OpenView Premier Service High-end personalized
support service for HP OpenView customers. Personalized
services via a named support engineer who understands the
customer's business and IT environment. Directly helps
customers get the maximum from their IT infrastructure while
reducing time, costs and risk.
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Business Impact
Analysis (Pilots
in 4Q03). Correlates
business flows with operational data to assess impact of
infrastructure failures.
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Solutions
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On Demand Solutions.
. Instant
capacity – delivering immediate access to additional
capacity. Metered capacity – paying for IT assets based on
actual IT usage “dial-up and dial-down”.
Managed capacity – redirecting resources to other
core competencies.
Virtualization
Solutions. Resource
planning and optimization.
Adaptive network architecture service. Consulting and
integration. HP UDC consulting engagement.
Business Continuity
and Availability Solutions. Business continuity consulting
Business recovery services. Mission-critical support services. Security services.
Enterprise Integration
Solutions. Global J2EE/.NET
expertise. Agility
assessment; architecture services.
Reference architectures and solution patterns.
Strategic SI partnerships.
IT Consolidation
Solutions. Consolidation
value workshop. Investment
justification and architectural blueprint.
Design and transition planning.
Implementation.
Management Solutions.
HP
Operations Management.
HP Service Management.
HP Business Process Management.
Strategic Outsourcing
Solutions. Infrastructure
management. Integrated
support services. Access
and support
Applications management.
Business continuity and recovery.
Software publishing.
Security Solutions.
Planning
and governance solutions.
Trustworthy infrastructure. Identity
and access management.
Security management.
Business and commerce enabling security.
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Financing
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Customized leasing and financing solutions. Technology
refresh. Global reach. Financial Asset Management.
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IBM
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Category
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Future
(more than 12 months)
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Architecture
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A
series of industry and business architectures
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Availability
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IBM Autonomic technologies
are enablers to deliver Automation.
Autonomic technologies provide native Automation in
all IBM Products providing:
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Self-configuring
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Self-healing
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Self-optimizing
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Self-protecting
IBM Availability
Management Offering -- Manage real-time problems in the context of your business
priorities. Monitor the health of critical business systems
and Web application environment, perform root cause problem
determination and initiate autonomic cures.
Measures response time and performance of Web
applications. Helps ensure the availability of critical business
information.
IBM
Tivoli Monitoring
-- Automates monitoring of essential system resources, to
detect bottlenecks and potential problems, and to
automatically recover from critical situations
IBM
Tivoli Enterprise Console
-- Correlates e-business, system and network data, to
quickly identify the root cause of business performance
issues
IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager Family --
Automates data backup and restore functions, supports a
broad range of platforms and storage devices, and
centralizes storage management operations.
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Policy based systems for defining,
monitoring, enforcing and negotiating SLAs
Policy-based end-to-end autonomic
management
Exploit
dynamic provisioning (ITIO), policy and TAME to integrate
automated problem resolution with and dynamic and optimized
provisioning toward meeting SLAs
Formal expression of SLA metrics and
capabilities (using representations such as WSLA) to
facilitate interactions between service providers and
consumers
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Provisioning
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IBM
Tivoli Orchestrator–
provisions and configures servers, operating systems,
middleware, applications, and network devices acting as
routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers. Pre-built
workflows provide control and configuration of major
vendors' products, while customized workflows can implement
a company's data center practices and procedures. These
procedures can then be executed in a consistent error-free
manner.
IBM
Web Server Provisioning [Automated
provisioning of server hardware and software stack can
streamline IT operations. Optimize resources and
performance, and lower management costs by automating the
deployment of Web server configurations in preparation for
production deployment.
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IBM
Server Allocation for WebSphere Allocation Server
– Virtualizes the
resources available across an entire grid of WebSphere
servers, allowing customers to significantly and
simultaneously increase application performance and resource
utilization. It allows organizations to deploy new applications within
the existing infrastructure by making all servers available
as a single pool of resources and by providing management
tools to ensure server capacity is automatically allocated
to meet pre-defined application service levels. Built on the
IBM Tivoli Orchestrator, the technology also provides new
parallel processing capabilities to help computation
intensive applications take advantage of the total available
resources to improve performance.
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Virtualization
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IBM
Entry Virtualization Offering
-- includes a BladeCenter and supporting software that
allows the client to consolidate workloads and manage
servers in cost and space efficient manner. The Standby
Capacity feature of the BladeCenter allows for flexible
growth and dynamic management of their processing
environment.
IBM
Linux Virtual Services --
a program enabling customers running Linux applications to
tap into IBM's unparalleled computing resources on a
pay-as-you go utility-like basis.
IBM
TotalStorage Virtualization Family
-- helps customers with complex storage environments, which
are looking to mask complexity and share storage capacity
across heterogeneous systems, reduce their management and
operational costs.
IBM
SAN Integration
Server -- designed to help integrate IBM
virtualization technology, Fibre Channel switches and
storage Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
technologies into a preconfigured, comprehensive solution.
Delivered and installed as a single unit, it offers upgrade
options for connectivity, storage capacity, and performance
levels. The solution was developed to provide the benefits
of SAN with the ease of single-system manageability. SAN
Integration Server will initially be capable of scaling to
over 100 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity and connecting
up to 42 hosts.
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IBM TotalStorage
SAN File System – allows a
customer to improve their access and management of files and
database on a SAN. Will
allow implementation of consistent policies for file and
database management. Implement
changes to storage and servers without impacting application
availability. Share
data across applications without moving the data from one
server to another. Eliminate
the need to create duplicate files.
Maximize utilization of file and database storage
across the SAN.
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Consolidate multiple operating systems
across a common hypervisor.
Service Oriented Storage – provide
storage as a service via the services oriented architecture.
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Grid
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IBM
Grid Toolbox -- provides a comprehensive set of software for security, information
infrastructure, resource management, data management,
communication, fault detection and portability across a wide
array of systems.
IBM
Industry-specific GRID offerings –
Enhances a customer’s competitiveness and agility in their
industry. IBM uses a comprehensive approach to help
determine the most appropriate combination of technologies
for analytics acceleration in each industry.
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Continued evolution
of GRID and autonomic functions facilitating the integration
and management of server, OS, application, network and
storage security, optimization, provisioning, billing,
metering
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Storage
Management
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IBM
Tivoli Storage Management
– A family of products that protects
your organization's data from hardware failures and other
errors by storing backup and archive copies of data on
offline storage. Scaling to protect thousands of computers
running a dozen OS platforms, its intelligent data movement
and store techniques, and complete automation, reduce
administration costs while increasing service levels. Tivoli
storage products are unmatched in providing a combination of
scalability, intelligent data technology, disaster
preparation, and broad platform and application support, all
through one centralized, automated solution.
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Systems Management
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IBM Systems
Management Solutions – IBM has an
extensive set of Systems management solutions from Tivoli in
the following areas:
Security Management – helping
clients provide access to the right resources at the right
time.
Storage Management – protecting and maximizing the integrity and
availability of your e-business data.
Performance and
Availability – monitoring and
optimizing the performance of your e-business
infrastructure.
Configuration and
Operations – managing the
change and complexity of your e-business infrastructure.
Details on these solutions can be found
elsewhere in this table.
IBM Systems
Management Services -- services that
encompass the entire systems management life cycle - from
assessment, strategy and design, to implementation and
deployment services.
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Exploit
dynamic provisioning (ITIO), policy and TAME to integrate
automated problem resolution with and dynamic and optimized
provisioning toward meeting SLAs
Local and
solution-level problem determination using common event
infrastructures, symptom formats, symptom services such as
call-home
Business Resiliency
policies
Self-managing
autonomic systems that integrate SLA awareness across all
aspects of IT and business component and process lifecycles
as well as management disciplines including configuration
management, security management, workload (performance)
management, availability management, capacity management,
and problem determination.
Business Resiliency
policies
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Applications
Management
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IBM
Tivoli Business Systems Manager
-- Manages groups of related applications that enable
critical business functions, such as ERP, CRM or e-business
environments
IBM
Tivoli Service Level Advisor -- Simplifies and automates the process of managing
service level agreements, enabling IT organizations to
proactively manage and report on service levels
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Business activity
management workplaces made up from portal elements
supporting tasks such as worklist management as well as
process monitoring and analysis, enabling employees (and to
a certain extent partners) to participate in and control
execution of business process applications; much of this is
based on a common event management infrastructure that
unifies business- and system-events produced while executing
business process applications.
EWLM
to monitor system resources and ARM-enabled applications,
follow the transaction across servers boundaries, integrate
with Tivoli products for more sophisticated levels of
monitoring and reporting.
Being able to monitor a transaction across servers
and correlate the events will result in quicker and more
accurate problem determination.
Converged Systems Management across an
heterogeneous server and storage environment
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