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Tivoli® Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator improve data center utilization through use of automation technologies. Former automates manual tasks needed to provision, configure, and deploy solution into production, while latter monitors resource utilization rates and workloads and dynamically provisions resources to support workload fluctuations. Products can be used in manual, semi-automatic, or automatic modes.



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IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator V2.1 Enables on Demand Computing to Improve Server Utilization



Overview

In today's competitive business environment, reducing costs, improving the return on IT investments, saving labor, and supporting business growth are paramount. New on demand, IBM automation technologies can help achieve these goals in spite of dynamic and fluctuating workloads.

Today, many data centers have deployed servers, networks, and storage in a "just-in-case" manner, where workload peaks and valleys are supported with excess system, storage, and network capacity. Unfortunately, these IT investments sit idle much of the time, resulting in a total cost of ownership that can be higher than necessary. Tivoli® Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator, both on demand products, can help solve this problem.

Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator help lower your costs and improve data center utilization through the use of advanced automation technologies. Tivoli Provisioning Manager helps boost IT-to-administrator ratios and improves quality by automating the manual tasks needed to provision, configure, and deploy a solution into production. Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator can improve service levels by monitoring resource utilization rates and workloads and then intelligently and dynamically provisioning resources to support workload fluctuations, all in accordance with business priorities.

These products support servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, and network devices. In addition, Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator now support automated storage capacity provisioning.

Tivoli Provisioning Manager and the Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator allow you to create, customize, and store workflows. More core, out-of-the-box workflows are included, and additional workflows can be obtained from the IBM Orchestration and Provisioning Automation Library (OPAL). In addition, IBM has provided third parties with a program, tools, and training to enable them to create new workflows for automating processes in your test environment as well as your data centers.

And, Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator can operate in manual, semi-automatic, or automatic mode so you can automate your business at your own pace.

The Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator also include DB2® UDB Workgroup Unlimited Edition V8.1 with FP3, IBM Directory Server V5.2, and components of WebSphere® Application Server V5.1.

Planned availability dates

· June 18, 2004, electronic software delivery

· June 25, 2004, media and documentation

At a glance

Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator offer the following functions and benefits:

· Reduce costs, improve data center utilization rates, and boost server-to-administrator ratios by automating steps necessary to provision, configure, test, deploy, and manage datacenter systems, networks, storage, and solutions

· Provides investment protection, lower implementation costs and a fast return on investment through improved utilization of existing hardware, software, and network devices without rewiring or changing the network architecture

· Supports business growth at minimum cost by making use of existing datacenter hardware and software resources through on demand computing and automation

· Improves ability to meet service levels by monitoring and dynamically providing peak demand capacity from server resource pools

· Provides access to a complete library (OPAL) of automation workflows that can be downloaded from the World Wide Web

· Reduces security exposures by tracking and applying security patches to distributed network servers

For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: RE001

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