Software enables on-demand computing.
Press Release Summary:
Tivoli® Provisioning Manager v1.1 provisions and configures servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, and network devices acting as routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers. Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator v1.1 senses, anticipates, plans, and controls responses to real-time production requirements. Products help boost server-to-administrator ratios by automating steps to deploy solution into production.
Original Press Release:
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V1.1 and IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator V1.1 Enable On Demand Computing to Improve Server Utilization
At a glance
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager and IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator offer the following benefits:
o Help reduce costs, improve server utilization, and boost server-to-administrator ratios by automating all the steps necessary to provision, configure, and deploy a complete solution into productive use
o Help provide investment protection, lower implementation costs, and a fast return on investment by utilizing existing hardware, software, and network devices without rewiring or changing the network architecture
o Help improve ability to meet service levels by monitoring and dynamically providing peak demand capacity from server resource pools
o Help reduce security exposures by tracking and applying security patches to distributed network servers
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Overview
In today's dynamic and fluctuating marketplace, new on demand technologies are required. Ever expanding, distributed islands of processing power need to be tapped to improve resiliency and responsiveness to a demand curve that can spike with only so much warning as an unexpected news release. In today's economic times, you can not afford to maintain server capacity for just-in-case situations. IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager and IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator, on demand products, help you deal with these challenges.
These products help reduce your costs and improve server utilization. They help boost server-to-administrator ratios by automating the steps to provision, configure, and deploy a solution into production. This automated solution can support servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, and network devices acting as firewalls, routers, switches, and load balancers. By utilizing existing hardware, software, and network devices without rewiring, you can minimize implementation times and achieve a faster return on investment.
These under-utilized assets can be put to work to help improve service levels with dynamic, just-in-time provisioning. Service levels can be constantly monitored, resource requirements anticipated for peak workloads, and then automatically deployed.
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager and IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator allow you to create, customize, and store workflows. These workflows, personalized with your policies and procedures, can automate processes in your testing and data centers. The execution of these processes can be gradually implemented in a manual, semi-automatic, and finally automatic mode. This allows a company to progress at its own evolutionary pace to become a dynamic and automated on demand business. These personalized, powerful libraries of workflows automate existing data center processes, help reduce human error, help increase server utilization, help improve business service levels, and allow quick response to new business requirements and unplanned market forces.
Computing power can now operate in a prioritized, automated manner when and where it is needed.
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V1.1 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 your company's data center practices and procedures. These procedures can then be executed in a consistent error-free manner.
IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator V1.1 includes IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager. Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator senses, anticipates, plans, and controls responses to real-time production requirements. It provides additional benefits by orchestrating IT workflows to dynamically maintain server availability and meet required service levels.
The IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager and IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator also include DB2® UDB Workgroup Unlimited Edition V8.1 with FP2, IBM Directory Server V5.1, and components of IBM WebSphere® Application Server V5.0.1.
Description
Planned availability dates
September 26, 2003: Electronic software and documentation
October 10, 2003: Media and documentation
The primary goal of most IT organizations is to meet required performance and availability service levels for its managed applications at the lowest possible cost and risk while maintaining the highest customer satisfaction.
In trying to achieve this goal, traditional systems management processes have over provisioned the data center. Over-provisioning is the dedication of sufficient computing capacity to each individual application to support its individual highest potential user demand. Over-provisioning, in a distributed environment, typically yields an average server utilization of less than 20 percent and creates static limits to scalability. Until now, the reality of over-provisioning has been high costs accompanied by unpredictable service levels.
The IBM Tivoli on demand offerings, announced today, change this environment by offering data centers high service levels and help reducing costs. IBM Tivoli on demand offerings change the resource provisioning and allocation procedures in the data center. Rather than dedicating servers to an application, these products allow you to pool servers and automatically provision them, just-in-time, to support critical and business-prioritized applications. When the servers are no longer needed, they are returned to the resource pool for use by any other identified application. As a result, service levels can be met with fewer, more highly utilized servers.
