Data and Database Management Software
Software offers on-demand datacenter automation solution.
Press Release Summary:
Tivoli® Provisioning Manager v3.1 enables users to create, customize, and utilize best-practice automation workflows to respond to changing market needs. On-demand automation solution offers prebuilt workflows that provide control and configuration of vendors' products. Software also includes auto-discovery of datacenter resources, integration with Tivoli Configuration Manager, and datacenter change and configuration management capabilities.
Original Press Release:
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V3.1 Helps Automate Your Datacenter
At a glance
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V3.1 offers the following benefits:
Allows IT become more agile by simplifying and enabling rapid change to infrastructure resources to help meet the needs of the on demand business.
Helps reduce datacenter administration costs, improve server utilization, and reduce infrastructure management complexity by automating manual and repetitive datacenter change management tasks.
Helps you effectively deploy both simple and complex applications by understanding software dependencies using Autonomic Computing technology, Solution Installation framework.
Automates process steps, enabling desired state management and providing audit records of changes to datacenter assets.
Helps lower implementation costs and drive a quick ROI by utilizing existing hardware, software, storage, and network devices with out-of-the-box best-practice workflows and new intuitive GUI.
Helps reduce security exposures by tracking and applying security patches to datacenter servers.
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
Overview
In today's business environment, being able to respond to changing market needs is a prerequisite to being competitive. However, the delivery of new products and services often drives up IT costs in the form of new applications, IT infrastructure, and support staff. As a result, companies have been forced to be more selective in their business pursuits, often forgoing projects that would have required changes to IT infrastructure. New on demand automation solutions from IBM help companies leverage their existing IT assets to become more agile and responsive to the business.
IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager allows you to create, customize, and quickly utilize best-practice automation workflows. Prebuilt workflows provide control and configuration of many vendors' products, while customized workflows can implement your company's datacenter best practices and procedures. Additional automation workflows can be obtained from the IBM Orchestration and Provisioning Automation Library (OPAL), an online repository where customers, Business Partners, and ISVs can publish and share workflows for automation. The IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager also includes DB2 Universal Database® Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 with Fix Pack 7A, IBM Tivoli Directory Server 5.2, and components of IBM WebSphere® Application Server V5.1.1.3
New in V3.1
Improved auto-discovery of datacenter resources
Improved integration with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager adding more out-of-the-box workflows
Provided Common Datacenter Model (DCM)
Reserved resources, allowing you to reserve desired resources
Discovered "drift"
Datacenter change and configuration management capabilities
Planned availability dates
May 10, 2005: Electronic software delivery
May 20, 2005: Media (Passport Advantage)
June 3, 2005: Media (Build to Order)
