Storage Management Software integrates chargeback function.
Press Release Summary:
IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center v2.2 helps simplify and automate management of storage devices, data, and storage networks. Offering unified, capacity-based pricing, integrated storage infrastructure management solution combines base IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data product with IBM Tivoli® Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback and IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases into one offering.
Original Press Release:
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V2.2 Provides Capacity-Based Pricing for All Products in the Family; Integrates Chargeback and Database Functions in IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data; Offers Standard Edition Combined Offering
Overview
IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center V2.2 is an integrated storage infrastructure management solution designed to help simplify and automate the management of storage devices, data, and storage networks.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V2.2 offers:
· New unified, capacity-based pricing across the product suite, including IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric, that were previously processor based.
· IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data V2.2, combining the base IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data product with IBM Tivoli® Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback and IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases into a single offering.
· IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 2.2 featuring a new combined offering called IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V2.2 represents the first release of this integrated suite to include capacity-based pricing for all components of the suite. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric are now priced, based on customer capacity, measured by terabyte. This can make it easier for customers to measure the value of these components by simplifying how they purchase this software with their IBM TotalStorage hardware purchases. It makes the pricing methodologies consistent across the product suite.
A second major enhancement of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V2.2 combines, into a single offering, the base product of Productivity Center for Data (announced in V2.1) with Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback and Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases. With V2.2, customers can purchase one storage resource management tool that includes the database and chargeback support previously offered separately, increasing the competitiveness of IBM's offering. Pricing reflects this change with a single price per terabyte for IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V2.2 offers a new combined offering that combines Productivity Center for Data, Productivity Center for Fabric, and Productivity Center for Disk. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition is a single offering with a single, reduced price per terabyte capacity. This combined offering makes it easier to purchase IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with IBM TotalStorage hardware.
At a glance
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V2.2 now provides:
· Capacity-based pricing for IBM TotalStorage Productivity for Data and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric
· Inclusion of the functions of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Chargeback and IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases in with the base for IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
· A combined offering including IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data, IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric, and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk, called IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition, at a reduced price
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001
Planned availability dates
· February 11, 2005: Electronic general availability via Passport Advantage®
· March 11, 2005: Media general availability via Passport Advantage and AAS
