Planet Tivoli Madrid Attracts Record Pan-European Attendance
MADRID, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000--
Announcements Include Service Provider Solutions to Accelerate
Adoption of Pervasive Devices and Tivoli(R) SecureWay(R) Support
for Wireless Application Protocol
Tivoli Systems Inc. this week hosts the third annual Planet Tivoli(tm) customer conference in Europe, at the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid, for some 2,000 customers, partners and media. Last year, over 5,000 delegates representing over 56 countries and 15 industries attended Planet Tivoli events worldwide in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America and this year's pre-registration figures indicate a significant increase over 1999. Announcements at Planet Tivoli include new solutions for service providers and security management and control for WAP mobile computing users, extending Tivoli's leading technology management solutions into some of the hottest areas of e-business.
Planet Tivoli Madrid also features a live installation of a multi-vendor storage area network (SAN) called "SAN City." Running on a variety of e-business enabling applications, "SAN City" showcases Tivoli management software, IBM's "Shark" Enterprise Storage Server and products from nine other Tivoli storage partners including Ancor, Brocade, Crossroads Systems, EMC, Gadzoox, McData, Pathlight, Vixel and Storage Tek.
"As companies worldwide embrace e-business, they are looking for solutions to manage technology as it evolves to enable those initiatives," said Maurizio Carli, general manager of Tivoli Systems, Europe, Middle East and Africa. "Planet Tivoli is pivotal in helping them to shape their e-business strategies for managing technology and safeguarding IT investments against whatever uncertainties the future may bring."
Announcement Highlights:
-- Tivoli Personalized Services Manager The proliferation of new
ways to access networks and services means that service
providers will need to manage increasing numbers of devices as
well as a wider variety of devices beyond traditional PCs. By
using Tivoli Personalized Services Manager, service providers
are empowered to offer new and different types of value-added
and premium-content services incorporating the use of
pervasive devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs,) Web phones, screen phones and smart phones to access the
Internet or corporate networks.
-- Tivoli Internet Services Manager Incorporating robust
subscriber and provisioning management with personalization
capabilities, this solution enables Internet service providers
to activate services quickly, provide personalized service for
discrete groups of users, maximize customer retention and
easily provision new services.
-- Tivoli SecureWay Manages WAP Device Access to e-business
Applications Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director has been
enhanced to define and manage access to e-business
applications and data from virtually any device, from Internet
browsers to pervasive devices using WAP. In addition, Tivoli
SecureWay Privacy Manager, an access control solution
developed specifically to help e-businesses protect consumers' personally identifiable information, will also support WAP, helping companies control access to personal data accessed
through WAP devices. Access control is one vital aspect of
securing WAP, the latest element of e-business.
-- Tivoli Data Exchange Software that enables the exchange of
business-critical information between different applications, both within an enterprise and with business partners, Tivoli
Data Exchange lays the foundation for business process
integration across the enterprise.
Following Planet Tivoli North America in Philadelphia last month, Planet Tivoli Madrid is the second in a series of customer conferences planned for 2000. Further regional events are scheduled for Caracas, Venezuela; Mexico City; Sao Paulo Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Tokyo, Japan and Sydney, Australia in the coming months.
About Tivoli Systems Inc.
Tivoli software manages the foundations of e-business, extending the boundaries of traditional network and systems management from the data center across the Internet, from the desktop to pervasive devices. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software, Tivoli Ready third-party products and Team Tivoli partner services to reduce the cost and complexity of managing heterogeneous IT environments. Tivoli solutions, encompassing management of security, storage, and mobile devices, are helping these organizations to create a technology infrastructure to support the next generation of business. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM company (NYSE:IBM). Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com.
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CONTACT:
Tivoli Systems, Austin
Andrea Strahan, 512/436-9437
andrea.strahan@tivoli.com
or
Lois Paul & Partners
Julie Belan, 512/638-5311
julie-belan@lpp.com |
