Press release from Tivoli Systems, part of IBM ...
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Tivoli Revolutionizes Storage Management with
New Information Integrity Initiative (TM)
First to Align Storage Management with Business Policies
Across the Enterprise Information Grid (TM)
AUSTIN, Texas, May 3, 1999 -- Tivoli Systems Inc. today announced its
new Information Integrity Initiative aimed at helping companies meet the
storage management challenges of today's networked economy. This
initiative allows organizations to link key business practices with
storage management policies, enabling customers for the first time to
use information to drive their business, rather than to simply support
it.
Through its application-centric view, Tivoli Storage Management
(formerly ADSTAR(TM) Distributed Storage Manager -- ADSM) allows
companies to centrally manage the ever-increasing amount of information
as an integral part of the business. "Centralized management is a big
plus, and Tivoli Storage Management offers this," said Tom Haddad,
senior applications technical analyst, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation. "Tivoli Storage Management offers us the ability to handle
tremendous application growth with minimal staff. Our payback has been
tremendous."
Managing the Enterprise Information Grid
The vast amount of systems, storage devices and information located
across everything from SANs to LANs to the Internet, and from PDAs to
mainframes has created what Tivoli calls the Enterprise Information
Grid. Due to the ever-growing size, complexities and costs, companies
are looking for ways to enhance the value of their information, creating
a need for a common view across the enterprise from a network, storage
and application perspective. Now integrated with Tivoli Enterprise,
Tivoli Storage Management allows companies to manage their systems,
storage, communication networks, storage area networks, data and
applications from any location with an integrated solution that assures
availability.
"With the proliferation of storage across diverse network
infrastructures and operating environments, today's increasingly
information-driven companies need solutions like Tivoli Storage
Management to ensure application availability," said Dr. Paul Mason,
vice president of Infrastructure Software Research at IDC.
Tivoli Storage Management
Tivoli Storage Management is the industry's leading storage
management solution for the networked economy, providing customers with
integrated enterprise-wide backup, archiving, storage management and
disaster recovery capabilities across more than 39 different platforms
including OS/390, NT, Unix, NetWare, Linux and OS/400. Key areas of
Tivoli's Information Integrity Initiative include:
- Alignment of storage management with business policies and best
practices
- Centralized storage management across the Enterprise Information Grid
- Focus on business recovery when disaster strikes
- Management of storage area networks (SANs)
- End-to-End Storage management from the data center to the mobile
workforce
Through integration with Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager, customers
can view from a single console how data and storage relate to business
systems, applications and network health. Utilizing the Tivoli
Management Agent and an architecture that supports centralized
management and global policy distribution, information on servers and
workstations can be updated and managed through One Touch
Management(TM), dramatically reducing cost and complexity. In addition,
using patented block and byte-level differencing for the mobile
environment, data movement is achieved with minimal network overhead.
Finally, Adaptive Mapping(TM) technology allows customers to quickly
recover data as much as five times faster than with other products,
which is critical when downtime can mean the difference between revenue
or lost customers.
"With a reliance on applications and a requirement for information
integrity, companies must focus on business recovery and centralized
storage management," said Jim Hilbert, vice president and general
manager, Tivoli Storage Solutions. "The patented technologies in Tivoli
Storage Management provide the fastest business recovery and the only
cross-platform, end-to-end storage management solutions in the
industry."
Storage Area Networks
Storage area networks are the latest technology for storage and
information management architectures today. With SANs, customers see
the possibility of having seamless resource and information sharing in
distributed environments just as IBM's S/390 customers have enjoyed for
years. By combining industry-leading network, systems and storage
management capabilities, Tivoli is delivering the first comprehensive
SAN management solution featuring multi-vendor tape pooling and LAN-free
backup, with future enhancements to include disk and data sharing.
Availability
Tivoli Storage Management is available immediately with additional
enhancements to be delivered in the next 90 days. For more information
on Tivoli Storage Management, call 1-800-2Tivoli (1-800-284-8654),
512-436-8000 or visit the Tivoli World Wide Web site at www.tivoli.com.
About Tivoli Systems
Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly
scalable and cross-platform management solutions that span networks,
systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading
companies around the world use Tivoli software and compatible
third-party products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing
networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin,
Texas, Tivoli is an IBM Company. Tivoli distributes its products
worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems
integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information,
visit Tivoli's World Wide Web site at tivoli.com.
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Tivoli, Tivoli Enterprise, Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager, Tivoli Storage
Management are registered trademarks or trademarks of Tivoli Systems Inc.,
an IBM company. All other company and product names may be trademarks of
the respective companies with which they are associated.
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