IBM Tivoli

Tivoli is the trademark used by IBM corporation for designation of a line of the software designed to solve problems of information resource management of the enterprise.

The portfolio of the software of Tivoli is updated and changes on a periodic basis and on the basis of needs of the market of information services:

• the new software products allowing to solve new problems are added (for example, acquisition in 2007 the Micromuse companies proposing powerful solutions of monitoring of network infrastructure);

• software products owing to change of approaches to solving of tasks change (for example, in a management system for Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2 workstations the basic architecture is changed and the name was replaced with Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software 5.1 when preserving version control);

• the current versions of software products improve;

Main advantage of solutions of Tivoli — a krossplatfomennost, i.e. solutions can be deployed on any hardware architecture (RISC, Intel; 32-bit, 64-bit) and under the widespread operating server systems (AIX, Solaris, GNU/Linux, Windows NT) that allows to use more effectively computing powers and as a result for business — more effectively to receive return on invested funds.

The products Tivoli allow to manage information resources in the following areas:

• operational monitoring (for example what servers or what active network equipment works at present or does not work), main products: Monitoring, Network Manager, Composite Application Manager;
• monitoring of performance (for example for how many percent computing powers are loaded — allows to plan development of infrastructure and to prevent the failures caused by excess loading), main products: Monitoring, Composite Application Manager, Netcool/Proviso;
• control of workstations (inventory of workstations, software management at workstations, layer management of updates of operating systems of workstations), products of the Provisioning Manager family;
• management of identification data of staff of the enterprise and access control (the systems of single input of the login/password, a management system of access to information resources on the basis of an account — the login, a management system for accounts, compliance of information resources to corporate security policies), main products of Identity Manager, the family Access Manager, Security Compliance Manager;
• storage systems management (tape libraries, disk arrays), products Storage Manager, Productivity Center, Storage Volume Control;
• enterprise asset management (EAM), Maximo family products;
• monitoring of business processes of the enterprise (correlation of a status of the information resources solving one business challenge, for example, corporate mail, an automated system of service of ATMs), monitors for heads of IT departments of the enterprises, the products Business Service Manager;
• and others;
  

According to IDC, in 2009 about 17 billion dollars, and by 2013 were spent for the technologies, hardware and the software connected with cloud computing, as expected, this amount will increase to 45 billion dollars. [1]

Demand for cloud computing grows at explosive rates as the organizations look for ways of expansion of impact of information technologies on delivery of new innovation services for business at simultaneous achievement of "positive effect of scale", i.e. decrease in average costs in process of increase in production volume or sales. Strength of model of cloud computing is the possibility of use of investments into the most different technologies thanks to a possibility of fast and dynamic planning, selection and management of virtual computing resources as required.

The new advanced software of IBM for virtual deployment – available in the open beta – allows the organizations to create now quickly an environment of cloud computing and to manage it with a bigger ease, than ever earlier. This software has unprecedented potential of dynamic selection and planning of server resources – two main functional advantages which the model of cloud computing gives.

While traditional technologies turn virtual machines slowly, demanding from IT personnel of considerable volume of work on manual control as process, the software of IBM is capable to install the separate virtual machine in seconds, tens of virtual machines – within several minutes, and hundreds or thousands – with an unsurpassed speed, only for an hour.

Along with high-speed performance, the software of IBM provides the powerful system of "management of images" which helps clients with installation, configuring and automation of new virtual machines for the best compliance to requirements of business at simultaneous minimization of the expenses, reduction of complexity and risk reduction connected with deployment of information technologies.

Security of the organization with instant access to computing resources allows it to react quicker both to changes of needs of the clients, and to new opportunities for business that demands IT resources from a large data processing center. So, for example, the telecommunication operator could use effectively the high-performance environment of cloud computing for support of rapid development and deployment of applications of fourth generation, reducing terms of an output them by the market from several months to several weeks; the service provider of health care could use productively computing resources of the cloud-environment for acceleration of search and the analysis of clinical records and other medical documents, increasing service quality of patients and doing it cost-efficient.

As all quick access to computing resources is more necessary for the organizations, demand for virtual machines sharply increases. According to forecasts, the number of the turned and managed virtual machines will grow is tenfold from 2008 for 2012. [Report "Server Virtualization: From Virtual Machines to Clouds" ("Virtualization of servers: From virtual machines to environments of cloud computing"), the author Tom Bittman, Gartner Webinar webinar, on January 20, 2010] the Size of images of the virtual server makes usually from 5 to 20 GB. Increase it by thousands of virtual images created today (large enterprises use from 5 to 20 thousand virtual machines); as result – all these difficulties lay down an additional burden on IT managers to whom the task to improve the service levels is set. Solution requires Wednesday which provides quick access to IT resources. Besides, control automation with the minimum participation of the person and support of much bigger number of virtual machines by efforts of smaller number of administrators becomes this Wednesday one of the major conditions. It allows to reduce the costs and risks connected with a human factor.