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Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News IBM:
IT Automation with Advanced Storage Provisioning "TotalStorage
Productivity Center" with Advanced Provisioning Automates Storage
Provisioning (28.05.04)
- IBM announced "IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center" with
Advanced Provisioning, integrated software that automates and simplifies manual storage capacity
provisioning. The new solution helps organizations automate at their own pace
and reduces the amount of valuable time required to provision additional
capacity to keep up with growing storage demands.
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IBM
TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning ties together
individual storage provisioning tasks into a series of flexible, automated
workflows. This results in a fast and repeatable method of provisioning
storage resources and reduces the possibility of human error. Enterprises can
also customize these workflows to accommodate their own unique needs and
business policies as well as build in manual checkpoints for monitoring the
provisioning process. For
example, an insurance company with end of month peaks in its storage demands
can use TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning to
execute a customized workflow which automatically executes all the steps
necessary to provision additional storage volume on the last day of each
month. This reduces the work associated with provisioning storage volume from
a series of manual tasks to one simple, automated action. "With
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning, traditional
manual provisioning tasks that require up to 50 steps and take days to
complete can now be reduced dramatically," said Laura Sanders, vice
president, IBM TotalStorage Open Software. "By consolidating
cross-discipline provisioning processes into simple workflows, enterprises
using the solution can increase efficiency and help save time and money while
moving toward an on demand storage environment." IBM
TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning consists of the
recently introduced IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center combined with IBM
Tivoli Provisioning Manager, a product that automatically provisions and
configures servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, storage
capacity and network devices. The combined package provides a central point of control to monitor
and maintain storage and data center systems and allows for the automation of
manual provisioning and deployment of both servers and storage. The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning
includes:
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IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager
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IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
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IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager
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IBM Tivoli SAN Manager
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IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager With the ability to manage and optimize heterogeneous storage resources, this advanced automation solution leverages existing IT investments to help minimize management costs, increase administrator efficiency, and optimize availability. (ma) IBM Kontakt: Sabine Büttner- Pressebetreuung/Media
Relations - IBM Software Central Region Pascalstraße
100, D-70569 Stuttgart Tel. (0711)
785-5898, Fax (0711) 785-1233, E-Mail: Sabine_Buettner@de.ibm.com |
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