GMAC-RFC Selects Tivoli Enterprise for IT Automation and Proactive Management.Business/Technology Editors AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 Immediate Benefits for Mid-Sized Businesses Include Automated Software Distribution and Distributed Monitoring Tivoli Systems Inc.'s mid-sized customer GMAC-Residential Funding Corporation (GMAC-RFC) has netted immediate benefits from its implementation of Tivoli Enterprise (TM) and has its eye on larger benefits centered on proactive management of its e-business and other business-critical applications. GMAC-RFC, a leader in mortgage- and asset-backed securitization Securitization The process of creating a financial instrument by combining other financial assets and then marketing them to investors. Notes: Mortgage backed securities are a perfect example of securitization. May also be spelled as "securitisation. , is managing 70 Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) servers and 3,000 desktops with Tivoli Enterprise, the finance industry's standard for information technology (IT) management. "Our immediate goal was to standardize desktop configuration using Tivoli Inventory and Tivoli Software Tivoli Software is the systems management brand of the IBM Software Group. IBM purchased Austin-based Tivoli Systems, Inc. in 1996[1] and allowed it to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary for a few years before forming the Software Group. Distribution," said Theodore Wendel, GMAC-RFC's director of IT. "We also use Tivoli Distributed Monitoring to proactively ensure the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. of our systems. As a mid-sized IT shop, we are constantly challenged to do more with less. Tivoli Enterprise has helped us do that and has been quick to provide us with real business benefits." GMAC-RFC has deployed the Tivoli(R) Management Agent to 3,000 desktops across 33 offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . In addition to Tivoli Inventory and Tivoli Software Distribution, GMAC-RFC is using Tivoli Distributed Monitoring to monitor key applications on its Web servers. If response time is not acceptable, IT staff are automatically notified. "GMAC-RFC is on the leading edge of a trend where mid-sized businesses will be demanding the end-to-end technology management that Tivoli Enterprise provides," said Tom Cashman Tom Cashman (born 1957) is a former Irish sportsman. He played hurling with his local club Blackrock and with the Cork senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Tom Cashman was born in Blackrock in Cork City in 1957. , Tivoli director of Global Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . "Our mid-sized customers tell us that they have the same levels of complexity in their IT environment and expect the same levels of reliability and integration in their IT management solution as the largest global enterprises. Tivoli is responding to that demand with solutions that are tailored to the needs of mid-sized businesses." Wendel added that MicroAge Technology Services, a Tivoli partner offering Tivoli software and providing services relative to Tivoli deployment, played an important role in GMAC-RFC's deployment of Tivoli NetView(R) and Tivoli Decision Support. Tivoli NetView's remote wake up capability (Wake-on-LAN technology) is being used in conjunction with Tivoli Software Distribution to enhance successful distributions of new applications simultaneously to a number of targeted systems, whether the systems are powered on or off. Tivoli Decision Support is being used to produce reports for trend analysis. "Interest in enterprise systems management is growing among our target customers, those with 1,000-5,000 desktops, to tackle problems such as standardizing desktop configuration or distributing applications to users without having to visit each machine," said Rick Yetter, MicroAge senior enterprise systems management consultant. "MicroAge's best-of-class solution offers these customers the services of a dedicated implementation team as well as Tivoli software." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Wendel, another key factor in GMAC-RFC's successful implementation is the availability of products and software that are Tivoli Ready(TM). "When we look at products, one of our criteria is `Is it Tivoli Ready,'" he said. "With Tivoli Ready products, we don't have to deploy the Tivoli agent or figure out how to consolidate information to the Tivoli Enterprise Console. It just works." The Tivoli Ready logo designates third-party products that meet key integration and enablement standards for manageability by Tivoli software. Products carrying the Tivoli Ready logo cover the gamut of IT resources from hardware and network devices to software applications. The tight integration of Tivoli's product suite and its openness--being able to continue to use the best-of-breed products in which he had already invested--have also been keys to success, Wendel added. Today, with the implementation of the IT management infrastructure complete, Wendel is looking to add additional capabilities and to fully leverage the capabilities in place to help achieve GMAC-RFC's e-business and other IT management goals. "As we look to better address issues such as e-business management, operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. , problem management, and service management, the first thing we do is look into how Tivoli can help," said Wendel. About GMAC-RFC GMAC-RFC, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of General Motors Acceptance Corporation, is America's largest non-agency issuer of mortgage-backed securities Mortgage-backed securities (MSBs) Securities backed by a pool of mortgage loans. (MBS See Mb/sec. MBS - mobile broadband services ) and a leading asset-backed securities (ABS) issuer and warehouse lender. The company leverages its strengths in securitization, lending and investment to offer a broad portfolio of innovative capital solutions. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis and operates in the United States, Europe and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . www.rfc.com. 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. Tivoli, Tivoli Enterprise, Tivoli NetView and Tivoli Ready are trademarks or registered trademarks of Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) company, in the United States, other countries, or both. In Denmark, Tivoli is a trademark licensed from Kj0benhavns Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
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