Industry's Leading SAN Solution Providers Partner with Tivoli to Extend Information Integrity Across Distributed Enterprises.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 1999-- Solutions Help Companies Leverage Information for e-Business Tivoli Systems Inc. today announced that many of the industry's leading Storage Area Network (SAN) providers have joined the Team Tivoli partner program to make their SAN solutions and products Tivoli Ready. As a result, customers will be able to manage these SAN solutions for the first time helping to ensure the availability and integrity of critical information across the Enterprise Information Grid(TM), spanning from the S/390 to desktops to mobile devices. "The amount of data a company must manage as a result of the e-business explosion is staggering," said Jim Hilbert, vice president and general manager, Tivoli Storage Solutions. "At the same time, the value of this information has skyrocketed, making information the most valuable corporate asset for creating competitive advantage. Consequently, it's more important than ever for companies to ensure the health of this knowledge gold mine. By implementing a SAN and leveraging the capabilities of Tivoli's SAN management solution, companies will be able to better manage the integrity and flow of mission-critical information and data across the enterprise." With over 1,000 partners, Team Tivoli is the world's largest community of experts and solution providers delivering people, products and best practices exclusively for enterprise IT management. Team Tivoli includes over 150 Tivoli Ready partner solutions that integrate with Tivoli Enterprise. Tivoli Ready products are those that have met key integration standards for manageability by Tivoli management software. To achieve Tivoli Ready certification, partners can either integrate their products with 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. or embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. the Tivoli Management Agent (TMA TMA Turnaround Management Association TMA Texas Medical Association TMA Transportation Management Association TMA Training and Management Assistance (a component of OHRD, which is a component of OWR) TMA Tooling & Manufacturing Association ) within their solutions. Either approach allows a company's SAN devices to be discovered and managed by a Tivoli Managed Enterprise. The following companies have joined the Team Tivoli partner organization and will work with Tivoli to make their SAN solutions and products Tivoli Ready. --Brocade - BROCADE SilkWorm silkworm, name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. family of Fibre Channel switches Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade, Cisco, McData and Qlogic.
--CNT - CNT (Carbon NanoTube) See nanotube. Management Facility (CMF CMF Christian Medical Fellowship CMF Compressed Mortality File CMF Content Management Framework CMF Council of Michigan Foundations CMF Congressional Management Foundation (Washington DC, USA) CMF Code Monétaire et Financier ) & UltraNet Storage Director --Crossroads Systems, Inc. - Crossroads Storage Routers See data mover. : Crossroads 4200 and Crossroads 4100 --Gadzoox Networks - Denali Switch, Gibraltar Managed Hub A network hub that has intelligence built into firmware. Typically an Ethernet hub, it responds to management queries for statistics and to commands for setting the configuration. Managed Ethernet hubs evolved into managed Ethernet switches. Contrast with unmanaged hub. See intelligent hub. , Capellix Switch, Ventana SAN Manager --HighGround Systems Inc. - HighGround Storage Resource Manager --IBM - 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) Servers (Netfinity, RS/6000, AS/400, S/390) and IBM Storage Solutions --LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. - SYMplicity Storage Manager 7.0 --McDATA - McDATA Fibre Channel fabric A Fibre Channel fabric (or Fibre Channel switched fabric, FC-SW) is a switched fabric of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. solution --QLogic - QLogic Fibre Channel host bus adapters See host adapter. --Pathlight Technology Inc. - Pathlight SAN Gateway, Pathlight SAN Router --Vixel - Vixel SAN InSite management software and Vixel managed hubs and switches Tivoli SAN Management Solutions Tivoli's SAN management solution is composed of Tivoli Enterprise, the industry's leading IT management software, and Tivoli Storage Management, the leading storage and information management solution. The combination of these leading management solutions allows companies, for the first time, to centrally manage their distributed SAN infrastructure and to ensure availability of important applications and information across the enterprise. Tivoli's SAN management solution provides customers with a single, "end-to-end" application view of their data and hardware infrastructure across LANs, WANs, and SANs, from the desktop to S/390. About Tivoli Systems Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable and cross-platform IT management solutions that span networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software and Tivoli Ready 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 http://www.tivoli.com. Tivoli, Tivoli Enterprise, Tivoli Storage Manager, Team Tivoli and Tivoli Ready 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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