Tivoli Partner Association Certifies 14 New Partner Products.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1998-- Mission-Critical Technology from 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) , Tavve Software, LOAN System and BB-DATA Sytemhaus GmbH GmbH Gesellschaft mit Beschränkter Haftung (German: limited liability company; business entity) Achieve "Tivoli-Ready" Status Tivoli Systems Inc., the world's leader in network, systems and applications management, today announced that 14 new products from a broad range of vendors have achieved certification under guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. established by the Tivoli Partner Association. All certified See certification. products can be quickly and seamlessly integrated into a Tivoli environment, resulting in a well-managed enterprise and a faster return on IT investment. Five of these products will carry the "Tivoli-Ready" logo signaling they can be managed out-of-the-box by Tivoli Enterprise software or Tivoli NetView. To date, over 80 partner products have met the rigorous requirements of Tivoli certification with more than 90 others in development. "Tivoli is working with the industry's leading technology companies to integrate their applications with Tivoli Management Software so that customers are free to select the applications and solutions that best meet their unique IT needs," said Mark McClain, vice president of Marketing for Tivoli. "This initiative is part of Tivoli's ongoing commitment to reduce the time it takes to deploy systems management software and to allow customers to choose best-of-breed solutions." New Tivoli Partner Product Integrations The following product integrations have achieved "Tivoli-Ready" status. They address the areas of security, performance management and asset management and include: Integration with Tivoli Enterprise -- BB-DATA Systemhaus GmbH's ASDIS ASDIS Automated Sample Data Instrumentation System -- IBM's Global Sign-On -- IBM Network Software Products' eNetwork Mobile Equalizer -- LOAN System's Sysload Integration with Tivoli NetView -- Tavve Software's Network Management A number of products have obtained Foundation level certification by offering event-level integration with Tivoli Management Software. These product applications also exploit the features and benefits of the Tivoli Enterprise Console or Tivoli NetView. The newly certified products address the areas of middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a management, event management, event automation, performance management, fault management and network management: Integration with Tivoli Enterprise -- CCSS CCSS Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security Institution) CCSS Center for Civil Society Studies CCSS Commodity Command Standard System CCSS Common Channel Signaling System Ltd.'s QMessage Monitor -- Computerm's SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. Support -- Heroix's RoboCentral -- Heroix's RoboMon -- IBM Networking Hardware's Nways Manager Suite -- NK - EXA Corp's Dual Manager Integration with Tivoli NetView -- Lexmark International's Markvision -- Lucent Technologies' DEFINITY G3 -- Racal Data Group's Access Multiplexer See multiplexor and multiplexing. multiplexer - multiplexor Control Tivoli Partner Association Tivoli launched its Partner Association to offer customers tightly integrated, seamless solutions. Partner products must pass strict certification guidelines and testing to be certified. This ensures they provide out-of-the-box value and solve relevant customer problems. Once certified, Premiere and Pinnacle pinnacle (pĭn`ĭkəl), minor architectural motif of vertical tapering shape, usually crowning a pier, buttress, or gable. Although sometimes it appears in Renaissance design, as in the Certosa di Pavia, it is almost exclusively a medieval level products are branded as "Tivoli-Ready." Participation in the Tivoli Partner association reflects the level of product integration with Tivoli Management Software. Foundation Members' products have event-level integration with Tivoli Management Software and their product applications exploit the features and benefits of the Tivoli Enterprise Console or Tivoli NetView. Premiere Certified Products include applications using Tivoli services and application-level integrated solutions. Pinnacle Certified products are highly integrated, based upon the Tivoli Management Framework and utilize the characteristics of Tivoli applications. Toolkits are offered to assist partners interested in integrating their applications with Tivoli Management Software. For more information about the Tivoli Partner Association, access the Tivoli partner Web site at http://www.tivoli.com/o_partners/html/body_partners.html or send e-mail to partners@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 e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. . Leading companies around the world use Tivoli Management 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 domestic and international sales offices, systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. , resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit Tivoli's World Wide Web site at http://www.tivoli.com. Tivoli Management Software, Tivoli Enterprise and Tivoli NetView are 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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