Tivoli Revolutionizes Storage Management with New Information Integrity Initiative.

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 1999--

First to Align Storage Management with Business Policies

Across the Enterprise Information Grid(TM)

Tivoli Systems Inc. today announced its new Information Integrity Initiative(TM) aimed at helping companies meet the storage management challenges of today's networked economy. This initiative allows organizations to link key business practices with storage management policies, enabling customers for the first time to use information to drive their business, rather than to simply support it.

Through its application-centric view, Tivoli Storage Management (formerly ADSTAR(TM) Distributed Storage Manager - ADSM) allows companies to centrally manage the ever-increasing amount of information as an integral part of the business. "Centralized management is a big plus, and Tivoli Storage Management offers this," said Tom Haddad, senior applications technical analyst, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation. "Tivoli Storage Management offers us the ability to handle tremendous application growth with minimal staff. Our payback has been tremendous."

Managing the Enterprise Information Grid

The vast amount of systems, storage devices and information located across everything from SANs to LANs to the Internet, and from PDAs to mainframes has created what Tivoli calls the Enterprise Information Grid. Due to the ever-growing size, complexities and costs, companies are looking for ways to enhance the value of their information, creating a need for a common view across the enterprise from a network, storage and application perspective. Now integrated with Tivoli Enterprise, Tivoli Storage Management allows companies to manage their systems, storage, communication networks, storage area networks, data and applications from any location with an integrated solution that assures availability.

"With the proliferation of storage across diverse network infrastructures and operating environments, today's increasingly information-driven companies need solutions like Tivoli Storage Management to ensure application availability," said Dr. Paul Mason, vice president of Infrastructure Software Research at IDC.

Tivoli Storage Management

Tivoli Storage Management is the industry's leading storage management solution for the networked economy, providing customers with integrated enterprise-wide backup, archiving, storage management and disaster recovery capabilities across more than 39 different platforms including OS/390, NT, Unix, NetWare, Linux and OS/400. Key areas of Tivoli's Information Integrity Initiative include:

--Alignment of storage management with business policies and best practices

--Centralized storage management across the Enterprise Information Grid

--Focus on business recovery when disaster strikes

--Management of storage area networks (SANs)

--End-to-End Storage management from the data center to the mobile workforce

Through integration with Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager, customers can view from a single console how data and storage relate to business systems, applications and network health. Utilizing the Tivoli Management Agent and an architecture that supports centralized management and global policy distribution, information on servers and workstations can be updated and managed through One Touch Management(TM), dramatically reducing cost and complexity. In addition, using patented block and byte-level differencing for the mobile environment, data movement is achieved with minimal network overhead. Finally, Adaptive Mapping(TM) technology allows customers to quickly recover data as much as five times faster than with other products, which is critical when downtime can mean the difference between revenue or lost customers.

"With a reliance on applications and a requirement for information integrity, companies must focus on business recovery and centralized storage management," said Jim Hilbert, vice president and general manager, Tivoli Storage Solutions. "The patented technologies in Tivoli Storage Management provide the fastest business recovery and the only cross-platform, end-to-end storage management solutions in the industry."

Storage Area Networks

Storage area networks are the latest technology for storage and information management architectures today. With SANs, customers see the possibility of having seamless resource and information sharing in distributed environments just as IBM's S/390 customers have enjoyed for years. By combining industry-leading network, systems and storage management capabilities, Tivoli is delivering the first comprehensive SAN management solution featuring multi-vendor tape pooling and LAN-free backup, with future enhancements to include disk and data sharing.

Availability

Tivoli Storage Management is available immediately with additional enhancements to be delivered in the next 90 days. For more information on Tivoli Storage Management, call 1-800-2Tivoli (1-800-284-8654), 512-436-8000 or visit the Tivoli World Wide Web site at www.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. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli 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 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 Global Enterprise Manager, Tivoli Storage Management 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.