IBM Pulse 2008 Conference
At its Pulse 2008 conference, IBM announced new software and services to help businesses thrive in the new era of industrialized IT operations.
In his keynote address to more than 4,000 IBM clients, business partners and employees, IBM Tivoli Software General Manager Al Zollar detailed how, much like the assembly line and automation transformed the automobile and telecommunications industries over the past century, IT operations are ripe for industrialization.
“While IT organizations have automated some functions, the industrialization of IT operations is still in its early stages,” said Al Zollar, general manager, IBM Tivoli Software. “IBM is in a unique position to provide the software, hardware and services to help clients move beyond siloed management to industrialized operations.”
Perhaps the most interesting part of the event was that IBM is finally attempting to package its very complete, though discrete, Tivoli management offerings into more understandable and less acronym-centric solution sets, leveraging robust integration, improved price points, deployment models, best practices, and global services capabilities, all that target more holistic IT automation. Acknowledging that such automation, or industrialization, remains as the key enabler for enterprise deployments of SOA, Web 2.0, dynamic component based infrastructures and applications, and cloud computing initiatives, reaffirms the company’s direction to tighten IT’s link with its business constituents. The stated target is to better automate and respond to dynamic business needs with expanded automation and management capabilities.
IBM introduces an action plan and new software to help businesses reap the benefits of technology that delivers increased efficiency while being friendly to the environment. IBM “Software for a Greener World” includes new products that track energy consumption in the data center and enable IT managers to adjust power usage to reduce costs and control carbon emissions. The new offerings are Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Maximo Facility Management and IBM Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control. IBM Active Energy Manager, introduced last year, has also been enhanced.
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