IBM to Make Software Products and Middleware “Tivoli-Ready”
Customers Gain Quick Manageability; Extends Breadth of Agreements with IBM, Intel, 3Com and Microsoft
AUSTIN, Texas (August 12, 1998) – Two of the world’s leading software vendors — Tivoli Systems Inc. and its parent company, IBM — announced today an agreement to further extend the global reach of the Tivoli Management universe. They will extend IBM’s broad software product portfolio into the ”Tivoli-Ready” program, broadening the status of this growing initiative.
”Tivoli-Ready” hardware and software makes technology deployment easier by providing customers with out-of-the-box management capabilities. ”Tivoli-Ready” functionality is already available on a number of IBM hardware products including all new desktop PCs, ThinkPads and NetFinity servers, thus magnifying the gains for IBM customers. This functionality also will be available by year end for RS/6000, AS/400 and S/390.
Through this joint software initiative, all IBM software products will be integrated, certified, and gain the ”Tivoli-Ready” stamp of approval. From host-based middleware to e-business applications, customers the world over will have the unprecedented capability to manage and control end-to-end business applications and systems across the enterprise through a single management console. Examples of industry-leading IBM software products which will be ”Tivoli-Ready” include IBM’s MQSeries, CICS, DB2, Universal Data Base (UDB) and Lotus Domino.
”Customers around the world increasingly rely on Tivoli and IBM software to run mission-critical business operations,” said John M. Thompson, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. ”From e-Business to host-based applications, IT departments using ”Tivoli-Ready” products now have the ability to securely deploy, manage and ensure greater service level performance. ”Tivoli-Ready” products allow businesses to transform IT from survival mode into a competitive business advantage.”
Today’s announcement further enhances the growing list of companies who have signaled their support of the ”Tivoli-Ready” program. In addition to IBM software and hardware products, Tivoli announced earlier this year ”Tivoli-Ready” agreements with leading industry players including Intel, Microsoft and 3Com. For instance, all personal computers based on the Intel-led Wired for Management (WfM) Baseline specification, all Microsoft Windows NT 5.0 systems, and 3Com’s Network Interface Card Dynamic Access(TM) software suite come to customers ”Tivoli-Ready.” To date, 3Com has shipped more than one million ”Tivoli-Ready” NIC cards and will continue to ship approximately one million each month.
”Tivoli continues to deliver on its promise of easing the complexity of managing IT as a business,” said Tivoli Chairman and CEO Jan Lindelow. ”This is yet another industry-reaching agreement that reaps rich benefits for our customers in their fight to make IT a competitive weapon in today’s global business environments.”
Through this initiative, customers will be able to manage their IBM software under an integrated Tivoli management umbrella. IBM will ship Tivoli enabled software, allowing customers to automatically discover, inventory and manage IBM software with Tivoli Enterprise management products.
To support the ”Tivoli-Ready” initiative, IBM has established Tivoli Competency Centers to speed the development and branding certification process and to serve as a model for other companies wanting to certify their products as ”Tivoli-Ready.”
Source: IBM