IBMis furthering the efforts of firms
toautomate their datacentreswith an
upgraded version of its Tivoli Provisioning Manager
(TPM).
The upgrade is a further step by
IBM to help firms build large-scale, distributed, globally
accessible datacentres, as part of its Blue Cloud strategy.
TPM plays an important role in helping IT organisations manage
power consumption by switching servers to standby mode when not in
use, which saves energy, and automatically restores them to active
mode when needed.
TPM dynamically provisions and allocates resources to compensate
for workload fluctuations, said IBM. These fluctuations can strain
specific IT resources while other systems run at less than
capacity, a problem cloud computing techniques can help
resolve.
Chris O'Connor, vice-president of IBM Tivoli strategy and market
management, said, "This new version of Tivoli Provisioning Manager
enables our clients to simplify IT environments, further take
advantage of virtualisation and realise the vision of cloud
computing."
TPM 5.1.1 includes a variety of enhancements to expand the
capabilities and benefits of automating common datacentre tasks,
while providing interoperability to support diverse IT environments
and varying levels of IT maturity.
IBM said the new capabilities help simplify software
installation and improve distribution, monitor IT resources across
an enterprise, and create reusable automation packages to perform
complex tasks that can be used again later.