IBM has unveiled a strategy and
software to help businesses deliver green IT covering itsTivoli
,LotusandWebSphereproduct families.
Al Zollar, general manager, Tivoli Software, IBM, said "While
most people think of energy conservation from a hardware
perspective, increasingly it is actually software that is providing
more options to go green across the entire organisation."
The company's "Software for a Greener World" initiative includes
software designed to help businesses address the growing need to
maximise energy efficiency and reduce costs associated with power
and cooling. IBM has developed several add-ons to its Tivoli system
management tools family, to support green IT. These include Tivoli
Monitoring, IBM Maximo Facility Management and IBM Compliance
Warehouse for Legal Control.
Tivoli Monitoring software is designed to provide energy
management information that enables the optimisation of data centre
and facility assets, IBM said.
Other products covered by the initiative include WebSphere
Virtual Enterprise, which provides application infrastructure
virtualisation for lowering operational and energy costs Lotus
Notes and Domino 8.5 for collaboration to reduce in travel and
commuting and Rational Team Concert, which supports multi-site
software development and collaboration, reducing CO2 emissions.