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With storage growth far outpacing staffing rates, organizations seek to leverage existing storage resources and the knowledge of their staff. And as customers deploy virtualization and grid technologies to help maximize their IT investments, they also need workload scheduling solutions that enable them to centrally manage and automate application workloads across heterogeneous environments.
To help optimize storage environments and workload distribution, Tivoli delivers integrated and modular solutions that simplify and automate management. Now, Tivoli optimization solutions are available with workflows, which document and automate best practices to help avoid costly human errors and minimize the time and expense of managing complex environments.

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 |  | Advanced Storage Provisioning Automate cross discipline storage provisioning tasks using workflows. Build custom automation packages to support data center best practices. |  | Application Protection Secures business critical application data for a wide variety of databases, mail programs, ERP solutions, and application servers, ensuring reliability and data integrity |  | Backup and Recovery Protects data by storing backup copies on offline and offsite storage, and employs multiple smart-data techniques to make data backups and restores as fast, flexible, and as low-impact as possible |  | Disaster Preparation Creates a disaster recovery plan containing detailed recovery steps and computer scripts to recover your company's most critical asset—data and facilitates the tracking of off-site volumes |  | IBM TotalStorage Virtualization Looking to reduce the complexity and costs of managing your SAN-based storage? IBM TotalStorage Virtualization is designed to help you address these challenges head on. |  | Managed Archive Keeps copies of active or inactive data for a specified amount of time on offline storage. Ideal for long-term storage for regulatory or bookkeeping requirements |
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Page last updated on July 13, 2006. |