IBM has unveiled what it claims is the industry's first systems management portfolio, allowing companies to discover, monitor and manage diverse virtual and physical computing resources from a common portal, including IBM and non-IBM systems and software.

The IBM Systems Director family allows clients to better manage all of their virtual and physical resources in the data center, working with Tivoli offerings to provide complete cross-enterprise service management. Part of IBM's Systems Director family, the new IBM Virtualization Manager software offering, significantly reduces the number of management tools needed to support multiple types of servers.

The Virtualization Manager dashboard operates in a web-based user interface and allows businesses to manage technology resources like they would a financial portfolio, moving computing workloads to key areas of the data center that will drive productivity, identify problems in the infrastructure, grow existing workloads, and add or delete computing resources. As the first technology in the industry to work across multiple major virtualization platforms, the IBM Virtualization Manager includes initial support for VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Xen and POWER-based virtualization offerings. Clients can also leverage the capabilities of VMware's VirtualCenter by integrating it into IBM Director to provide a single point of management.

http://www.ibm.com/virtualization

•Date: 3rd Nov 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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