For an organisation to be competitive in today’s business environment they need to respond to changing markets and opportunities. But new products and services bring about their own complexities in the form of new applications, IT infrastructure and support. In extreme cases the cost of implementing these new mechanisms can overrule the adoption of a new service, with infrastructure actually dictating business direction.
Tivoli Provisioning Manager Enables on demand computing across the entire datacenter through software, server, storage, and network automation. Using out of the box best practice automation packages Tivoli Provisioning Manager can deliver immediate return on investment. This is increased substantially when automation packages are customised to match a company datacenter’s best practices and procedures for consistent, error-free execution. Tivoli Provisioning Manager also provides pre-built automation packages for control and configuration of major vendors’ products.
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager features include a graphical user interface designed to simplify change execution tasks for the datacenter operator, hardware, software, and network resource discovery and drift detection to help ensure that desired configurations are maintained, integration with Tivoli Configuration Manager for enterprise-wide software distribution, and image and script management to help leverage existing company standards and procedures in a consistent and controlled way.
Tivoli Provisioning Manager also incorporates Solution Install, a Self-Managing Autonomic Technology enabling the deployment of complex applications to multiple real and virtual servers.