IBM Helps Companies Monitor Data Center ‘Health’ with New Cloud Service

On December 8th IBM announced the availability of online software – as a monthly subscription service – to help monitor, predict and prevent I.T. outages.

Today even the smallest I.T. departments are demanding capabilities to identify where bottlenecks might occur, prevent them from occurring and automate data center processes. I.T. staff need a central point of control to oversee the piecemeal parts of the data center while faced with shrinking capital budgets.

To help meet that demand, IBM is introducing Tivoli Live Monitoring Services delivered on the IBM cloud to help companies manage the health and performance of their I.T. resources, including operating systems, virtualized servers, middleware and software applications.

Aimed at organizations looking to take advantage of easy-to-use monitoring, Tivoli Live Monitoring Services offers enterprise-class monitoring capabilities as a “service” without the need to deploy hardware, purchase separate software licenses, or engage in extensive software configuration.

The service helps to quickly identify and address potential outages and bottlenecks that threaten application availability before impacting end-users’ notice. When the service detects a potential problem – such as running out of resource capacity – it automatically alerts IT operations and displays the relevant information in a dashboard to help analyze and correct the issue. Using IBM’s autonomic computing capabilities, the service can be programmed to automate certain tasks that enable the affected system to ‘self-heal’ when faced with certain issues.

For more information:

Press Release-click here

on Tivoli Live, see this fact sheet – click here

IBM announced new Linux offerings for the System z mainframe to help clients run smarter and more efficient data centers

December 9th IBM announced new Linux offerings for the System z mainframe to help clients run smarter and more efficient data centers that maximize the use of IT resources and reduce energy costs.

To date, IBM has announced its initial set of eight System z Solution Editions for data warehousing, application development, disaster recovery, security, electronic payments, SAP applications, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and cloud computing.

At the same time, corporate investments in virtualization — creation of multiple virtual servers or storage on a single physical system — have helped cut IT costs. Yet popular virtualization providers do not provide the necessary levels of scalability, security and management in large-scale configurations, where the savings can be substantial. Consolidating on IBM System z can improve application availability and security while significantly lowering IT costs and risks.

“With 1,300 Linux customers, IBM is responding to strong customer appetite for running Linux on System z with a fully dedicated, standalone Linux server.  Only the Enterprise Linux Server can provide the environment necessary to handle countless workloads securely and with high availability on such a massive scale,” said Tom Rosamilia, general manager of System z at IBM. “IBM is also showing the long term economic value of the mainframe.  Our ‘save as you grow’ pricing model shows that as the business requirements get bigger, the cost of computing actually gets less expensive.”

For more information:

Press Release – click here

about System z – click here

System x and Virtualisation Study Tour

Date: Thursday 26th November
Venue: Innovation Centre, Building 6, IBM Technology Campus, Dublin 15

This Year’s Study Tour is specifically designed to offer a unique insight into the latest Industry Trends and Virtualisation Technologies with Live Demos of various solutions including, Open Source Virtualisation, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, IBM’s Systems Management, IBM’s Storage Virtualisation, IBM’s Virtual Client Solutions and IBM’s BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager, all hosted on the latest IBM System x™, BladeCenter and IBM Storage products.

For agenda and to register ->

IBM Storage Event- Doing more with less

IBM Storage – Doing More for Less
Date: Oct 21st 2009
Venue: Conrad Hotel, Dublin 2.

The half day event will provide you with the details and relevant information that will help you to develop plans to to reduce your storage costs and use saved budget for other business critical elements of your infrastructure. This is the perfect opportunity for you to find out how you can continue to exploit the latest industry-leading technologies.

For agenda and registration click here:

http://www-05.ibm.com/ie/events/storage/index.html

Wanna Cloud?

IBM announced it’s Cloudburst technology recently which includes information on our Public and Private Cloud offerings. These are ideal solutions for test and development, ancillary systems or whole production environments allowing you to expand when you and your business need to.

If you would like more information about Cloud offerings and how they can help your business contact Bryan Hickson (hicksonb@ie.ibm.com) for more information.

We can also arrange a proof of concept you in our Innovation Centre.

http://www-05.ibm.com/ie/emerging_business_centre/cloud.html

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cloud/

Do more with less!

Global economic uncertainty has reverberated across all industries. Everyone is affected by this crisis — some businesses will diminish and others will gain strength and enhance their competitiveness. Which will you be? IBM can help.

Like most business leaders you have been challenged by the cost cutting — when you think you have done everything possible, how can you continue your services with reduced operations spending? Technology continues to get smarter, faster and cheaper. We can help you leverage these dramatic improvements in technology to address business needs and drive greater IT capabilities.

IBM can help you do more with less:

* Cut costs by reassessing your IT operations
* Get more out of your existing infrastructure
* Improve the productivity of your staff

Our services are designed to help you realize immediate savings and near-term ROI even during economic uncertainty. We’ll look at deferring capital expenditures and easing staffing pressures. By optimizing your operations in a down market, we can help prepare your organization to seize opportunities. Explore the tabs above to see what a partnership with IBM can do.

Learn more here : http://tinyurl.com/nntqhf

Storage – what can you do?

Customers can run into serious scale-up challenges with their storage infrastructure. For instance in one customers case utilization was poor, application and data provisioning took too long and their Data was no longer optimized or flexible, leading to infrastructure costs that could not be controlled or rationalized.

The infrastructure support staff were spending too much time managing the environment instead of responding to core business needs. The CFO felt they were spending too much money on storage with too frequent purchase requirements.

IBM was able to radically change the customers Storage environment for the better seeing huge data reduction through enterprise archiving and Deduplication, SAN-based storage consolidation using IBM XIV, a significant improvement to data protection through multi-site data replication. Overall the customer saw a major improvement in utilization, performance and flexibility of their network-attached storage requirements.

If you want to hear more or to discuss your requirements
contact Bryan Hickson
hicksonb@ie.ibm.com

Are we secure?

Want to know how to select the best VPN equipment, identify vulnerabilities, and secure any connections? IBM Security Services can do all this an more. With our specialists team we can ensure your data and customers are safe and that costs and exposures are minimised. IBM offerings are one of the industry’s most trusted and respected in the industry. Get in touch to find out what we can do for your company.

Thinking about a datacenter

Talk to IBM Services about you DC requirements, whether you’d like to discuss best practices for your enviroment or want to hear more about how IBM has the only DC in Ireland that has two feeds from the National Grid ensuring 24×7 cover for your requirements.

Also hear about our new range of DC/Server Room tools for measuring and managing your Power efficency & cooling.

New Range of System x X5 Servers on the way…

With the continuing popularity of x86 virtualisation the need for even more powerful systems has never been more apperant. IBM is currently working on the next generation of these high perfomance systems. Following in the success & heritage of the X Architecture comes the latest generation, X5. These systems will feature the Intel Nehalem X (octo core) processors & increased memory capabilities meaning IBM will contiue to increase it’s ability to host more VM’s than any other manufacturer which ensures value for our customers