Cloud and IT Optimization

Enhance IT agility. Reduce cost and risk. Drive innovation. Cloud Service Delivery and Management Whitepaper

Adapt and thrive

More than ever, users want access to IT services when and where they need them. The cloud promises a way to efficiently meet this need. But it often comes with hidden costs and risks. That’s because managing the cloud can be more difficult as virtualization of resources can obscure visibility and hinder control. This can translate to higher administration costs and unknown vulnerabilities.

IBM® Tivoli® software can help you navigate this shift, adapt to the changes it brings and successfully satisfy your users while balancing these costs and risks. Tivoli software provides you the tools to ensure you maintain visibility, control and automation across your cloud including:

IBM SmartCloud Foundation is a set of technologies for building and managing virtualized infrastructures and private and hybrid clouds. Together these technologies can help build a fully functional cloud management system that aids business transformation and new service delivery. Individually, these technologies can help nearly any cloud project make quick and incremental progress towards a longer term cloud strategy.

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IBM SmartCloud Provisioning

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, a true IaaS solution, reduces costs and offers near-zero downtime and automated recovery.

IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management

IBM SmartCloud Monitoring helps monitor & optimize virtual infrastructure + virtual servers within, ensuring high availability & policy-driven placement of critical workloads.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments

Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments protects virtual machines by offloading backup workloads to a centralized server and enabling near-instant recovery.

IBM SmartCloud Workload Automation

Workload Deployer speeds application deployment to cloud and virtualization environments.

IBM SmartCloud Control Desk

A comprehensive IT Asset and Service Management solution that helps reduce cost and minimize service disruptions through automated service request handling, efficient change management, optimized asset lifecycle management across IT and enterprise domains.

IBM Security Identity and Access Assurance

IBM Security Identity and Access Assurance software administers, protects and monitors user access to resources and provides compliance auditing.

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IBM SmartCloud communities help you stay connected with your colleagues.

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IBM SmartCloud Foundation offers some of the most advanced technologies and architectures, designed and built by leading cloud experts. By connecting with like-minded leaders in cloud management, you can enhance your professional development, identify ways to improve efficiencies in your organization and position yourself to be a thought leader in cloud computing. Get connected with your Colleagues and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks to stay up on the latest IBM news and information that's important to you.

With its large customer base, the Process Automation community is vibrant with seasoned experts, newbies, challenging projects and sheer curiosity. Discover the offer ranging from conferences, to forums and blogs.

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IBM SmartCloud Foundation technologies enable organizations to easily build and rapidly scale private and hybrid clouds with unparalleled time to market, integration and management. Listen to Scott Hebner, IBM Vice President of Marketing, Cloud & Business Infrastructure Management describe why organizations are moving to the cloud and how IBM SmartCloud Foundation technology powers cloud adoption.

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