IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data provides over 400 enterprise-wide reports, monitoring and alerts, policy-based action and file-system capacity automation in a heterogeneous environment. Productivity Center for Data is designed to help improve capacity utilization of file systems and databases and add intelligence to data protection and retention practices.

With Productivity Center for Data, you can address the challenges of an on demand environment with customizable storage-management policies. It is designed to provide a single interface to manage storage assets. It provides a suite of tools to help enterprises to identify, evaluate, control and predict storage usage, and to enable management of key aspects of the storage infrastructure: capacity, assets, events and availability. Productivity Center for Data offers active, policy-based management for an automated, self-healing approach to storage resource management.

Productivity Center for Data also includes asset management and business unit chargeback capabilities, enabling you to align your storage infrastructure with business objectives and manage storage as an internal, application-driven utility. The chargeback capabilities are particularly beneficial in cloud storage environments: advanced multicustomer support features enable organizations to charge in different currencies and to charge different rates for the same service, as well as providing cloud consumers with price breakdowns for resources used and resources reserved for future use.

Today, more customers are looking for ways to organize their corporate information, manage it efficiently and establish service levels for different classes of storage. Productivity Center for Data is designed to provide autonomic computing capacity management through its file-system-extension capability. Through monitoring, Productivity Center for Data detects when a user-defined threshold has been reached, and extend the file system, to help prevent a potential outage.

Productivity Center for Data is designed to enable you to define and enforce storage policies. It provides event management, which you can use to help fix or avoid storage outages. And you can choose to be notified before any corrective action is executed.

Key features include:

• Designed to offer comprehensive enterprise reporting, monitoring and alerts to help improve storage utilization and availability, and help you manage more with the same resources
• Designed to provide capacity management and automated storage provisioning leveraging automation
• Provides intelligent management options, subsystem reporting and network-attached storage (NAS) support
• Designed to enable storage administrators to monitor, report on and manage growing NAS resources with a universal view of direct-attached storage and NAS—from a file system or application perspective.
• Chargeback for storage capacity usage based on multiple metrics to help customers move to an On Demand storage environment.
• Direct Tivoli Storage Manager integration allows administrators to initiate a Tivoli Storage Manager archive or backup via a constraint or directly from a file report simplifying policy based actions.