IBM is rolling out its first set of software tools and services aimed at standardizing and streamlining the way enterprises design and integrate IT processes.
IBM Tivoli Monday announced products and upgrades to help IT managers better integrate business processes and IT operations, and to enable IT service management across enterprise networks. Big Blue says the new software and services will help IT managers automatically integrate disparate systems and data stores to establish standard best practices across IT workflows as well as business processes.
IBM may have chosen Disney World as the setting to announce a spate of new intelligent networking features for its systems management products, but analysts and users believe there's nothing Mickey Mouse about their capabilities.
A clutch of companies are vying to provide new types of tools that better monitor and manage application performance across a distributed infrastructure.