IBM Offers New Software For Managing Data Centres

IBM has introduced new software for managing data centres. The new technology has the potential to cut the cost of operations while speeding the deployment of new applications.

The introduction of IBM’s new VMControl product for enterprises, combined with IBM Tivoli software, gives businesses a single point of control across multiple types of IT systems and virtualisation technologies. It spans UNIX/ Linux, mainframe, x86 and storage systems and networks.

VMControl allows combinations of physical and virtual IBM servers to be managed as a single entity. This approach – known as system pooling – expands the benefits of virtualisation by helping corporate data centres simplify complex management functions and better share and prioritise use of critical resources such as processing power, memory and storage.

Centralising control of virtualised environments brings new intelligence to data centre operations. Companies can manage their vast pools of information and processing resources and parcel them out to applications when and where they’re needed. This capability not only increases the overall capacity utilisation of the IT infrastructure to lower capital, operational and energy costs, and improves application availability, but gives IT managers the flexibility to adapt to new demands being prompted by the surge of data from Internet-connected devices.

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VMControl will also accelerate the deployment of new IT delivery models, like cloud computing, which allows information and processing resources to be tapped from afar.

The new product, together with IBM Tivoli software, helps companies address and improve service and reduce cost and risk. IBM has also announced a new version of Tivoli Provisioning Manager that provides enhanced automation of the manual tasks of provisioning and configuring servers, operating systems, middleware, software applications, storage and network devices.

The new product – IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition – supports IBM’s PowerVM and z/VM as well as x86 virtualisation technologies such as VMWare, Hyper-V and open x86 virtualisation solutions. VMControl Enterprise Edition will be available on IBM Power Systems running AIX in December 2009. Additional support for other platforms is planned for next year as part of a dynamic infrastructure.