So, is this a good thing?

IBM ANNOUNCES ADSM-TO-TIVOLI TRANSFER
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IBM's Storage System Division's (SSD's) ADSTAR Distributed Storage 
Manager (ADSM) product has moved over to IBM's Tivoli Systems,
Inc., IBM announced today. Bringing ADSM under Tivoli's roof 
could be a match made in heaven. Both Big Blue offerings (ADSM and 
Tivoli) are recognized as market leaders: Gartner Group recently 
named ADSM "the top contender" in the storage management market -- 
which is predicted to grow to a $2.1 billion industry by 2001; and 
Tivoli is a market leader for enterprise management solutions such 
as network performance monitoring and administrative housekeeping. 
But the most critical component of IBM's ADSM-to-Tivoli transfer 
may be that both products are cross-platform solutions. The new 
arrangement could give customers the luxury one-stop shopping for 
both management and storage management solutions for their 
heterogeneous enterprises.

"It's a natural evolution," says Frank Elliott, vice president of 
marketing and strategy for SSD. 

Martin Neath, executive vice president, Tivoli, agrees. "There are 
tremendous opportunities for IBM to leverage both the technology 
and the expertise within the storage division as well as Tivoli's 
focus on enterprise management to deliver even more compelling 
storage solutions for customers. We have a lot of opportunity 
ahead."

The AS/400 only recently became an ADSM client, but ADSM's 
transfer to Tivoli "will in no way affect the recently announced 
client support for the AS/400," stresses Elliott. In fact, the 
AS/400 is also one of the platforms for which Tivoli provides 
management solutions today, and, notes Neath, the synergy provided 
by the ADSM and Tivoli's new relationship will give them the 
opportunity to expand that coverage.
-- Jeanne Huff, NEWS/400 Industry Reporter
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