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IBM ANNOUNCES ADSM-TO-TIVOLI TRANSFER
http://www.news400.com/redir/redirDB.cfm?ID=390
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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