IBM Tivoli
Intelligent Orchestrator
IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator help you leverage your existing IT assets to become more agile and responsive to the business.
Being able to respond to changing market needs is a prerequisite to being competitive. However, the delivery of new products and services often drives up IT costs in the form of new applications, IT infrastructure and support staff. Companies have been forced to be more selective in their business pursuits, often forgoing projects that would have required changes to IT infrastructure.
Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator helps you improve return of IT assets and increase server utilization. It helps boost server-to-administrator ratios by automatically triggering the provisioning, configuration and deployment of a solution into production. This automated process supports servers, operating systems, storage, middleware, applications and network devices. By utilizing existing hardware, software and network devices without rewiring, you can minimize implementation times and achieve a faster return on investment. And new enhancements, such as resource reservation and scheduling support, orchestration of grid in addition to distributed application environments, improved integration with many key Tivoli products, task oriented graphical user interface, enhanced reporting, storage provisioning and an expanded library of automation packages, enable this product to help improve your data center operations better than ever.
Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator is a powerful solution that can also help improve service levels by constantly monitoring resources and requirements for anticipated peak workloads and then triggering the appropriate response based on your business priorities.
Features:
- Gather information about the performance of your application clusters and build a workload model that can predict impending resource requirements
- Manage resources across your application clusters to optimize business-aligned service delivery
- Automate the deployment of computing resources for each application environment (grid, distributed or both)
- Provide applications with priority access to data center resources based on class of service
- Allow specific resources to be reserved and scheduled for provisioning and deployment
Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator extends the benefits of the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager. It intelligently and dynamically issues instructions to Tivoli Provisioning Manager, which then uses automation packages to maintain server availability and meet required service levels in accordance with business priorities. It provides the why, where and when of a complete orchestration solution.
Business Benefit:
- Protect your existing investments, lower implementation costs and deliver a rapid return on investment by improving the utilization of existing hardware, software, storage and network devices without rewiring or changing the network architecture.
- Automate repetitive, manual tasks performed by system, network and storage administrators, thereby saving time and money. It boosts administrator productivity by automatically triggering the execution of the steps necessary to provision, configure and deploy a complete solution into productive use.
- Increase IT resource utilization tied directly to business results. Orchestration allows companies to manipulate their IT environment in real time - according to defined business policies - to achieve desired business goals. Orchestration does this by sensing the increase or decrease in IT resource demand and automatically taking action to re-allocate resources accordingly throughout the entire system, allowing multiple applications to be efficiently run according to business priorities on a common, dynamic, intelligently managed IT infrastructure.
- Anticipate, plan and dynamically provide server capacity to meet peak business needs on demand.
- Provide access to the IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) where you can access the tools and community you need to help build your business around on demand automation.