IBM Unveils New Services and Products for New Dynamic Infrastructure

IBM (News - Alert) has announced several new services and products which the company said can help clients build a new, more dynamic infrastructure that will bring more intelligence, automation, integration and efficiencies to the digital and physical worlds.

 

Additionally, IBM has also introduced the new "Dynamic Infrastructure Specialty Program" that provides education, sales, marketing and technical guidance to advance Business Partners' skills in key business challenge areas such as virtualization, information management and energy efficiency. The company believes this as a new initiative to help Business Partners develop and deepen their competencies and skills to better respond to clients' business and IT transformational needs.

 

The newly announced services and products addresses some key requirements required for new dynamic infrastructure like: The integration of digital and physical infrastructure; the ability to manage, store, and analyze the 15 new petabytes of information the world is now generating per day; a reduction of massive inefficiencies and greater resilience in today's interconnected world.

 

The company’s new offerings include IBM Service Management Industry Solutions that is customized for seven industries: Utilities, chemicals & petroleum, telecommunications retail, banking, electronics and manufacturing.

 

The new IBM service management software and services are together from IBM Global Business Services, IBM Global Technology Services and specialized IBM Business Partner capabilities. As a team, they will help organizations to design and implement IT systems that centrally manage and monitor an entire industry infrastructure, enabling greater performance of both traditional assets such as manufacturing robotic equipment as well as emerging technologies.

 

Moreover, IBM’s new services to help clients design and implement service management strategies - IBM's Service Management Implementation Enhancements & Accelerators design services and deployment planning helps clients streamline the implementation of Tivoli software components so businesses can realize faster returns.

 

IBM has unveiled a new governance consulting practice, through which the company aims to work with clients to design governance systems to help mitigate risks related to business changes, changing market conditions and regulatory requirements.

 

A new Tivoli Service Automation Manager software is also launched which automates the design, deployment and management of services such as middleware, applications, hardware and networks, tasks that today are largely done manually and thus subject to error, time constraints and other human limitations.

 

Also, new Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager Software is launched which helps organizations to simplify the lifecycle of encryption keys by enabling them to centralize, automate and strengthen security through key management processes.

 

Apart from this, IBM has announced an integrated IBM TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance, including a server, storage, and "data deduplication" software that helps in minimizing redundant copies of the same data.

 

The company has also announced enhancements to the IBM XIV Storage System, including a new lower point of entry and interoperability enhancements. XIV's design provides fast access to information even as data grows across traditional applications, such as financial services or health care, or new workloads, such as digital media and Web 2.0, said the company.

 

The announcement also includes expansion of its Full-Disk Encryption on its IBM System Storage DS8000, which can help increase security and reduce costs and complexity through innovative self-encrypting drives.

 

The company’s Internet Security System's new data security services are designed with next-generation security technology to help clients secure their sensitive information from the enterprise to the edge of a network.

 

New InfoSphere Warehouse for System z beta software is aimed at helping clients make real-time decisions based on core business data for driving better customer management.

 

IBM’s announcement on new software also includes software that builds on its leadership in making infrastructure more resilient, virtualized, green and efficient, while helping clients reduce costs.

 

IBM announced new offerings which include; New IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management software, which brings automation to the management and reporting of energy consumption by non-IT assets.

 

New IBM Resiliency Consulting Services, which provide assessment, planning and business-impact analysis to identify the critical business processes that most impact a client's revenue and assets, and help them prioritize the recovery strategies that might be needed during business disruption.

 

Apart from these new software and services announcement, the company has unveiled IBM Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM.