IBM Gets Into Cloud-based Data Center Monitoring Act
Tivoli Live Monitoring Services – that’s the name of IBM’s new cloud-based monitoring suite for data centers that it has built for IT administrators. IBM’s aim is to give IT folks a central point of control to monitor network activity and help prevent outages, which is not healthy for data centers – as we know.
IBM’s new product gives businesses a snapshot view of all their different operating systems, virtualized servers, middleware and software and software applications.
“With digital information as the lifeblood of more organizations, even the smallest companies or divisions consider the datacenter’s functionality mission-critical,” Al Zollar, general manager of IBM Tivoli, said in a statement from the company.
According to a press report that I read about the new product, the new monitoring service will help “quickly identify and address potential outages and bottlenecks that threaten application availability before impacting end-users.” Tivoli, available on IBM’s cloud, also alerts IT operations when the service detects a potential problem and it gives dashboard data to help administrators analyze and correct the issue.
Even though Big Blue is a late-comer in SaaS launchings, versus companies like Google (with its Apps and Docs), Tivoli represents the latest in a general ramping up of SaaS offerings by the company. Recently, IBM issued another cloud-based product (Blue Insight) that lets users analyze and distribute business intelligence and analytics applications.
Of course, there are already many great monitoring solutions out there that are providing businesses that move apps and databases to the cloud with an extra measure of comfort and reliability. Here at Monitis, we’re seeing incredible demand from website owners and businesses that need stable, 24/7 monitoring of everything from transactions to servers and networks, even printers – and from the cloud.
Who knows, perhaps Big Blue even took a look at us (and companies like us), and spying our growing success, decided that this was a game they needed to be part of?
