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Tivoli Gains New Storage Market Through Agreement with Compaq; Comprehensive Data Protection Offering From Compaq Supported With Tivoli Storage Manager

Business Wire, Jan 31, 2001

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001

Tivoli(R) Systems Inc. today announced an agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) to deliver storage management solutions for Enterprise customers. Tivoli storage solutions liberate business critical networks from intensive backup and recovery tasks, freeing IT resources for business growth activities.

Tivoli Storage Manager will provide backup, recovery and management of data for the Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution(tm), to leverage the connectivity and performance benefits of a storage area network (SAN), delivering customers more robust storage management solutions. This news is a further step to solidifying the storage alliance that was announced on July 6, 2000, between Tivoli parent IBM and Compaq. Together the companies are promoting interoperability in the storage industry.

The Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution is a Fibre Channel data protection solution that leverages customer's existing investments in servers and tape libraries while introducing an Open SAN infrastructure to enable consolidated, shared storage, increased performance and lower management costs.

"Storage is one of the highest-growth markets for 2001, and Compaq is wise to turn to Tivoli for the storage management software needs of its customers as it pushes into the high-end," said Michael Karp, director of Storage Strategies for Hurwitz Group, Framingham, MA. "As data integrity becomes more vital, enterprises must manage their storage area networks at least as efficiently as they now manage their LANs."

"The Tivoli open-systems storage vision is built on providing best-of-breed, pre-tested and configured storage management solutions that our customers can deploy with confidence," said Jose Iglesias, vice president, storage management, Tivoli enterprise solutions group. "Compaq storage customers will benefit from the functionality and reliability that Tivoli Storage Manager brings to their installation."

"Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution customers will receive the performance and connectivity benefits of storage area networks in their existing heterogeneous environments with Tivoli Storage Manager," said Rusty Smith, director, Nearline Storage, Compaq. "Customers can tap into open, standards-based storage solutions that work with a multitude of vendor's products."

Tivoli Storage Manager v. 4.1.1 features include automated network backup, tape resource sharing, network-free rapid data recovery, LAN-free and multi-threaded data transfer and adaptive differencing technology. The patented adaptive differencing technology is of particular benefit to today's mobile users, who feel the frustration of bandwidth bottlenecks when trying to perform critical backup and recovery of their remote computing devices.

Availability

The Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution and Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1.1 will be available early Q1, 2001. Pricing is based on server and client configurations. For more information on Tivoli Storage Manager, call 1-800-2Tivoli (1-800-284-8654), or visit www.tivoli.com/storage. For more information on Compaq StorageWorks, visit www.compaq.com.

About Tivoli Systems

Tivoli software manages the foundations of e-business, extending the boundaries of traditional network and systems management from the data center across the Internet, from the desktop to pervasive devices. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software, Tivoli Ready third-party products and Team Tivoli partner services to reduce the cost and complexity of managing heterogeneous IT environments. Tivoli solutions, encompassing management of security, storage and mobile devices, are helping these organizations to create a technology infrastructure to support the next generation of business. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM company (NYSE:IBM). Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com.

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