IBM has plans for Tivoli

Rethink IT, Jan, 2005

IBM plans to expand its Tivoli division in 2005, moving beyond systems management to new enterprise areas such as identity management, to produce a broad platform more akin to HP's OpenView.

There will be more features such as 'common event infrastructure' which reside on top of databases and use the web as infrastructure. IBM will also look to increase its change and configuration management portfolio.

New directions in 2005 will include server, identity, application, and change management, as well as IT governance, or managing the allocation of IT resources. This is part of IBM's on-demand or autonomic computing initiatives, with Tivoli playing a key role in helping customers enable automated IT service management across their enterprise networks.

Tivoli will deliver the common architecture and common data models to link IT performance to business processes and, within three years, all Tivoli applications will be built on a service-oriented architecture and share an underlying data model to enable data sharing across enterprise systems.

It will share elements such as a Common Event Infrastructure with the WebSphere and DB2 software divisions. CEI is based on the IBM-developed Common Base Event specification, a standard format for event logs that devices and software can use to keep track of transactions and other activity.