Tivoli Enhances Support For Lotus Domino; Three New Product Versions Supporting Lotus Domino Ensure Round-the-Clock Availability of Critical Business Systems; Cut IT Costs - Tivoli Systems Tivoli Manager for Domino 2.0, Tivoli Manager for Domino - IT Director Edition 2.1, - Product Announcement

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Nov 1, 1999

At Lotusphere Europe 99, Tivoli Systems Inc., the world's leading supplier of IT management solutions, Tuesday announced new Enterprise and IT Director editions of Tivoli Manager for Domino and the introduction of Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Domino. These new products along with Tivoli partner initiatives extend Tivoli's management support for companies of any size relying on Lotus Domino as their central messaging and collaboration system.

"Today, Domino is being deployed as part of mission critical e-business and ERP implementations that require a comprehensive management solution," said David Williams, vice president of product management, Tivoli Systems. "The products we are announcing today represent Tivoli's commitment to address all aspects of Domino management by delivering the broadest suite of solutions in the market."

Tivoli Manager for Domino, v2.0

Focused on meeting the growing needs of Lotus Notes and Domino enterprise customers, Tivoli Manager for Domino, v2.0 is an enterprise product providing significant new functionality for the management of Notes client and Domino server environments. The new release of Tivoli Manager for Domino delivers unsurpassed scalability in global deployments of Notes and Domino allowing thousands of Domino components to be managed from a single point with minimal staff.

New capabilities for Tivoli Manager for Domino, v2.0 include:

--Domino-partitioned server support and cluster monitoring allowing customers to manage sophisticated enterprise deployments utilizing high end AIX hardware configurations

--One Touch Management -- Tivoli Management Agent endpoint support making it easy to deploy and manage large and growing Domino environments

--Tivoli Decision Support Guide for Domino which consolidates, transforms and presents Domino management data in an easy-to-use view that reveals hidden patterns and trends that impact customers' businesses

--Internationalization including enablement, localization and translation for 9 languages

DYS Analytics Products Integrated with Tivoli Enterprise Console Tivoli partners have also responded to the need of large corporations to centralize management of core business applications. DYS Analytics, for example, has integrated its CONTROL! product line with Tivoli Enterprise Console. Integration with Tivoli represents an innovative approach to network management, providing preemptive alerts to faulty information-flow states and allowing managers and administrators to analyze and proactively correct them before they disrupt the flow of information throughout the entire organization.

Tivoli Manager for Domino - IT Director Edition, v2.1

Tivoli continues to deliver on its Domino management solution that provides small to medium-sized businesses (SMB's) with easier and more comprehensive management of Domino from the centralized Tivoli IT Director management console. With the recent announcement of Tivoli IT Director v2.1, a centralized IT and application management solution designed for smaller businesses, the integration with Domino provides a more relevant management solution for the large number of SMBs using Domino as their key messaging and collaboration platform.

For customers who may prefer to continually upgrade their Domino applications, managing adds and changes to end-user status and require high availability of their Domino servers, Tivoli IT Director provides a unique solution to manage the entire environment. Because of Tivoli IT Director's real-time monitoring capabilities, IT managers can now monitor more attributes of the Domino application and server providing the ability to automate events for notification and corrective action. IT managers also are able to improve efficiency by monitoring resources such as Domino server availability and mail status, distributing Domino software and by performing user management and other tasks.

New capabilities of Tivoli Manager for Domino - IT Director Edition, v2.1 include:

--Over 500 new monitors of the Domino Release 5 (R5) application monitors from the Tivoli IT Director user interface

--Expanded event notification filtering providing more robust management based on monitoring Domino servers

--Improved user profile management for new and existing Lotus Domino users

--Lotus Domino R5 support

--Internationalization including enablement, localization and translation for 9 languages

Tivoli Data Protection for Lotus Domino

Tivoli Storage Management Solutions are designed to deliver continuous application and transaction availability, addressing the needs of today's dynamic networked organizations. This makes Tivoli Data Protection for Database and GroupWare applications a critical component to any company dependent on information to support and drive their business. Specifically designed for Lotus products, Tivoli Data Protection for Domino is the only Lotus-certified on-line backup, recovery and activation solution for Domino R5 databases and transaction logs available today.