With our 7.2.2 release we enhanced our extensibility model. What does this mean for you? private and public cloud service providers can extend their solution by adding extensions to their environment.  For example they may want support for specific network or storage use cases. You will see extensions appear over the next weeks and months on the ISM library . ISVs, SIs, customers and IBMers can contribute to the extension community by building and uploading their accelerators. How you build Tivoli Service Automation Manager extension is... [More]

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In case you have not come across this interesting application of Cloud Computing: the economy in Bari and its territory (the southern Italian region of Puglia) is based on small and medium-size businesses, primarily in agriculture and food products. To help sustain development, the University of Bari built a system that enables fishermen, wine growers and others to contract for services through a portal decreasing time-to-market, reducing transportation costs and the amount of products wasted. You will find a video with more details about this... [More]

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Registration is now open for Pulse 2012 which will be held March 4-7, 2012 and will feature hundreds of industry-focused sessions that demonstrate how IBM provides Visbility, Control and Automation across the business infrastructure to help you react with agility in today’s competitive landscapes, reduce risk, and receive the most value from your technology investment. One of the key topics is Cloud Computing as a profound evolution of IT with revolutionary implications for business and society, creating new possibilities and enabling more... [More]

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Pay as you go is one of the characteristics of cloud computing service.  To provide such a service we need to track the usage data for each cloud offering. For example, in an IaaS cloud platform, the usage data is normally the CPU, Memory, Disk, Network.  For a SaaS cloud offering like Maximo as a Service (MaaS),  the usage data required to charge the cloud offering consumer may be the business usage data, such as: how many assets are managed in the cloud for how many days, how many service requests or work orders are processed Tivoli... [More]

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After releasing Tivoli Service Automation Manager 7.2.2 in July with a great deal of new capabilities to cover customer use cases, now IBM Service Delivery Manager 7.2.2 is available. In addition to leveraging Tivoli Service Automation Manager V7.2.2, it Adds new monitoring capabilities of the virtualized infrastructure through Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers V6.2.3 Provides enhanced metering and accounting capabilities, leveraging Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager V7.3 Is delivered as a set of virtual machines for simplified... [More]

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Would you like to expand your TUAM Cognos reporting experience? The TUAM team are pleased to announce the delivery of 10 new Cognos reports, that enhance TUAM Cognos reporting in the following ways: Graphs and Pie charts have been introduced giving users an at-a-glance view of the current situation. Trend reports are now available, allowing users to view how those accounts accruing costs and how costs are being recovered by rate codes. New reporting functionality has been added that extend the existing report set by providing new reports which... [More]

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As businesses adopt cloud environments to control IT complexity, pool resources, and improve cost efficiencies, the TUAM development team have been engaged in evolving the usage and accounting capability in IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM) beyond traditional Enterprise charge-back.  In such a shared cloud environment the ability to accurately assess which IT resources and services are being utilized, how much they are being utilized, and by whom is fundamental if service providers are to justify the cost of the IT resource and... [More]

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I had great discussions at Impact 2014 on  DevOps, SmartCloud Orchestrator ,   SoftLayer , BlueMix and so much more.  One of the most common topics I was asked about was how SmartCloud Orchestrator relates to PureApplication System.   SmartCloud Orchestrator shares common pattern technology with PureApplication System allowing the same pattern to be moved between environments, and it also provides orchestration capabilities that can be used directly with PureApplication to add significant capabilities to your cloud... [More]

The open beta program for the upcoming IBM SmartCloud Provisioning release started: Freely download the code , run it unattended in your premises without the need to sign a non-disclosure agreement Discuss what you think about that on a dedicated forum Watch demonstrations of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning capabilities in the work and tell us if you like or do not like the newest features just clicking a button. Join our community to get early access to and provide feedback on cloud provisioning and orchestration technologies Stay tuned to the... [More]

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