Now more than ever, businesses require access to information anytime, anywhere. Key components of IBM’s Information Management software portfolio, DB2, Informix, and DB2 Enterprise Content Manager integrate data and enterprise content to leverage information on demand. Whether it’s creating a data warehouse, integrating information from multiple disparate data sources, or protecting a company from fraud, IBM Information Management has the right solutions.

Lotus Domino

Enhancing employee productivity and streamlining business processes, Lotus Domino software provides unparalleled collaboration capabilities that can be utilized both as an e-mail and enterprise scheduling infrastructure and as a business application platform.

Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes software is an integrated desktop client option for accessing applications, sending and receiving business e-mail, and viewing calendars on Lotus Domino server.

Monitoring/Automation

Today, businesses rely on the performance and availability of their servers, and experiencing performance degradation or losing availability can result in significant financial loss. Tivoli Monitoring can help increase the availability of servers and avert potential performance problems. With Tivoli Monitoring, businesses can monitor the status of business-critical servers in real time, take actions to implement preemptive fixes, and collect historical information for use in performance and business impact analysis.

Security

Total Storage Management

Today’s industry leaders face the ongoing challenge of retaining, managing, and protecting mission-critical data and applications. Enter TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, TotalStorage Productivity Center, and Tivoli Storage Manager.

TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller simplifies storage infrastructure. Designed to allow changes to physical storage with minimal disruption to applications, SAN Volume Controller combines the capacity of multiple disk storage systems into a single central storage pool, increasing manageability and productivity.

To help companies manage the capacity utilization of their storage systems and databases, TotalStorage Productivity Center centralizes the management of storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on. This single management application allows companies to monitor, configure, and do problem determination on heterogeneous storage infrastructure.

Tivoli Storage Manager provides centralized, automated data protection that can help manage costs, reduce risks associated with data loss, and ensure compliance with regulatory data retention requirements.

Tivoli Storage Manager enables companies to protect their data from failures and other errors by storing backup, compliance, and disaster-recovery data in a hierarchy of offline storage. With its high scalability, Tivoli Storage Manager can help protect computers running a variety of operating systems, on hardware ranging from laptops to mainframes, connected together through the Internet or various area networks. Plus, Tivoli Storage Manager utilizes web-based operational monitoring, which allows administrators to manage backup operations and to avoid potential problems before they can occur.

With its IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, IBM Rational software helps businesses automate, integrate, and control the critical process of software and systems delivery. Offering an array of products and practices, this open, proven solution spans the entire lifecycle of software and systems delivery in four stages: Architecture Management, Change and Release Management, Process and Portfolio Management, and Quality Management.

WebSphere is the leading software platform for today’s e-business. Industry leaders choose this flexible, open platform to help deliver fast, reliable results today that create opportunities for e-business growth tomorrow.

Providing a range of middleware software and nonpareil support offerings, the WebSphere platform is internet infrastructure software that enables companies to institute and integrate next-generation e-business applications across an entire enterprise. These applications, which include everything from simple Web publishing to enterprise-scale transaction processing, transform the way companies manage customer and employee relationships.

Moreover, with WebSphere Extended Deployment infrastructure virtualization capabilities, businesses gain a more flexible infrastructure for their service oriented architecture (SOA). For example, application resources can be allocated dynamically in response to changes in workload demand. WebSphere Extended Deployment contains the following components, which can be purchased together or individually: Operations Optimization, Data Grid, and Compute Grid.

For more information, go to http://www-306.ibm.com/software/, or contact Michael Fredenburg at mfredenburg@directsys.com.