The facility will provide better service for the utility's customers, as well as offering call centre services to other businesses under Hyder's business services division. French telecoms manufacturer, Alcatel, is to install an E11m (£6.6m) call...
Second, IBM and HP have management software - IBM's Tivoli and HP's OpenView - that can control not only their equipment but other companies' products as well. Its two biggest competitors, HP and IBM, have similar efforts underway called 'utility...
Likely recipients are IBM's Tivoli systems management software, as well as WebSphere and server products, Telford said. The software can study traffic patterns to predict changes in computing demand and then automatically bring more resources...
The software is now available in IBM's Tivoli systems monitoring product and IBM will be adding it to other software. IBM will add this capability to Tivoli in the second half this year to help companies allocate server resources more effectively.
Big Blue has begun showing off the new product, called Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator, which IBM acquired when it bought Think Dynamics in May. The software lets groups of servers automatically add computing power to jobs that need it or subtract...
Gartner warns that it is the convergence of these trends that will accelerate the issue of software pricing and that end user companies should initiate discussions with vendors now. The other two main hardware trends that will force software prices...