IBM Streamlines Datacentre Management

September 25, 2008: IBM has unveiled what it is calling the next-generation 'intelligent dashboard' for data centre management, saying the new tool will enable administrators to view, maintain and adjust energy consumption, performance and hardware utilisation in a multi-system, virtualised environment – and do it from a single interface.

Part of its new enterprise data centre strategy, IBM says Systems Director 6.1 is a suite of software tools to simplify management and reduce the cost of administration and energy which, when combine, exceed what is spent on the hardware itself.

It claims that Systems Director can reduce system administration and energy costs by nearly 30 percent in a typical data centre, while reducing complexity and helping admins controls costs better.

“With IBM Systems Director, we're providing clients a means to better understand the complexity and costs associated with managing their datacentre,” Rich Lechner, Vice President, Enterprise Systems. “As a result, clients can coordinate and manage the virtual and physical resources that make up their entire infrastructure.”

IBM says that Systems Director can also reduce downtime by monitoring the "health status" of physical and virtual resources on one server or across the datacentre.

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