Security & Storage

Tivoli Access Manager

The complexity and number of logons employees must manage on a daily basis are increasing sources of frustration and lost productivity. In most organizations, employees must remember between 5 and 30 passwords and are required to change many of them as frequently as every 30 days. The time wasted entering, changing, writing down, forgetting and resetting passwords might be in small increments, but those actions are frequent and add up to a significant consumption of employee time. And when employees are locked out because they’ve forgotten their passwords, they cannot perform their jobs — or generate revenue for their companies.

IBM Tivoli Access Manager is an Enterprise Single Sign-On solution which recognizes and responds to password requests from almost any system or application. The Tivoli Access Manager solution supports different types of user authentication from password to smart cards to biometrics, and can store user credentials and its own system settings and policies in any LDAP directory or one of several databases. Users experience simple enterprise single sign-on while connected or disconnected to the corporate network, while roaming between computers, or while sharing a kiosk with multiple users. IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On helps you.

Tivoli Identity Manager

In order to effectively compete in today's business environment, companies are increasing the number of users -- customers, employees, partners and suppliers -- that are allowed to access information. As IT is challenged to do more with fewer resources, managing user identities and their access to resources throughout the identity lifecycle is even more difficult. Typical IT environments have many local administrators using manual processes to implement user changes across multiple systems and applications. As identity management grows more costly, it can inhibit the development and deployment of new business initiatives.

The IBM Tivoli Identity Management solution can help you get users, systems and applications online and productive fast, maintain dynamic compliance to increase the resiliency and security of the IT environment, while helping to reduce costs and maximize return on investment. This flexible, easy to deploy solution can automate and simplify the management of user identities, access rights and privacy policies across the e-business infrastructure. To effectively manage internal users as well as an increasing number of customers and partners through the Internet, IBM Tivoli provides the only integrated solution that addresses all four key areas of identity management.

Tivoli Storage Manager

Today, an On Demand Business faces an expanding set of data-protection challenges and regulatory data-retention requirements. The 24x7 availability of mission-critical data and applications is no longer a goal—it’s a business necessity. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager family of offerings is designed to provide centralized, automated data protection that can help reduce the risks associated with data loss while also helping to reduce complexity, manage costs and address compliance with regulatory data retention requirements.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager enables you to protect your organization’s data from failures and other errors by storing backup, archive, space management and bare-metal restore data, as well as compliance and disaster-recovery data in a hierarchy of offline storage. Because it is highly scalable, Tivoli Storage Manager can help protect computers running a variety of different operating systems, on hardware ranging from notebooks to mainframe computers and connected together through the Internet, wide area networks (WANs), local area networks (LANs) or storage area networks (SANs). It uses Web-based management, intelligent data move-and-store techniques and comprehensive policy-based automation that are working together to help increase data protection and potentially decrease time and administration costs.