NASHVILLE, TENN. -- Tivoli management agents will find their way into many different computing devices, starting with IBM servers next month, according to IBM Chairman and CEO Lou Gerstner.
Gerstner spoke today at the Planet Tivoli conference here, in front of a portrait of himself painted just minutes earlier by artist Denny Dent. It was the first Planet Tivoli event he had attended since IBM purchased Tivoli in 1996 for $750 million.
"What we see is a world of Tivoli-ready devices," Gerstner said. He said that Tivoli is working with IBM Research to make chips and embedded devices with management agents in them. Tivoli agents are running in the IBM labs today on Palm Pilots, he said.
Gerstner's announcement that IBM servers will ship Tivoli-ready drew applause from the 1,800 attendees.
He also expressed pleasure with the performance of Tivoli, which has grown to a $1.5 billion business, and noted that Tivoli and IBM have been able to share technology on several occasions.
Tivoli's recently announced Cross-Site product, for example, includes IBM security technology for intrusion detection, he said. Cross-Site is a tool for securely exchanging management information with other companies or sites over the Internet.
IBM learned from Tivoli how to develop software twice as fast, Gerstner said. Using Tivoli's techniques, IBM now develops simultaneously for several platforms, rather than developing software once and porting it many times.
Gerstner also pointed out that Tivoli software will also use IBM pattern recognition technology this summer, to monitor end users' experience and alert a systems manager when something goes awry.
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