Web infrastructure orchestration

Packaged Intelligence = Policies and workflows

By leveraging the unique capabilities of the IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator product, IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration allows customers to utilize resources where they support business results most efficiently by proactively sensing and responding to peaks in demand and allocating IT resources to the most important processes based on business policy. This optimization of resources - hardware, software, applications, networking, clustering, etc. - can often result in a doubling of utilization.

Although many IT providers can make a claim to helping customers better allocate their IT resources, what makes the IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration solution unique is the "packaged intelligence" gained from customer engagements that have been included in the product in the form of policy-based workflows. These workflows help the underlying IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator product make smart decisions on how to orchestrate the IT environment. These sequences of automated best practices articulate the administrative and management steps designed to integrate the business processes and priorities of an organization, and help the IT environment reach the desired state of operations.

To increase the efficiency and speed of provisioning from bare metal up to the running application, IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration leverages IBM Director functionality in the automated best-practices that control the IBM eServer BladeCenter hardware, unleashing the power of BladeCenter and providing comprehensive remote management from a single graphical console.

The IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration solution also helps product a customer's critical data through the use of IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM TotalStorage Solutions. This component manages and protects an organization's data from hardware failures and other errors by storing backup and archive copies of critical data with advanced replication services, delivering business continuity and facilitating effective disaster recovery.

"IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator raises provisioning in the enterprise to a new level. It intelligently drives technology provisioning to dynamically meet the immediate needs of the business, which is significantly different than the technology-focused approaches that have been used to date. Service delivery will be much more effective, efficient, and closely aligned with the company's business objectives."

Rapid Time to Value, Scalability, Extensibility

The IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration solution is designed to help customers quickly gain return on their investment, as the solution has been pre-tested and pre-integrated in IBM labs, enabling shorter and smoother deployment. To increase the time to value, IBM has designed optional services to make IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration faster and easier to deploy.

Furthermore, extra value is achieved as the solution is flexible and extensible to the growing needs of the business and allows for expansion to an open and heterogeneous environment, if required, including supporting the management AIX, Intel, zSeries, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Solaris platforms and Java, SNMP, XML, SOAP, and Linux open standards.

Designed to Fit Your Business

IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration was designed to help reduce IT costs, increase resource utilization, manage increasing amounts of risk and achieve quicker and more flexible operational changes. Its exclusive design embraces the individual customer environment using policy-based infrastructure orchestration to manage business priorities and allowing organizations to introduce best practices and rules into its operation through workflows.

IT Tasks	Manual Process	Automated Process	Manual Time	Automated Time	Savings
Identify appropriate resource for additional workload	Human error High skill level	Resources identified based on business need	3 Days	< 1 Hour	2 Days
Software installation	Slow implementation High skill level	Remote bare metal OS install/software provisioning	5-10 Days	< 1 Hour	5 Days
Configure security and network settings Human error	Slow implementation	Automated configuration of network/security settings	5-10 Days	< 1 Hour	5-10 Days
Return server to free pool	Human error Poor process	Return server to free pool	Variable	Automated	Higher Server Utilization
Total Time	--	--	13-23 Days	.5 Day	10-20 Days