IBM acquires CIMS Lab

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On January 25, 2006, IBM announced it acquired CIMS Lab, Inc., a privately-held software company.

CIMS Lab was a leading provider of software that helps businesses track the usage of computing resources across virtualized technology environments – such as servers, storage, email, networks, databases, applications and operating systems. The software gathers raw data about information technology (IT) resource usage and converts it into organized financial information that can help companies more easily understand how their technology resources are being consumed across a virtualized infrastructure consisting of many platforms and systems.

IBM's acquisition of CIMS Lab complements IBM's IT service management strategy and our portfolio of management software for virtualized technology. Virtualization helps make it simpler and less expensive for companies to integrate and improve the performance of hardware, software, storage and networks in open and heterogeneous environments. It enables governments, banks, retailers and other organizations to view and manage their many virtual IT resources as one, and dynamically change and adjust them across their IT infrastructures accordingly.