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The IBM® Midmarket Software Buying and Selling Guide is tailored specifically to help the management and IT staff of small and midsized businesses evaluate how the IBM midmarket portfolio can provide simple and cost-effective solutions to common business problems. We designed this IBM Redpaper™ publication to help IBM teams and Business Partners improve their effectiveness in serving small and midsized businesses. We illustrate how IBM software for the midmarket can help businesses use the Web to reduce expenses, improve customer service, and expand into new markets. We cover the IBM software offering for the midmarket, which includes what the software does, the platforms it runs on, where to find more information, and how it can help your business become more profitable: -IBM Business Partners often keep a printed copy of this guide in their briefcases for software references -Customers can view this guide online and look up software-value messages and IBM product family offering comparisons -IBM Sales Representatives can print parts of this guide as for customers, to give them extra collateral on midmarket software of interest

IBM® Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provides an easy-to-use console for remote OS deployment and management. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment offers flexible alternatives for creating and managing operating system cloned or scripted image installs. IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provides significant IT cost savings and business operating efficiencies that ensure the strategic advantage of your business. This IBM Redguide™ publication discusses the business benefits of using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment and demonstrates, by means of customer scenarios, how to implement a highly efficient Image Management System with Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment.

Retail environments, like many other industries, are continuously seeking ways to reduce costs and improve their competitive advantages. One area where cost reduction is at play is with the IT deployed in the warehouses. Because this environment is so distributed, significant cost savings can be achieved if the hardware and software can be maintained without having to be physically present in the warehouse. This IBM® Redpaper presents the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment software product as a solution to help customers reduce costs for deploying operating systems to point-of-sale devices in a highly distributed environment. Additionally, this paper introduces a solution that is developed specifically for IBM Technical Support to reduce the recovery time whenever a software or hardware failure requires a system to be redeployed. The audience for this paper includes IT managers in the retail sector and technical support people in areas with point-of-sale or kiosk systems. Technical support people in other highly distributed environments can also benefit from the information included in this paper.

Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems and applications to computers using the PXE (Pre-boot eXecution Environment) industry standard for bare-metal installation. A bare-metal installation eliminates the need for an operating system to be present on a local disk drive. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is a turn-key solution to the most common provisioning issues and provides an easy to use, turn-key solution for education, SMB or larger accounts. In this IBM Redpaper we discuss how to deploy Linux systems using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. Note that this Redpaper is specifically geared to IT Specialists, who will be working on Linux deployment projects. For a full discussion of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, including installation, customization and other product integrations, you can refer to Deployment Guide Series: Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment V5.1, SG24-7397.

Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems and applications to computers using the Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) industry standard for bare-metal installation. A bare-metal installation eliminates the need for an operating system to be present on a local disk drive. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is a turn-key solution to the most common provisioning issues and provides an easy to use, turn-key solution for education, SMB, or larger accounts. In this IBM Redpaper, we discuss how to deploy Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. Note that this IBM Redpaper is specifically geared to IT Specialists who will be working on Vista deployment projects. For a full discussion of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, including installation, customization, and other product integrations, refer to Deployment Guide Series: Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment V5.1, SG24-7397.

Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems and applications to computers using the Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) industry standard for bare-metal installation. A bare-metal installation eliminates the need for an operating system to be present on a local disk drive. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is a turn-key solution to the most common provisioning issues and provides an easy to use, turn-key solution for education, SMB, or larger accounts. In this IBM Redpaper, we discuss how to design and implement a highly effective image management solution for small, medium, and enterprise accounts, taking network bandwidth limitations and large OS image sizes into consideration. We also cover the considerations for choosing an image management solution and the benefits of implementing such an environment. Note that this IBM Redpaper is more geared to IT Architects. For a full discussion of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, including installation, customization, and other product integrations, refer to Deployment Guide Series: Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment V5.1, SG24-7397.