Among Tivoli IT Director's new customers is Guardian Capital, a leading investment management firm offering twenty-one public mutual funds that cover the full array of domestic and foreign investment options, including money market, bond, balanced and equity funds to Canadian mutual fund investors. In conjunction with its strategic partners in Toronto, New York and London, Guardian Capital offers access to investment expertise in all of the world's major financial markets. Guardian Capital was a participant in the Tivoli IT Director 2.1 beta program and is rolling out the new version of the program to proactively and to centrally manage its IT environment. In addition to its home base in Toronto, Canada, Guardian Capital's IT environment spans two remote sites in Montreal and Vancouver. Consequently, we've traditionally operated in a reactive mode.
Customers now have more choice and the ability to manage more platforms in their IT environment.
This support enables IT managers to collect and monitor CIM and DMI system information through Tivoli IT Director for enhanced inventory management and reduced total cost of ownership. From the Tivoli IT Director console customers can discover, monitor and manage NT clusters that are becoming more common for use in mission critical IT environments. In addition, with a 20 percent lighter footprint and 50 percent faster Java console than its previous version, Tivoli IT Director 2.1 lessens the impact on system resources and provides customers a more responsive interface to their entire IT environment. Tivoli SMB Product Line Tivoli provides a complete line of products for smaller businesses, spanning systems management, network management, applications management and storage management. Tivoli IT Director 2.1 is extended by application management modules including Tivoli Manager for Domino, Tivoli Manager for Exchange, Tivoli Manager for Norton 2000 and Tivoli Manager for SQL Server.