Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. The Enabling Framework of Tivoli Scott Courtney Public-access sites can also experience sharp peaks in demand as a result of news events or other external, random factors. Laudati says that Infocrossing customers experiencing sudden, unanticipated peaks, can dynamically purchase additional capacity and then release it when it is no longer needed. When it gets to around eighty or ninety percent, we can dynamically increase the amount of resources provided.
Reliability is the other factor that keeps Infocrossing firmly in the pro-mainframe camp.
They have customers using other systems, such as Solaris, Linux, and NT on RISC and Intel hardware. But when the bottom line is depending on the machine never going down, Linux running under IBM's VM hypervisor operating system is the configuration of choice. In other words, Infocrossing provides a place for ASPs to host their applications but is not itself an ASP, at least in this particular context. They started with IBM's Tivoli management framework as a base, then added a proprietary upper layer as a value-added proposition for their own managed hosting customers. Moreover, the Tivoli suite of products is an enterprise-class framework, and that kind of software requires more than just installation.