The new set of offerings are part of its on demand operating environment designed to link it's customer business objectives and computing resources. They include:

The IBM TotalStorage Virtualization family of products is designed to help users reduce the complexity and management of data in a network. Virtualization provides a single, consolidated point of management, boosting utilization and improving productivity of IT resources. The new products are intended to make it more cost-effective and easier for businesses to run and administer storage environments which house critical customer and financial information.

IBM Server Allocation for WebSphere Application Server which applies grid computing capabilities to help companies manage business applications, which run on different servers and have different usage patterns, as a single environment able to adapt automatically to sudden change. Developed by IBM Software, Systems Group and Research, the IBM Server Allocation for Wepshere Application Server will become available to WebSphere customers later this quarter and will feature IBM Tivoli's systems management capabilities in the second half of 2003.

IBM Web Server Provisioning based on IBM's autonomic computing strategy allows users to switch or add servers to adjust capacity immediately, streamlining IT operations, optimizing resources, and lowering management costs. The solution automatically configures all the necessary software and hardware resources in a given environment, provisioning a server and balancing the load in minutes. Users can switch or add a Blade Center server to increase capacity immediately, streamlining IT operations, optimizing resources, and lowering management costs. The solution, available in the third quarter, automatically configures hardware and software - such as HTTP or Web application servers - in a given environment, provisioning the server resources based on utilization.

"Today our customers are overwhelmed by technology that is too complex and inefficient. With today's announcements, we make the IT infrastructure more integrated and automated, and we hide much of its complexity from the people who need to use it," said Irving Wladawsky-Berger, general manager e-business on demand. "As a result businesses can achieve far greater productivity from their technology infrastructure, and the money they save can be invested in innovation for the future."