Tivoli Software
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Tivoli Software encompasses a set of products originally developed by Tivoli Systems Inc.. IBM bought the company and ran the operation as its Tivoli Software division. Additional products were acquired and run under the Tivoli portfolio brand. Since 2013 IBM appears to be phasing out use of the Tivoli Brand.
Tivoli Systems Inc. was founded in Austin, Texas in 1989 by Bob Fabbio, Peter Valdes, Todd Smith and Steve Marcie who all were former IBM employees. Bob Fabbio in an interview indicated the purpose was to provide systems management on systems from a diverse set of vendors while at IBM he had been directed to focus on IBM products only. As an independent software vendor Tivoli Systems developed and sold Tivoli Management Environment (TME) "systems management" software and services. The then CEO Frank Moss saw the company listed on NASDAQ on March, 1995 and the subsequent merger into IBM in 1996.
Tivoli Software became a brand within IBM's Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure division. IBM initially grew the software portfolio under the Tivoli brand through development and acquisition. There are some thoughts this may have resulted in the brand containing a large set of overlapping and marginal products In April 2013 IBM renamed "Tivoli Software" Division to "Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure". IBM seems to continue to move from the Tivoli brand also as exampled by the explicit rebranding of Tivoli Storage Manager to IBM Spectrum Protect™ and the renaming of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler to IBM Workload Scheduler as of release 9.3.
According to IT analyst research firm Gartner, Inc., IBM in 2012 owned the largest share of the "IT Operations Management" software market, with an 18% market share. IBM is also the leading provider of Enterprise Asset Management software, for the 7th consecutive year, according to ARC Advisory Group, a leading research analyst firm for industry and infrastructure.
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