IBM on Wednesday announced a significant update to one management tool, and talked up another that it recently shipped.
Both products are aimed at simplifying management of the company's System z mainframes. The announcement came at the 2007 Governance and Risk Management Summit in Sanya, China.
The new and updated products are part of IBM’s five-year, $100 million "Mainframe Simplification" initiative, according to company officials. The simplification initiative, which was announced just over a year ago, aims to make IBM's System z mainframes easier to use and to speed the roll out of applications, making the computers more popular with new and existing customers.
