With Tivoli SANergy, customers can efficiently centralize their disk storage resources to reduce administration overhead, improve network bandwidth performance, and achieve greater ROI. Tivoli SANergy enables users implementing storage area networks (SANs) to transparently share access to common storage, volumes and files.

Centralized disk storage volumes and files can be shared by multiple computers running UNIX®, Mac OS® and/or Microsoft® Windows® to provide higher bandwidth and lower CPU overhead than server-based sharing over an IP network. The resulting high-performance shared storage environment can significantly reduce IT costs by consolidating storage space and eliminating the replicated data common to multihost environments. Tivoli SANergy helps you reach your full SAN potential.

Tivoli SANergy eliminates the one-to-one relationship between the number of SAN-connected computers and the number of disk volumes needed by those computers. Tivoli SANergy transparently enables multiple computers to share single disk volumes on the SAN-storage. In fact it allows many combinations of computers running Windows NT, Windows 2000, MacOS, Irix, Solaris, AIX, Tru64, Red Hat Linux and DG/UX to all share the exact same disk volumes at the same time - across platforms. And if the applications running on those computers are capable, Tivoli SANergy even enables the transparent sharing of the exact same files at the same time - across platforms.