By Monami Thakur | February 14 2012 11:46 PM
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) announced software designed for reducing cost.
The Tivoli Storage Manager 6 will improve scalability and address performance, reduce duplicates, and simplify the overall management data protection infrastructure. As part of IBM's Service Management strategy, Tivoli Storage Manager 6 aims to cut capital expenditures, reducing risks and energy consumption.
General manager Al Zollar of IBM Tivoli in a press release statement says that a Large or small, businesses today are faced with ever-increasing amounts of data and pressures to cut costs. The new features introduced with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6 will help customers manage the explosion of data while maintaining reliable access to important business information. With increased visibility into data growth and enhanced scalability, customers can accommodate increased volumes of data, control the rate of backup data growth and improve efficiency across their storage environments.
In a report from IBM internal studies, a customers can get as much as 300% improvement in backup performance when a Tivoli team ups with IBM's DB2 database software that will surely cut operational costs with improved scalability and performance.
The new software will also offer new reporting and monitoring features with a quick and easy create custom reports flexibility.
The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6 will be available March 27, 2009.
Actors are often known for their on-screen romantic and passionate kisses. However, off-screen, kissing can be an awkward business even if the person is a celebrity.
Author Rene Yasenek once said that kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.
From Angelina Jolie to Kate Winslet and even Barack Obama, let's take a look at some of the famous celebrity kisses of all times.
Included in our list of famous celebrity lip-locks is the brief kiss between Prince William and Kate Middleton that took place on the Buckingham Palace balcony on the occasion of the royal wedding. The kiss sparked cheers from the already ecstatic crowds, and was repeated during the flypast.
For many of the hundreds of thousands of well-wishers gathered below the famous balcony, the kiss was the royal wedding moment they were waiting for.
Another famous kiss is the one between President Obama and the First Lady Michelle as they dance at the Eastern Regional Inaugural Ball in Washington on Jan 20, 2009.
Start the slideshow to take a look at some of the famous pictures of celebrities kissing:

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