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Information lifecycle management from IBM
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The goal
Address the fluctuating value of data


The value of data to business operations fluctuates over time. Information lifecycle management (ILM) from IBM can help you manage different types of data in accordance with its business value—to better control costs and improve efficiency. If information management and storage is an issue, resolve it now and start to build sustainable efficiencies.

The advantage
Benefit from IBM's broad ILM capabilities
Only IBM can provide an integrated information lifecycle management (ILM) solution spanning the entire spectrum of ILM requirements, including process, organization, governance and technology.
  • The ILM solution captures best practices from IBM’s world-class services organization, leveraging thousands of man-hours and hundreds of successful engagements.
  • IBM’s extensive portfolio of best-in-class products with built-in support for a wide range of storage products offers multiple entry points, so we can deliver a flexible, customized roadmap that supports a wide range of requirements.
  • IBM’s ILM architecture provides an enterprise-wide view of storage—rather than simply focusing on the hardware. When designing your solution, we also consider the management requirements associated with the storage.

The benefits
Target your biggest storage challenges
IBM can help you achieve your information management objectives through a range of capabilities that target your key objectives. We start by assessing your current environment and identifying your biggest challenges. We then determine what projects could be the best starting point. For example:
  • Reduce cost through storage optimization
    • Reclaim/consolidate storage space
    • Identify initial storage management inefficiencies
    • Determine opportunities to leverage additional technology enablers
  • Increase flexibility and utilization through virtualization
    • Accelerate data migration
    • Increase storage infrastructure utilization
    • Enable changes to the physical storage with minimal or no disruption to applications
    • Simplify management
  • Maximize and sustain efficiency with integrated ILM
    • Optimize tiered storage environments
    • Classify and manage information
    • Establish information management policies
    • Develop a robust storage governance model
    • Improve information productivity
    • Align variable cost hardware with information classes and classes of services
  • Enhance and automate information management processes
    • Develop optimized end to end Information and Storage Management processes
    • Automate and Orchestrate processes such as provisioning and data movement
  • Archive and information retention
    • Reduce storage cost by transferring older information to lower cost disk and tape
    • Improve system performance by reducing database size
    • Address retention requirements by archiving information held in storage designed to be non-erasable and non-rewritable

The approach
IBM solutions have produced significant results
Information lifecycle management from IBM has helped our clients in a variety of ways.
  • IBM helped a large retail and corporate bank in Italy improve performance of its storage environment, increase productivity by 15 percent and save €500,000 with storage optimization.
  • A city government in the United States reduced the cost of managing its storage environment and increased storage infrastructure utilization by 45 percent when it implemented an IBM virtualization solution in its existing storage infrastructure.
  • A leading automotive company saved almost US$100,000 and conforms to stringent government requirements for data retention when it deployed an IBM archival solution.

The financial advantage
Realize near-immediate cost savings
Information lifecycle management from IBM is designed to deliver immediate cost savings by helping you reclaim storage space, better manage information and reduce information redundancy. In addition, the solution is designed to:
  • Help you align your IT investments with the business value of your information.
  • Match the type of storage used to the changing value of your information so you can utilize lower-cost storage options for lower-value information.
  • Reduce the risk of litigation through intelligent information retention policies and integrated search capabilities.
  • Lower costs by automating and streamlining storage management processes.

Next steps
 
Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM financial services specialist.

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