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IBM TotalStorage storage area network solution
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| Compete more effectively as a service provider
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Do you deal with too many servers, poor use of storage space, lost data, power outages or difficulty with data sharing? The IBM TotalStorage® storage area network solution can help provide better data availability, access and management to support your critical applications—all while helping you compete more effectively as a service provider.
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| Optimize the value of your business information
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The IBM TotalStorage storage area network solution can help expand your company's business opportunities and competitiveness through better access to business data. Our approach:
- Helps you gain control of your data and extract value from it.
- Simplifies planning, design and implementation regardless of storage or system vendor.
- Helps you feel confident with our proven storage and network services expertise.
- Protects your current open system investment by integrating your existing technology.
- Lets you tailor the services you want for your storage network by selecting only what you need.
- Augments your open systems expertise.
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| Access, share and protect data
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IBM Global Services can help integrate complex networks and storage systems into a cohesive, responsive, cost-effective storage area network (SAN) solution. The IBM TotalStorage SAN solution:
- Helps improve asset utilization.
- Centralizes your capital and people.
- Helps optimize stored data and enable growth without disruption through capacity-on-demand.
- Can help reduce your backup window and offer a faster, more effective recovery process.
- Offers safeguards that can help provide more efficient tape utilization and reduce server cycles.
- Helps protect high-priority business applications and objectives with disaster tolerance that can offer continuous availability with minimal impact on performance.
- Provides disaster assistance plans that can help remove single point of failure and enhance load balancing.
- Helps you improve application access to information and enhance data currency with data sharing and access.
- Includes tools that can help simplify cross-platform sharing, while reducing data duplication and transfer.
- Provides the ability to implement new online applications faster by allowing you to change server platforms without moving data.
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| Quickly expand e-business opportunities
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We offer the skilled resources and support to plan, design, implement and run your IBM TotalStorage storage area network (SAN) solution so you can:
- Provide affordable 24x7x365 availability.
- Allocate resources efficiently to improve customer and user satisfaction.
- Leverage your current storage infrastructures while integrating your new SAN technology.
- Improve storage scalability, distance and speed.
- Fuel new applications, such as LAN-free and server-free backup.
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| Optimize your IT investments
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IBM TotalStorage storage area network solution can help you and your Internet data center customers:
- Grow your business with flat or declining budgets.
- Reduce operations costs by consolidating storage.
- Lower your total cost of ownership with open technology.
- Address skills shortage or reduce IT required skills.
- Support unpredictable, explosive IT growth.
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