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IBM TotalStorage storage area network solution
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| Manage your storage challenges
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Storage consolidation, data protection, disaster tolerance, data sharing and access—how are you meeting the storage challenges facing IT managers? The IBM TotalStorage® storage area network (SAN) solution can help you solve these issues so your business can grow quickly without disruption.
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| Optimize your storage capabilities
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IBM has a history of technical leadership, delivering high quality solutions to solve growing storage requirements:
- IBM Storage has pioneered every significant development since it invented magnetic disk storage more than four decades ago.
- No company can match the SAN capabilities of IBM. We have an unparalleled portfolio of storage, servers, services and software.
- IBM offers industry-leading storage devices, plus the Tivoli suite of storage management products.
- The IBM Enterprise Storage Server—code-named “Shark”—has penetrated 58% of EMC’s top 200 accounts and 63% of the Global 100. Shark sales are climbing, with over 7,000 terabytes of Shark storage installed. Combined, all Shark enterprise storage servers worldwide hold more than 7 petabytes of data, roughly equal to the printed text of 700 U.S. Libraries of Congress.
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| Provide a scalable, flexible storage infrastructure
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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 can:
- Provide affordable 24x7x365 availability with minimal performance impact.
- Enable vastly improved storage scalability, availability and serviceability.
- Improve information protection and disaster tolerance.
- Improve storage asset utilization.
- Provide capacity-on-demand to enable growth.
- Facilitate universal access and resource sharing.
- Reduce your IT administrative costs and requirements.
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| Proven experience
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IBM Global Services offers numerous solutions for your infrastructure needs. When Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) experienced frequent system outages and enormous costs due to unreliable disk storage, we implemented a storage area network solution featuring IBM 7133 Serial Disk Systems and Vicom Systems SLIC routers. The SAN greatly improved system availability, keeping employees productive, and reduced overall expenses.
Following the promising initial results of the SAN implementation, BCBST quickly rolled the new system into production for less than half the cost of other hardware mirroring solutions—keeping the claims processing system running smoothly.
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| Optimize your IT investments
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IBM TotalStorage storage area network solution can help you:
- Improve storage capacity.
- Integrate your SAN solution in phases while protecting current IT investments.
- Leverage new features and technologies as they become available.
- Benefit from high-quality IBM support.
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