Data management

Leverage your company's core asset — your data

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Can you get more value from your data at less cost?

According to ITG "Overall growth in data and storage volumes is routinely in the range of 30 to 50 percent per year." The cost of managing all of that data is substantial. Database software. Storage systems. Servers. These costs, like the volumes of data, continue to rise. The costs are even greater if data is mismanaged and you run afoul of regulatory demands or risk mistakes and poor service.

IBM Data Management solutions provide you with the capability to:

Manage and control ever-increasing amounts of data
Derive greater value from your data leveraging your existing investments, across complex, heterogeneous IT environments – and with the flexibility to adapt to evolving requirements
Lower costs while you improve ROI by gaining more immediate business value from your data

Data management software from IBM provides the foundation and tools for lowering the cost of data while improving insight to enable better business decisions – and build a smarter planet.

The IBM Data Management family includes products optimised for a wide variety of uses, from personal devices, to embedded business applications, to the largest and most powerful OLTP applications. The portfolio covers everything from database software to data warehousing with business intelligence and analytics to database management tools and more.

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Integrated design, development and testing of application and enterprise databases across heterogeneous environments.

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Protect enterprise data at rest with encryption, access controls and auditing

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Integrated Data Management: Finding the Business Value

Strategies for securing enterprise data

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Building an Enterprise-wide Data Archiving Strategy

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