
In today’s business environment, you need your storage to provide value to your organization; you need it to be efficient and flexible, giving users the functions they need while reducing ongoing costs. Your storage systems can provide the right services to your users. To do this, you need to improve visibility into storage demands so you can better manage, provision and tune your systems. With improved process control, you can also align your storage infrastructure to business priorities. And ultimately, you can improve service quality and productivity by simplifying and automating key management processes.
Visibility
With improved visibility into the data and data utilization in your storage environment, you can improve service, mitigate risk, and reduce cost. This new insight into your storage environment can help you make more intelligent business decisions and respond faster to changing business demands while reducing costs.
Control and automation
By automating management and enforcement of storage policies, you can keep storage infrastructure in its desired state efficiently. This can help you improve service quality, improve data protection, recovery, reliability and integrity while reducing ongoing staff intervention. Automated lifecycle management tools can help you meet information retention mandates, automate provisioning, backup and archive to optimize performance, utilization, lower costs and build agility.
Flexible delivery options
Consolidated, cloud-based flexible delivery models for storage can help you give your end users control of their storage needs – while improving accountability. Give departments the ability to provision storage to meet changing demands and developers the ability to set up systems to build and test applications while also maintaining system reliability.
Featured integrated solutions
IBM Tivoli Productivity Center
Simplify, automate, and optimize storage infrastructure: The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite of storage infrastructure management tools can help customers reduce the complexity of managing their storage environments by centralizing, simplifying and automating storage tasks associated with storage systems, storage networks, replication services and capacity management. This advanced suite of tools can help improve storage TCO and ROI.
Unified Recovery Management (US)
Effective ‘unified recovery management’ can help you improve quality of service for your IT users and customers, reduce administrative costs, and help your business make faster and smarter decisions. Protecting data from accidental or malicious loss and ensuring timely recoverability have become extremely complex challenges in recent years. Finding a single solution to cover all your recovery management needs can be a huge challenge. IBM offers a single Unified Recovery Management interface – the Integrated Solutions Console – so you can manage your entire data protection and recovery management infrastructure from a single administrative portal.
What we offer for service delivery
IBM has leading hardware, software and a full line of services designed to help meet all your service delivery needs.
Storage
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (US)
- IBM Tivoli Productivity Center
- Continuous Data Protection solution (US)
- IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway
- IBM System Storage TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z
- IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (US)
