The volume of data that businesses need to store continues to grow rapidly, diverting capital expenditure from higher value-add projects towards continual investments in new disk capacity. There is also a significant operational cost element: large numbers of under-utilised disks add to power and cooling requirements, and increase the administrative burden. Businesses are looking to control the cost and the physical footprint of their storage infrastructures, and to enable greater flexibility.
The IBM Virtualised Disk Solution provides enterprise-class storage virtualisation in an affordable package that is ready for rapid deployment. With redundant components to enable very high availability, the solution offers simple and non-disruptive migration of data from existing systems, and is bundled with software that enhances storage management and data protection. With IBM Virtualised Disk Solution, businesses can increase efficiency, simplify management, increase flexibility and control costs for data storage.
Increasing efficiency
Over time traditional storage systems can become inefficient, underutilised and cumbersome, making them complex and costly to run. IBM’s Virtualised Disk Solution (IBM VDS) responds and adapts instantly to your business requirements, significantly increasing utilisation levels. This delivers a great deal more return for every Terabyte purchased.
Simplifying management
Increased disk utilisation simplifies storage infrastructure management. With fewer drives, you’ll have more control and you’ll significantly reduce space, cooling and power costs. There’s no need to continually buy and configure additional kit, putting less pressure on your IT team. As a result, storage-related causes of application downtime can be virtually eliminated.
Increasing flexibility
IBM Virtualised Disk Solution releases storage. Increasing capacity is simple: You can add one virtualised disk, or over 1000 because it’s one of the most scalable and flexible mid-range solutions available.
Controlling costs
Maximising value from your diminishing IT budget is vital if you need to support an ever-expanding storage environment. By investing in your future you can minimise storage expenses and control costs.
Highlights
- Designed to combine storage capacity from multiple disk systems into a reservoir of capacity that can be managed more efficiently
- Designed to help increase storage utilisation by providing host applications with more flexible access to capacity
- Designed to help improve storage administrator productivity by automating provisioning and enabling management of heterogeneous storage systems using a simple common interface
- Designed to support improved application availability by practically eliminating storage-related causes of application downtime
- Designed to enable a tiered storage environment in which the cost of storage can be better matched to the value of data
- Designed to support advanced copy services from higher- to lower-cost devices and across storage systems from multiple vendors
- Designed to reduce costs and improve flexibility with iSCSI host attachment
- Designed to enable greater flexibility in storage acquisitions
- Scalable hugely solution starting from12TB raw SATA storage capacity
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