Migrating to IBM System Storage

As you are making the decision about migration of your server infrastructure to IBM servers, you might gain additional benefits with storage virtualisation or storage migration. Storage virtualisation can help prevent disruptions to your data availability as you are moving and adding servers. Storage migration and consolidation can also help reduce your overall total cost of ownership (TCO) and the complexity of your IT infrastructure at the same time. So the question really is — why not?

Let's face it: There is not a "one-size-fits-all" solution for storage environments. The performance and availability in a storage environment can either enhance or hamper your business processes. That's where IBM comes in. We can help determine the optimal storage infrastructure and begin exploration of additional storage capabilities such as archiving, information lifecycle management, constant availability and data protection. We have expertise — the strategic vision and proven skills to help deliver these values to you quickly. What's the IBM advantage? You get some of the best storage products, technologies, services and solutions in the industry, without the complexity of dealing with different hardware and software vendors and system integrators.

IBM System Storage is a market leader in the storage industry. Innovative technology, open standards, excellent performance, a broad portfolio of storage-proven software, hardware and solutions are just some of the reasons why you should consider IBM System Storage.

Before you make your next storage investment, we ask you to:

• Compare the breadth of our storage software, hardware and solutions offerings
• Compare our technology
• Compare our prices
• Compare our IT Services and support offered
• Compare our financing options
• Compare our quality, reliability and dependability

IBM Systems Storage Data Migration Services deliver intelligent storage migration services and expertise to assist the hardware and simplify the task of migrating data from one array to another and ease the process of migration overall by insulating the applications and data from the underlying physical infrastructure.

Before you make your next storage investment, we ask you to:

IBM hardware-assisted data migration services (US)

IBM System Storage portfolio of storage offerings consistently and reliably brings information to the people who need to innovate and make better decisions—anytime, anywhere, regardless of how they store information and without disruption. Here are just a few examples:

ISO — the premier source of information about property and liability risk conducted a pilot data migration for a claims processing application. Thanks to IBM hardware-assisted data migration services they were able to keep the application running during the migration. As a result migration required far less time than ISO anticipated.

Charles Vögele Trading Group AG (US) — operates 788 clothing retail stores. By using IBM storage virtualisation they now take advantage of the latest in resilient technologies that are helping them reduce costs.

SACMI — a world leader in manufacturing machines and complete plants for the Ceramics, Beverage and Packaging, Processing and Plastics achieved outstanding improvements in scalability, capacity, and reduction in management costs.

Star — a leading provider of managed technology services, created an environment for storage and application hosting, using IBM System Storage to automatically match resources to changing customer demand. Star has achieved an estimated 85% more efficient use of IT resources which has lowered costs for Star and its customers.