In today’s business environment, your information infrastructure must support big data, helping you store it securely and access it efficiently. IBM offers storage solutions that make it possible to generate insight from vast quantities of data—fundamentally changing the way you use information. You need information infrastructure solutions that can filter vast quantities of data from almost any connected device; analyzing the data while still in motion; deciding what, if any, data must be stored; and even virtually integrating the data with traditional data warehouses.
Why IBM for information infrastructure
IBM offers innovative solutions that can help you capitalize on the growing volume, variety and velocity of data – without adding complexity.
These tailored solutions can help you select the right mix of technology, services, and financing for your important projects. Whether you need to improve storage efficiency or data protection, IBM information infrastructure solutions offer outstanding value.
IBM information infrastructure solutions are designed to help you keep up with big data and address challenges around storage efficiency or data protection. This will lead your company toward improved productivity, service delivery and reduced risk while streamlining costs.
IBM offers a range of solutions including:
- The new IBM XIV Gen3 which demonstrates how storage can simplify management and provisioning, particularly for virtualized environments
- The IBM System Storage tape controller for System z which can improve total cost of ownership and reduce library footprint for mainframe data
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What we offer
Storage efficiency
Estimates say that data volumes will grow by a factor of 44 in the next ten years. As data volumes grow, you need to store more data in less space. Explore how IBM storage efficiency solutions can help you get the most out of your storage investments by improving productivity while reducing costs.
Data protection and retention
IBM data protection and retention solutions enable you to safely store big data – back it up, archive it, get access to it -- when you need it for day-to-day business decisions, audits or disaster recovery. These solutions support automation, integration and high performance to help you protect your data, find it faster and put it to work sooner.
IBM differentiation
Business Intelligence Platform Integration
Correlate disparate information across the value chain up to 600% faster
Continuous Data Protection
Get applications and users up and running within minutes following a data loss
Data Deduplication
Lower backup storage acquisition costs by up to 70% or more while reducing energy, cooling, floor space, management requirements and maintenance costs
Encryption and Security Management
Encryption at the drive level improves security with little or no performance impact
Enterprise Storage
Choose optimized enterprise storage solutions for Linux, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS environments
IBM Real-time Compression Appliances
Only storage compression solutions that can shrink primary, online data in real time, without performance degradation.
IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage solutions
An integrated solution that improves storage efficiency and application availability
IBM XIV Storage System
Harnesses a revolutionary architecture to deliver exceptional performance, reliability and ease of management for all enterprise storage needs
Information Archiving
Optimize application performance and simplify application administration, while lowering total costs
Next Generation Storage Systems
Smarter solid-state storage deployments with optimized storage tiering and efficient movement and management of information, while reducing administrative effort.
Next Generation Storage Systems
Revolutionary disk systems can help deliver Tier 1 functionality at Tier 2 costs
Scale Out NAS
Manage vast repositories of information in enterprise environments
Solid-state Storage Architectures
Optimize tiering by adding solid-state storage. IBM solutions can efficiently move and management of information on SSD, while reducing administrative effort.
Storage Management
Improve storage utilization up to 20% and simplify administration
Storage Virtualization
Reduce SAN disk cost by increasing utilization by up to 30% and simplifying administration
Storwize V7000
A midrange virtualized disk system with built-in storage efficiency capabilities
Information Infrastructure hot topics
Private storage cloud demo
Optimize your storage for VMware environments
Edison Group analyst report
Tony Pearson
Senior IT Storage Consultant
Tony Pearson presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line as well as various Tivoli storage software products.
He also leads client workshops to help with strategic planning for IBM's integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products. He is author of the book "Inside System Storage: Volume I".*
Tony's blog - Inside System Storage
This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to storage and storage networking hardware, software and services. It was rated one of the top 10 blogs of 2006 for the IT storage industry by "Networking World" magazine. It has been published in book form as "Inside System Storage: Volume I", and is available to order in Hardcover (link resides outside of ibm.com) or Paperback (link resides outside of ibm.com) versions.
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Tony Pearson is a Senior IT Storage Consultant and Master Inventor for the IBM System Storage product line with over 20 years experience in IBM storage.