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Information availability

Improve decision making with continuous and reliable access to information

Information Availability Solutions - Improve decision making with continuous and reliable access to information

The goal

Continuous and reliable access to information

Your organization's success may hinge on information availability. Providing access to critical information when and where it’s needed, has an immediate impact on employee productivity, client satisfaction, and your bottom line. Even one hour of downtime can have dramatic effects and cause significant expense. Organizations must take steps to ensure information availability so users have reliable access to critical information in real time.

The advantage

Managing information availability for efficiency and cost effectiveness

IBM can help. IBM offers comprehensive services, hardware, and software to help you build and implement an information availability strategy. IBM Information Infrastructure helps your deliver quality information services, even as demand increases or if components fail.

The benefits

Information and business resiliency

IBM Information Infrastructure solutions can help you establish a solid foundation for keeping your information available. By optimizing the software, servers, storage and networks, we can help you create a secure, resilient information infrastructure that allows you to exploit your data, maximize its value, and deliver the required information to the right people at the right time.

Feature Integrated Solutions

Comprehensive Data Protection Solution

Integrated hardware and software solution for enhancing data protection capabilities in a Windows environment ultimately enabling clients restore access to e–mail, files, and databases within seconds, rather than the hours or days it takes to restore using traditional backup solutions.

IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Data Deduplication Gateway

The TS7650G Gateway combines a virtual tape library interface with IBM’s revolutionary and patented HyperFactor® deduplication technology. This technology enables significant savings in disk requirements and costs while delivering the power and reliability of disk-based backups.

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Tony Pearson

Senior IT Storage Consultant

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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 or Paperback versions.


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*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

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Tony Pearson IBM Systems and Technology Group

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.

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IBM Information Infrastructure can help develop a strategy for information availability, keeping your data availabile anytime




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