Storage efficiency

Optimize your infrastructure through consolidation and tiered storage

Storage efficency.
Maximize the performance and efficiency of your storage.

Data storage must be efficient in order to maximize performance. Today, as the world becomes smarter, nothing is changing more dramatically than IT: the way it's accessed, applied and architected. These rapid changes are leading us into a new era of computing - Smarter Computing. The exploding volume, velocity and variety of data requires optimized systems specifically architected for that task. You need to maximize performance and efficiency in order to balance data storage cost and performance.

Automated Tiering

Help reduce cost and improve access times by storing information more intelligently.

Efficiently use solid state drives to increase performance by up to 200% on critical applications.
Reduce costs by migrating less critical data to less expensive media.

Compression

Enhance throughput and response time by reducing the amount of data processed.

Improve online storage optimization and dramatically lower costs.
Transparently compress primary storage up to 80 percent.
Increase the efficiency of primary, active data--without slowing application performance--with IBM Real-time Compression, the newest innovation in storage efficiency.

Deduplication

Eliminate redundant data, increase agility and improve responsiveness to changing marketplace conditions.

Improved backup and recovery performance.
Sustain inline deduplication speeds of 1,000MB per second or more.

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.

Thin provisioning

Optimize the utilization of available storage by allocating storage space as needed while improving storage utilization rates significantly.

Optimize the utilization of available storage.
Reduce capital costs and lessen the need for new storage devices.

Virtualized storage

Logically aggregate disk storage so capacity can be efficiently allocated across applications and users.

Increase utilization of existing storage by up to 30%.
Move and manage data so hardware can be serviced—all without disrupting users.

Visibility

With improved visibility into the data and data utilization in your storage environment, you can make more intelligent business decisions around efficiency - so that you respond faster to changing business demands while reducing cost.

Featured integrated solutions

IBM XIV® Storage System

The XIV Storage System offers simple and efficient integration for enterprise storage and storage virtualization. And with support for 3TB drives and a fourfold improvement in throughput, XIV Gen3, delivers increased business value to enterprise storage environments.

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IBM® Storwize® Rapid Application Storage Manager

Highly efficient primary storage solution to simplify IT environments with complex management needs.

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IBM Real-time Compression Appliances

Innovative storage efficiency technology for Network Attached Storage solutions. IBM Real-time Compression Appliance STN6500 and STN 6800 can increase storage capacity by up to five times without impacting performance.

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IBM Storwize V7000 Unified

The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified system delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, exceptional ease of use and performance. And now you can store more – and more diverse – data with higher capacity drives, more remote mirroring options and integrated support for file storage.

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IBM System Storage® DS8800

Combining new hardware throughout with a proven, reliable architecture, the DS8800 offers faster system performance and higher capacity in the same footprint than prior models with high performance controllers, support for 3TB drives and 8 Gb/s host and device adapters. The system also now offers automatic placement of your most important data to high performance SSDs with support for IBM Easy Tier three.

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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller is designed to deliver the benefits of storage virtualization in environments from large enterprises to small businesses and midmarket companies

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IBM System Storage Easy Tier

IBM System Storage Easy Tier enables clients to deploy solid-state storage confidently, effectively and economically by automatically and dynamically moving only the appropriate data to the SSDs in the system, based on ongoing performance monitoring.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is designed to manage performance, availability and capacity utilization of storage systems, file systems and databases. It can help automate file-system capacity provisioning and perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface. It can tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the Storage Area Network (SAN) and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric.

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IBM Systems Director Storage Control V4.2.1

The IBM Systems Director Storage Control plug-in offers simpler, unified management of both servers and standalone storage, with integrated capabilities to discover, configure, visualize and monitor storage systems in concert with the rest of your infrastructure. The new IBM Systems Director Storage Control V4.2.1, available on December 16, 2011, extends storage management of IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director VMControl to cover most IBM storage systems and select non IBM storage systems.