Move up to IBM System Storage

Is your storage adapted to today's environment? IBM system virtualization gives you the flexibility you need to survive in today's unpredictable business environment.

The right storage systems are critical to a flexible, on demand IT infrastructure—and to meeting today's growing compliance demands. To help you attain both objectives, IBM offers a wide range of performance and capacity options for data protection, disaster resiliency and metro and global mirroring. IBM's key advantage? Our disk, tape, and software products work together to exploit synergies—such as virtualization—across IBM systems. The benefit for you: higher performance and availability across heterogeneous servers and applications, at lower cost and with less complexity.

IBM's integrated approach to storage makes it easy for you to add individual products to your infrastructure, or gain maximum advantage through an end-to-end, scalable solution. Our industry and technical experts are available to create an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy designed specifically for your current and future needs

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DR550 - The total package for data retention policy-based archiving, and Information Life Cycle management

The IBM System Storage DR550 and DR550 Express are designed to help businesses store, retrieve, manage, share, and protect regulated and non-regulated information.

The IBM System Storage DR550 and DR550 Express V3.3 solutions integrate a range of technologies as preconfigured solutions. These solutions provide upgrade options for connectivity and storage capacity, helping to manage up to 112 TB of physical disk storage capacity, and additional external tape or optical storage to petabytes of storage per system. These powerful solutions support the ability to retain data without alteration throughout their designated retention period.

IBM DR 550 vs EMC Documentum + Centera: a closer look

*IBM DR 550 vs EMC Documentum + Centera*
FEATURES	IBM DR550	EMC Centera
Integrated Offering (disk, software, tape, services)	YES	NO
Data encryption of archived information	YES	NO
Provide aggregation of & access to multiple archives	YES; Support for multiple repositories	NO; Separate repository for email
Tiered storage with attached WORM tape which helps with TCO	YES	NO, disk only
Integrated data migration for long term archiving; ability to migrate to newer technology transparently	YES	NO, no media migration path
One stop shopping	YES	NO