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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TotalStorage Productivity Center: Managing the storage infrastructure with ease

The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) is an open storage infrastructure management solution designed to help reduce costs by:

Simplifying management of complex, heterogeneous storage infrastructures
Boosting storage capacity utilization
Improving administrative efficiency

TotalStorage Productivity Center's central point of control lets you move data among online and offline storage resources throughout the information lifecycle in response to business needs. That's a key requirement for:

Information on Demand
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Data retention mandates

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center vs EMC Control Center: a closer look

*IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center vs EMC Control Center*
FEATURES	IBM TPC	EMC Control Center
Integrated Storage infrstructure management solution and topology console	YES	NO
Presents a consolidated host to physical disk view over heterogenous disks	YES	NO
Integrated with industry's leading storage virtualization technology (IBM San Volume Controller) including configuration, performance and capacity management support	YES	NO
Provides provisioning capability	YES	Limited
Comprehensive Tape mangaement support	YES	NO
IBM offers a comprehensive total solution for IT needs: servers, disks, tape, software, services and financing	YES	NO