Compare Storage Hardware and Storage Software. Learn the benefits of IBM System Storage compared to competitive storage hardware and storage software vendors.
The right storage hardware and storage software 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 hardware and software 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 Infrastructure 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
| 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 |
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