Storage efficiency means extracting maximum business value from your storage resources. IBM can help you to optimise your storage systems – disk, tape, SAN and more – while also keeping your infrastructure simple and easy to manage. And as your business – and storage demands grow, IBM storage systems are ready to scale. IBM solutions include:
- Tiered storage
- Consolidated storage
- Virtualised storage
These solutions are designed to reduce costs, improve productivity, minimise risks, manage growth and reduce operating expenses to help you get the most out of your storage resources.
Tiered storage
Automate your tiered storage architecture to optimise the business value of your storage investment, maximise performance and reduce operating expenses.
- Efficiently use solid state disk to increase performance up to 300% on critical apps.
- Reduce costs by migrating less critical data to less expensive media.
Consolidated storage
Consolidate storage to simplify management, reducing administrative costs and improving cycle time
- Scale out storage to manage billions of files from a single, consolidated system.
- Scale up storage with systems that can scale to store petabytes of structured data.
Virtualised storage
Quickly provision storage, efficiently support virtualised servers and increase flexibility to quickly meet changing business needs.
- Increase utilisation of existing storage by up to 30%
- Reduce TCO up to 66% by deploying automated, virtualised storage.
Featured integrated solutions
IBM System Storage DS8700 with Easy Tier
The IBM System Storage™ DS8700 offers the new IBM System Storage Easy Tier feature to help you deploy high performance solid-state drives (SSDs) efficiently. With Easy Tier you can automatically move only the appropriate data to SSDs, based on ongoing performance monitoring. You get the performance benefits while ensuring efficient usage and simple management.
IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage system
The IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) system is designed to meet the massive – and growing – storage demands of today’s information-driven organisations. Scaling up to 14.4 petabytes in a single, global view the system also offers efficient, policy-driven storage for millions or even billions of files.
IBM San Volume Controller (US)
IBM San Volume Controller (SVC) is designed to improve business continuity and IT staff productivity with automated provisioning and simple management of all storage area network resources through a single easy-to-use interface.
What we offer for storage efficiency
IBM has leading hardware, software and a full line of services designed to help meet all your storage efficiency needs.
Storage
- IBM XIV Storage System
- IBM System Storage Virtualisation
- IBM System Storage TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z
- IBM System Storage DS8700
- IBM System Storage Disk Systems
- More information on IBM Information Infrastructure related storage offerings
Services
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