Flexible, scalable storage solutions for the on demand world
Storage hardware, software, and services are as important to a dynamic enterprise as servers and networks. Because of the explosion of information in most data centers, storage can be more challenging to tame than server resources, but potentially more beneficial. IBM has a history of innovation in developing proven and tested technologies for the future.
IBM addresses key technologies to help you manage and expand your business.
Rising infrastructure costs coupled with a growing emphasis on energy efficiencies lead you to seek new means to manage your budget. To maximize the return on your IT investments, you want solutions such as tiered storage offerings, storage consolidation and advanced virtualization.
Here are a few examples of how IBM System Storage can help you manage the explosion of data in the most cost-effective way.
NAS
The new IBM N series N6060 NAS delivers increased performance up to 26% higher than its predecessor. Standard features like thin provisioning and deduplication significantly reduce required storage capacity, power, cooling, and data center space. N series N6060 offers optional software for Information Compliance, SnapLock, and Information Security, Disk Sanitization.
XIV Storage System
The XIV Storage System can enable up to four times better power efficiency vs. other high-end disk systems of comparable raw capacity, performance, and reliability levels. The XIV virtualized design, thin provisioning, and efficient snapshot capability can enable up to 50% better capacity utilization which can lead to significantly lower costs for associated power, cooling, hardware, software and maintenance costs.
Tape
Tape provides the lowest total cost of ownership alternative for securely storing long-term archives for recordkeeping and disaster recovery. As data centers and data stores grow, manual tape operations can become more complex. This growth can lead to increased backup and restore times and higher management overhead and costs. Tape automation and tape virtualization are designed to help provide an increased level of operational simplicity and energy efficiency and increased reliability to provide significant operational efficiencies.
And, by implementing data deduplication to reduce the amount of data that must be managed, data centers can reduce the amount of hardware required – thus helping to decrease operational expenses for power and cooling – reduce tape media costs, and make it easier for storage administrators to cope with drastic increases in raw data and increased complexity in the rest of their storage infrastructures.
