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Information infrastructure storage solutions

With explosive growth in data, many organizations are struggling to manage, protect, mitigate risk, and maintain rapidly growing information assets while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Getting control of service levels and growth rates, while reducing business risk and optimizing storage management costs, requires a sound information infrastructure -- a fundamental aspect of IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure strategy and the backbone to a company's means of storing, protecting, accessing, and extracting new insights from its data and information.

What we offer

Disk Storage

The IBM System Storage Disk Systems products and offerings provide compelling storage solutions with superior value for all levels of business.

Tape Storage

Tape storage, backup, and information management systems.

Storage Area Networks (SAN)

IBM SAN products and solutions provide integrated SMB and enterprise SAN solutions with multi-protocol local, campus, metropolitan and global storage networking.

Network attached storage (NAS)

IBM Network attached storage (NAS) products provide a wide-range of network attachment capabilities to a broad range of host and client systems.

Media

IBM understands that, when storing back up and archival information on tape, customers are committing vital information to a medium that can vary widely in both quality of the cartridge and quality of the tape media itself. As such, please consider the following reasons why IBM branded media should be used in IBM branded tape drives and libraries

Management software

Reduce the complexity and costs of managing your SAN-based storage with these products.

Storage Management Solutions

IBM offers a comprehensive, flexible storage software portfolio that helps organizations address storage management challenges across the enterprise, including data centers, remote/branch offices and desktop/laptop computers. Learn more about the specific components within the IBM storage software family that can help you create a more responsive and resilient storage infrastructure for your on demand business.


XIV storage systems

The IBM XIV ® Storage System is a revolutionary high-end open disk system designed to support key current and future business require-ments for a highly available information infrastructure.

IBM ProtecTIER Deduplication Solutions

The IBM ProtecTIER Deduplication family of products includes the powerful, easy to deploy and cost effective TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance and the ultra-powerful enterprise-class TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for the most demanding IT environments.

Storage Virtualization

IBM has more than thirty years experience in virtualization technologies, with more than 2,000 virtualization systems installed worldwide and more than 100 customer references.

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Barry Whyte

SVC Performance Architect

Barry Whyte, SVC Performance Architect

Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems & Technology Group based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarily works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller virtualization system. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 14 years at IBM he has worked on the successful Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) range of products and the follow on Fibre-channel products used in the IBM DS8000 range. Barry joined the SVC development team soon after its inception and has held many positions before taking on his current role as SVC performance architect. *


Barry's blog - Storage Virtualization

An exchange and discussion of storage and in particular storage virtualization


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Barry Whyte, SVC Performance Architect

Barry Whyte is a product architect involved in day to day SVC hardware and software development and test.