Designed to simplify management of business-critical information with advanced server-based virtualization
Supports rapid expansion of available storage space while avoiding downtime
Supports rapid back up and restore of data with integrated Snapshot™ technology
Support for native cluster managers to help achieve high availability
Online replication of production data for business continuance
Integration with native Microsoft Windows tools helps make management intuitive and easy in the Windows environment
Capability to easily create virtual disks with multiple terabytes of capacity
The challenge: Managing expensive enterprise data storage infrastructures
In today’s global marketplace, enterprises of all sizes are producing enormous amounts of business-critical information from a variety of sources—enterprise applications, corporate e-mail, data warehouses, and line-of-business applications. In an effort to keep up with the explosion of digital information, companies have created cumbersome, expensive-to-maintain storage infrastructures. Now such organizations are struggling with the high costs of managing that enterprise information.
The solution: Cost-effective storage virtualization with IBM System Storage N series and SnapDrive software
IBM System Storage™ with SnapDrive® software can help you reduce the cost and complexity of managing storage. SnapDrive software offers a rich set of capabilities designed to virtualize and enhance storage management for Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, AIX®, HP-UX and Solaris environments. It is tightly integrated with the native file system and provides a layer of abstraction between application data and physical storage associated with that data.
