IBM System Storage N series with SnapDrive software

Highlights

• 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.