Information Infrastructure for Mid–sized businesses
What is an information infrastructure? Do you need an Infrastructure? You may not think of your storage systems — servers, storage devices, software, and networks — as an information infrastructure, but that is what they are. Your ability to store and access data, to retain data securely, to meet regulatory and compliance requirements and to transform the data into a strategic business asset can provide the edge that puts you ahead of your competitors. IBM information infrastructure for mid-sized organizations allows you to do just that, simply and affordable.
Mid–sized businesses are seeing an ever–increasing amount of feature-rich documents, limitless e-mails, audio and video files, data-intensive new applications, and a slew of government regulations by which they must abide. But storage skills specialization and IT budgets can be a particular challenge for mid-sized organizations. Recognizing that, IBM has developed products and solutions primarily to cater to mid-sized businesses that are easier to afford, deploy, and operate.
IBM N series unified system storage solutions can provide customers with the latest technology to help them improve performance, virtualization manageability, and system efficiency at a reduced total cost of ownership. Several enhancements have been incorporated to the N series product line, to complement and reinvigorate this portfolio of solutions:
The new SnapManager for Hyper-V provides extensive management for backup, restore and replication for Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
New N series Software Packs allow customers to get the benefits of a broad set of N series solutions at a noticeably reduced cost.
An essential component to this launch is Fiber Channel over Ethernet access and 10 Gb Ethernet, to help integrate Fiber Channel and Ethernet flow into a unified network, and leverage current Fiber Channel installations at the time.
New DS5000 enhancements help reduce cost by reducing power per performance by introducing SSD drives. Also with the new EXP5060 expansion unit supporting 60 1 TB SATA drives in a 4U package, customers can see up to a 1/3 reduction in floor space over standard enclosures. With the addition of 1 Gbps iSCSI host attach, customers can reduce cost for their less demanding applications while continuing to provide high performance where necessary utilizing the 8 Gbps FC host ports. With DS5000, you get consistent performance from a smarter design, that simplifies your infrastructure, improves your TCO, and reduces your cost.
SVC EE delivers enterprise-class storage virtualization capabilities but in a more affordable offering optimized to better meet the needs of mid-sized businesses. SVC Entry Edition is designed to help reduce storage costs and improve efficiency. It does this by helping to improve storage utilization, reduce storage growth, simplify management, improve storage administrator productivity, implement tiered storage infrastructures, and eliminate application downtime associated with storage. SVC Entry Edition now supports iSCSI server attachment for simpler and lower cost infrastructure.
Optimized data management requires storage solutions with high data availability, strong storage management capabilities and powerful performance features. IBM offers the IBM System Storage™ DS5020 Express™, designed to provide lower total cost of ownership, high performance, robust functionality, and unparalleled ease of use. As part of the IBM DS series, the DS5020 Express offers:
Register and download a free 60-day trial version of Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack, IBM's continuous data protection and near-instant recovery solution for business-critical Windows servers. With TSM FastBack, you will be able to recover within a couple of minutes any amount of data, from any previous point-in-time, following almost any type of data loss.
The new Comprehensive Data Protection Solution from IBM includes hardware and software that mid–sized organizations need to enhance data protection capabilities in a Windows environment. This solution helps clients restore access to e–mail, files, and databases within seconds, rather than the hours or days it takes to restore using traditional backup solutions.
The IBM System Storage DS3000 is an entry–level storage system designed to meet the availability and consolidation needs for a wide range of users. New features, including larger capacity 450 GB SAS drives, increased data protection features like RAID 6, and more FlashCopies per volume, provide a reliable virtualization platform with the support of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with HyperV.
N6060 series strengthens our current midrange N series portfolio, offering outstanding performance for mid-sized and enterprise businesses and highly efficient storage utilization at an improved total cost of ownership.
IBM is introducing a mid–sized configuration of its self-optimizing, self-healing, resilient disk solution, the IBM XIV Storage System — storage reinvented for a new era. Now, organizations with mid–size capacity requirements can take advantage of IBM’s latest technology for their most demanding applications with as little as 27TB usable capacity and incremental upgrades.
IBM's revolutionary and patented ProtecTIER data deduplication technology provides market leading performance, capacity, and scalability. IBM is now delivering this enterprise-class technology to medium sized businesses that are struggling with protecting rapidly growing amounts of data. The new TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance is an easy to install solution that helps solve backup difficulties without having to make radical changes to the backup environment.
The new Self Encrypting Storage and Key Management Solution is a simple and effective way to secure information on backup, archive, and off–site tapes. The solution bundles IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager with drive-level encryption on LTO4 tape for an automated security solution.
