Business information is an increasingly valuable—and costly—organizational asset. Organizations are seeking to minimize risk, reduce costs, and improve efficiency by aligning IT investments according to information value.
The increasing volumes of data and speed of decision-making are driving organizations to consider Information Lifecycle Management solutions for their mission critical applications, such as SAP, Oracle, and others. A long term strategy with the right technology platform can help your organization keep vital business data safe, archive data with the ability to retrieve files speedily, and reduce TCO.
Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a process for managing information through its lifecycle, from conception until disposal, in a manner that optimizes storage and access at low cost. Implementing a series of best practices for storage infrastructure and information management can help companies achieve real savings while protecting valuable information assets.
IBM is able to help customers implement an ILM strategy through any or all of the following means:
Storage Optimization to help reduce costs
Virtualization to help increase flexibility and utilization
Enhancement and Automation of Information Management Processes
Archiving and Retention to help protect valuable information assets
The good news is that you have broad flexibility in how you approach ILM, and IBM can help you achieve both immediate and long-term benefits. You may choose to begin by simply implementing tiered storage or virtualizing your multi-vendor storage environment. Later on, you could implement an archiving and retention strategy to help provide access and protection for nearline data.
While other vendors may offer you choices that result in you purchasing more disk, IBM offers a broad spectrum of technologies that include disk, tape, virtualization, and information management capabilities as well as services and expertise that are designed to help drive your success in implementing an ILM strategy. IBM's service capabilities can guide you through the process of designing and deploying an ILM solution, helping put you on your way to lowering your TCO, improving access to critical data and addressing data storage compliance goals.
System p solutions
IBM System p, in conjunction with IBM System Storage, provides a highly flexible end-to-end server and storage solution designed to help maximize your infrastructure investment.
