Why consider IBM® storage for your IBM System ™ / BladeCenter® processor decision? IBM Storage and System x / BladeCenter IT ecosystem’s commitment to open and industry standards provides the flexibility to choose from an extensive range of proven, scale–up and scale–out solutions that are designed to help you quickly respond to business needs while controlling costs. And IBM’s products are designed to interoperate—as an IT ecosystem, helping avoid many of the common issues experienced when pairing different vendors’ products and services.
Our ecosystem leverages industry solutions from across leading suppliers along with IBM Storage infrastructure solutions that help accelerate technology benefits for our clients.
With a wide range of cost–effective scale–up and scale–out virtualization solutions, IBM Storage and servers help you maximize system utilization and simplify manageability. Did you know:
IBM solid state drives can be excellent alternatives to local conventional disk drives for OS boot and simple applications because they are designed with no moving parts. These drives have a high resistance to shock, vibration, humidity, altitude and temperature – providing exceptional reliability, durability, and using less power than conventional drives.
IBM Storage Virtualization is designed to provide single point–of–control for heterogeneous storage resources, pool the storage capacity of multiple disk arrays on a storage area network (SAN), and manage tiered storage supporting IBM System x server virtualization.
All DS4000 models come with IBM’s DS4000 Storage Manager software for configuration, monitoring, event notification, diagnostics and remote management.
The IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center software is designed to enable you to see the data path from the servers to the storage switches and storage systems and to help you easily manage your SANs from a single console scaling from SAN islands to Enterprise SANs.
IBM storage products provide some of the best warranties in the business. Did you know IBM storage offers:
Tape drives that support native attachment to Ultra SCSI, Fibre Channel, ESCON® and FICON® servers
Networked storage supporting Ethernet environments, enabling economical NAS and iSCSI deployments designed as a “unification engine,” helping to allow you to simultaneously serve both file and block–level data across a single network.
When it comes to your data, data that needs to be accessible, protected and available, IBM Storage hardware and software can help you. With information being a key IT asset, and with data increasingly leveraged as a strategic business tool, businesses cannot afford the inefficiencies of unavailability, downtime or underutilized capacity. Take advantage of IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services or the IBM Continuous Availability for Windows solution to help optimize your business readiness.
