IBM SmartCloud Storage Access

Improve productivity and storage service quality with IBM SmartCloud Storage Access

Feature Benefits
Self-service provisioning for end users and administrators
  • Enables users to provision their storage through a nontechnical, easy-to-use portal
  • Automated provisioning process provides consistent and higher service quality
  • Enables cloud and department/customer administrators to use the portal to manage either the entire storage cloud or a region of the storage cloud
  • Provides strict, role-based access control for security
Web-based access
  • Enables access from any location at any time
Monitoring and reporting capability
  • Enables simple reporting per resource pool or department
  • Enables cloud administrators to monitor capacity usage automatically by setting capacity warning thresholds and by enabling automatic system notifications when the threshold is reached
  • Enables reporting charts that provide history usage information: cloud and department administrators can clearly see the data used in the past, which facilitates planning and rebalancing the storage cloud as needed
  • Enables end users to view their own data-usage histories
Service catalog
  • Allows administrators to define storage classes and make them available to departments where users can then request storage on any storage class available to that department
  • Enables storage classes to be defined with different “service profiles” with the flexibility to customize and define service levels based on performance, capacity isolation or disaster recovery policy; profiles can be either “predefined” or “custom”
Capacity elasticity
  • Makes additional capacity available either on demand or via administrator approval, depending on the setup
  • Allows cloud administrators to process automatic approvals when needed
Approval process support
  • Automates the request process from end user to department administrator or cloud administrator
  • Allows cloud administrators to define the approval policy for provisioning actions
  • Allows cloud administrators to delegate approval to department administrators
Third-party authentication server integration
  • Allows users to use the existing authentication server (AD/LDAP) for better user management integration

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