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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

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  • Designed to combine storage capacity from multiple disk systems into a single reservoir of capacity that can be better managed as a business resource and not as separate boxes


  • Designed to help increase storage utilization by providing host applications with more flexible access to capacity


  • Designed to help improve productivity of storage administrators by enabling management of heterogeneous storage systems using a common interface


  • Designed to support improved application availability by insulating host applications from changes to the physical storage infrastructure


  • Designed to enable a tiered storage environment in which the cost of storage can be better matched to the value of data


  • Designed to support advanced copy services from higher- to lower-cost devices and across storage systems from multiple vendors

San Volume Controller
Helping organizations speed their journey to on demand computing The real-time exchange of ideas, insights and experiences is critical to your goal of becoming an on demand business. Building upon transactional processing, today’s new technologies are enabling collaborative processing—going from point-to-point to multidirectional interactions in a more open, shared and dynamic way. But in order to take advantage of collaborative processing, businesses need to improve their underlying infrastructure.

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  • Combine storage capacity from multiple vendors for centralized management
  • Increase storage utilization by providing more flexible access to storage assets
  • Improve administrator productivity by enabling management of pooled storage from a single interface
  • Insulate host applications from changes to the physical storage infrastructure
  • Enable a tiered storage environment to match the cost of storage to the value of data
  • Apply common network-based copy services across storage systems from multiple vendors
  • Support data migration among storage systems without interruption to applications
  • not applicable—software


 
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