Simplifying storage lifecycle management: IBM tiered storage management helps reduce costs and complexity (63 KB)
As organizations across all industries are adding daily to the mountains of customer data, financial records, e-mails, images and other electronic content, many are realizing that these heaps of data are actually driving every decision and process throughout the enterprise. Learn how IBM storage software provides powerful capabilities to manage information through its lifecycle.
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.1 (87 KB)
Storage virtualization has come a long way in the past five years. The Taneja Group analyzes this IBM proven, enterprise-ready and scalable storage virtualization solution.
IBM Storage Virtualization — Value to you (640 KB)
The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is designed to deliver significant value to organizations facing the challenges of today's explosive growth in information. This paper summarizes how SVC can help you address challenges in your storage environment. This paper also illustrates how SVC can deliver value, and provides examples of real client experiences.
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IBM TotalStorage Software: Building Storage Solutions in Alignment with current and future business requirements (196 KB)
This IDC white paper examines emerging technologies, with a focus on storage technologies, that allows companies to develop a architecture that can grow and adapt to meet current and future business requirements. These include the deployment of a tiered storage infrastructure, virtualization, and integrated server/storage management. It also examines several existing tiered storage and storage management products within IBM's TotalStorage software product family.
ITG — Value Proposition for Enterprise Storage (70 KB)
This white paper shows the clear advantages of information on demand using TotalStorage for reducing costs, increasing flexibility, and the enormous value of virtualization. ITG estimates that "five-year IT costs for an IBM-based enterprise storage infrastructure supporting a broad range of systems are 38.7 percent and 29.2 percent less than for equivalent EMC- and HDS-based infrastructures respectively."
SNIA SSF Virtualization Demonstration (70 KB)
The purpose of this white paper is to document the vendor-specific portion of the SNIA SSF Virtualization demonstration. Each vendor has authored its own paper on a common template. The specifics of the environment, a brief product description, the product setup and configuration, the tests performed, and the results of the testing are convered herein. Also included, where appropriate, are the surprises found along the way that will be taken back to the lab to help improve the products.
IBM Storage Solutions: Reducing Cost and Complexity (485 KB)
The goal for IT managers concerned with the trend toward higher capital and management costs in their storage environments is to find ways to reduce the complexity that their administrators must deal with and to reduce overall storage expenditures. This paper focuses on IBM storage solutions and a selected list of their integrated capabilities for reducing cost and complexity.
IBM Storage Solutions: A total cost of ownership study (140 KB)
In November 2002, IBM sponsored an independent study of over 200 IT managers with storage area networks (SANs). The main objectives were to discover and quantify the main drivers of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for SANs, to understand the pain points in managing SANs and to quantify how various technology improvements could reduce these costs. The study shows that improvements that reduce the complexity and centralize the management of storage have the potential to save costs.
IBM Storage Solutions: Delivering High Availability (631 KB)
The goal for companies with no business tolerance for downtime is to achieve a state of business continuity, where critical systems and networks are continuously available, no matter what happens. This paper focuses on IBM storage solutions and a selected list of their integrated capabilities for delivering high availability.
IBM Storage Solutions: Managing Growth (392 KB)
In the storage environment, the costs involved in managing change associated with growth contribute directly to an overall TCO that has been described as being so significant, that the initial purchase price is no longer important. This paper focuses on IBM storage solutions and a selected list of their integrated capabilities for managing the change associated with growth.
IBM Storage Solutions: Evolving to an on demand operating environment (123 KB)
The ultimate value of an on demand environment will be how it facilitates integration of data across your business processes and also that it frees up resources to work on this integration. This paper discusses the role of storage in helping you evolve to an on demand operating environment.
IBM Storage Solutions: Delivering the value of an open environment (301 KB)
IBM adheres to the belief that the full benefits of storage systems will only be realized through the use of common, open interfaces. Open interfaces, such as the SNIA SMIS, combined with the modular hardware and software components in the IBM storage solution, mean that IT managers have the flexibility to choose to implement their on demand operating environment using both IBM and non-IBM components.
The road to information on demand: Infrastructure Simplification (273 KB)
This white paper explores Infrastructure Simplification and the role it has in for saving costs, reducing risk and increasing flexibility. Infrastructure Simplification is a method of deploying IT to improve application availability, personnel productivity and systems optimization and utilization. Specific capabilities for removing storage complexity — through consolidation, virtualization, and automated management are also discussed.
