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To help you meet your information availability needs, IBM has built high-availability features and technologies into our information infrastructure solutions. These solutions, along with offerings from IBM Global Services, are designed to help deliver continuous and reliable access to the information your organization relies on.
Designed for availability
Hardware redundancy is the framework upon which all other data protection efforts rest - the first step in helping to keep your data and applications accessible. The full range of IBM Storage products, like the XIV Storage System, feature redundant and hot swappable components to ensure that hardware failures don’t affect information availability. Other technologies, such as solid state, RAID, and I/O path failover, help to keep storage and network products highly available. Call home features on disk, tape, and NAS products can detect potential problems and alert your service personnel before an issue arises.
IBM information infrastructure solutions, like the DS8000, feature scalability that allows them to adapt readily to increased storage volumes while still meeting performance objectives.
An important availability technology, mirroring, allows you to instantly copy or “mirror” key information from one location to another location. Mirroring data can help ensure continuous business operations, even in the event of a complete data loss. Mirroring technologies are available on the XIV Storage System, DS8000, SAN Volume Controller and a wide range of other IBM enterprise and midrange disk, tape, and NAS products.
Depending on your requirements, IBM offers a variety of information infrastructure solutions that can help to improve efficiency and success rate for data availability.
Manage for availability
A centralized point of control is a key capability that can directly affect availability in information infrastructures. Storage virtualization allows you to pool multiple storage resources as if they were a single storage device. Virtualization makes data easier to manage, enabling more flexibility to respond to changing data requirements. IBM storage virtualization offerings, like the SAN Volume Controller, are designed to support improved resource utilization, improved storage management, and improved information availability.
With data growing at astronomical rates, you have to juggle how to protect your information in a way that makes it accessible to the right people, at the right time to meet stringent compliance requirements. The TS7650G Gateway offers data deduplication to reduce the total amount of data that must be managed while maintaining the integrity, availability, and accessibility of that data. To help reduce the risks associated with data loss, the Tivoli Storage Manager family can adapt to changes within your IT infrastructure to minimize service disruptions and speed restorations and backups.
These solutions, along with offerings from IBM Global Services, can help you implement a plan based on your business priorities so you can have access to the information you need virtually anywhere, anytime.
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