Physical storage consolidation is a straightforward and highly effective technique that can offer dramatic decreases in long–term costs associated with storing and managing data. IBM industry leading solutions based on the combination of IBM and IBM Business Partner planning and data migration services, paired with IBM’s industry leading TotalStorage disk and tape product portfolio.
Key benefits
Consolidation can help eliminate unneeded points of management and reduce the number of physical devices in your infrastructure.
Centralize the physical storage environment with scale up technologies
Consolidate data with scale out technologies
Increase resource utilization to save on storage costs
Simplify storage management to improve productivity
Achieve economies of scale for acquiring and operating disk, tape and network resources
Key offerings
Disk storage consolidation IBM TotalStorage DS family systems can potentially lower long–term cost and complexity. This family of disk storage systems can help improve management efficiencies and flexibility, reduce floor space, and provide point–in–time and mirroring performance and functional advantages.
Tape storage consolidation Demonstrating IBM’s focus on offering a complete portfolio of solutions designed to address opportunities to help you simplify your IT infrastructure, IBM offers outstanding opportunities to consolidate tape systems.
Storage area networking IBM TotalStorage storage area network products and solutions provide integrated SAN solutions with multiprotocol local, campus, metropolitan and global storage networking.
Case studies
ISO, headquartered in New Jersey, helps its customers identify, manage and price property and liability risk. A large and growing decision–support database, combined with customer demands for improved performance, prompted ISO to reassess its storage architecture.
ISO chose to replace its legacy storage platform with two IBM TotalStorage enterprise disk systems and use IBM TotalStorage hardware–assisted data migration services for a smooth data migration process.
The solution has the potential to provide risk management information to customers 24x7, while managing over 10 billion detailed records for premiums and losses.
Because of its flexible open architecture, the IBM TotalStorage enterprise disk platform enabled Steve White, ISO vice president of information system services, and his team to simplify the storage infrastructure by consolidating storage resources for ISO’s distributed computing environment after successfully upgrading the storage platform supporting the IBM mainframe server.
