Infrastructure simplification is a process by which organizations contain expenses, enable business growth, and reduce operational risk by optimizing IT resources. Simplified infrastructures hold the promise of improved system optimization and TCO, higher personnel productivity and greater application availability through infrastructure resiliency. IBM TotalStorage products are designed to help SAP clients obtain these benefits through consolidation, virtualization, and automated management. Once simplified, the infrastructure can be better managed for lower cost and with fewer errors. For SAP customers, having a simplified and resilient infrastructure means less resources and time in managing, monitoring, and updating the infrastructure and more time on running SAP applications and running the business.
There are three ways to accomplish this:
Consolidation - IBM TotalStorage products can help consolidate the storage environment to be more resilient
Virtualization of physical resources are an essential part of a simplified storage environment.
Automated Management - Understanding the environment is essential and IBM's automated management software can help.
