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Information infrastructure

An information infrastructure is comprised of software, servers, storage, and networks, integrated and optimized to deliver timely, secure, and trusted information throughout the organization and to its customers and partners.

Why IBM for information infrastructure

With the explosive growth in data and information - coupled with demands for projects with rapid ROI - IT infrastructures and storage administrators are reaching a breaking point. Changes are needed to manage information availability, security, regulatory, and compliance requirements on a tighter budget. IBM can help.

And because the health of any business often depends on its ability to take advantage of information in real time; a sound, intelligent information infrastructure becomes critical to supporting new growth initiatives.

IBM offers an innovative approach to help you manage information growth more effectively and mitigate risks with a dynamic infrastructure (US) that efficiently and securely stores and protects information, and optimizes information access.

Control, protect, manage and gain new intelligence (US) from your information with IBM’s leading-edge Information Infrastructure products, services and integrated solutions, supported by world-class expertise and access to top experts from around the world.


What we offer

IBM Information infrastructure solutions are designed to help you manage the information explosion and address challenges around information compliance, availability, retention, and security. This will lead your company toward improved productivity, service delivery and reduced risk while streamlining costs.

Information availability solutions

Improve decision making with continuous and reliable access to information

Information retention solutions

Preserve or purge business records based on business policy

Information security solutions

Protect your confidential information from security threats

Information compliance solutions

Simplify auditing, reporting, and data protection requirements


IBM differentiation

Storage Virtualization

Reduce SAN disk cost by increasing utilization by up to 30%

Data Deduplication (US)

Lower storage acquisition costs by up to 70% or more while reducing energy, cooling, floorspace, management requirements and maintenance costs

Solid-state Storage Architectures (US)

Improve drive response time up to 800% without application tuning

Enterprise Storage (US)

Choose optimized enterprise storage solutions for Linux, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS environments

Information Archiving (US)

Optimize application performance and simplify application administration, while lowering total costs.

Next Generation Storage Systems (US)

Revolutionary disk systems can help deliver Tier 1 functionality at Tier 2 costs

Encryption and Security Management

Encryption at the drive level improves security with little or no performance impact


Storage Management (US)

Improve storage utilization up to 20% and simplify administration

Business Intelligence Platform Integration (US)

Correlate disparate information across the value chain up to 600% faster


Continuous Data Protection (US)

Get applications and users up and running within minutes following a data loss

Information Infrastructure Hot Topics

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