Fight storage sprawl with IBM storage virtualization solutions

Modern businesses live and die by the ability to effectively capture, store and utilize data. With the accelerating pace of data growth, simply adding disks is no longer enough. IBM storage virtualization solutions can help you keep ahead of storage demands with a proactive and integrated approach to storage infrastructure management.

IBM storage virtualization unlocks “logical” volumes from physical locations, making information more readily available to business applications across the infrastructure. With a virtualized storage infrastructure organizations can drive greater utilization of storage assets, enable greater flexibility and responsiveness to rapidly changing business demands and significantly simplify storage infrastructure management.

Proven solutions for storage virtualization

As a leader in both storage technology and virtualization solutions IBM is uniquely positioned to help you transition toward a dynamic infrastructure. Server virtualization gives you the flexibility to define and deploy virtual servers almost instantly. To take advantage of this flexibility you need a storage solution that is equally flexible. IBM storage virtualization solutions are designed to function within an integrated portfolio of virtualization solutions that can ultimately enable automated storage management processes such as tiered storage, intelligent data replication, space optimization and more.

Get the more from your data while spending less

IBM storage virtualization can help you:

• Support business agility by making storage provisioning fast, easy, and flexible
• Dramatically improve storage utilization rates
• Extend the value of investments by transparently pooling diverse storage assets
• Improve productivity with reliable data access across the organization
• Optimize physical media access for energy efficiency
• Enable easy scalability to keep pace with data demands
• Simplify storage infrastructure management, even to a single point of control

Ultimately, the business value of the IT infrastructure is defined by its ability to deliver the right data to the right resources at the right time. IBM storage virtualization makes that process faster, easier and more efficient, helping you extract more value from your infrastructure investments and from your available data.

IBM has the hardware, software and a full line of services designed to help meet all your virtualization needs.

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