Why IBM System Storage?
Bringing together infrastructure management, virtualisation and productivity software, IBM System Storage™ systems deliver innovative disk, tape and storage networking solutions.
The IBM System Storage advantage
With explosive growth in data, many organisations are struggling to manage, protect, mitigate risk, and maintain rapidly growing information assets while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Getting control of service levels and growth rates, while reducing business risk and optimising storage management costs, requires a sound information infrastructure - a fundamental aspect of IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure strategy and the backbone to a company's means of storing, protecting, accessing, and extracting new insights from its data and information.
Efficient. Rapid. Cost effective.
Facing the challenges of the information explosion with finite IT budgets, clients require smarter systems -- systems that raise the bar on efficiency, performance and cost savings while lowering management complexity. IBM is announcing storage solutions to address these needs while providing clients with a rapid return on their investment.
Storage efficiency – store less, move data to the right place, get more from what’s on the floor
- Speed deployment and time-to-value with IBM® Storwise® Rapid Application Storage solution
- Benefit from an integrated solution with IBM Implementation Services for IBM Storwise Rapid Application Storage
- Shrink primary, on-line data in real time and store up to 5 times more data on the same disk without performance degradation with IBM Real-Time Compression.
New levels of application performance in VMware environments
- Improve application performance with IBM XIV® Storage Systems support for VMware application interface New cost-effective replication software for Storwise V7000
- Reduce risk with IBM FastBack for Storwise V7000, a bandwidth-friendly IP-based solution for disaster recovery and business continuity.
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