| In today's competitive and growing business | | | | manipulated more easily than numerous individual |
| environment, information is an increasingly valuable, | | | | physical disk and tape devices. Virtualization can |
| but costly organizational asset. | | | | further improve resource utilization, simplify storage |
| The volume of information is growing very rapidly in | | | | management and accelerate application deployment |
| most organizations and the need to protect and | | | | with improved resource sharing |
| manage information also continues to increase. | | | | Automated Management |
| Organizations are seeking to minimize risk, reduce | | | | Understanding the environment and managing it |
| costs, and increase flexibility by aligning IT | | | | cost-effectively is essential and IBM's automated |
| investments according to information value and | | | | management software can help doing that. IBM |
| business needs. | | | | storage management products help with |
| With information on demand, business can respond | | | | understanding how storage is configured and used |
| with flexibility and speed to customer requirements | | | | and in easily making changes to improve the storage |
| and market opportunity. | | | | network. Many tasks - such as provisioning new |
| Getting there involves three aspects: | | | | storage - can be simplified to a single step using our |
| · Infrastructure Simplification (IS): Simplification | | | | advanced automated management software. |
| of the underlying IT infrastructure and its | | | | Business Continuity |
| management to lower the cost and complexity. | | | | The business climate in today's on demand era is |
| · Business Continuity (BC): Assuring security and | | | | highly competitive. Customers, employees, suppliers |
| durability of information. | | | | and business partners expect to be able to tap into |
| · 3. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM): | | | | your information at any hour of the day from any |
| Efficiently managing information over its lifecycle. | | | | corner of the globe. If you have continuous business |
| Infrastructure Simplification | | | | operations, then people can get what they need |
| Infrastructure simplification is a process by which | | | | from your business-helping bolster your success and |
| organizations contain expenses, enable business | | | | competitive advantage.To achieve all this, you need a |
| growth, and reduce operational risks by optimizing IT | | | | comprehensive Business Continuity plan for your |
| resources. Simplified infrastructures hold the promise | | | | business. |
| of improved system optimization and Total Cost of | | | | · High Availability is achieved by means of fault |
| Ownership (TCO), higher personnel productivity and | | | | tolerant, failure resistant infrastructure supporting |
| greater application availability through infrastructure | | | | continuous application processing. |
| resiliency. Once simplified, the infrastructure can be | | | | · Continuous Operations imply non-disruptive |
| better managed for lower cost and with fewer | | | | backups and system maintenance coupled with |
| errors. | | | | continuous availability of applications. |
| Consolidation | | | | · Disaster Recovery means protection against |
| IBM TotalStorage products can help consolidate the | | | | unplanned outages such as natural disasters through |
| storage environment. With fewer elements to | | | | reliable and predictable recovery methods. |
| manage which can increase resource utilization and | | | | Information Lifecycle Management |
| simplify storage management, this can provide the | | | | Information has become an increasingly valuable |
| ability to share storage servers over extended | | | | asset. But as the quantity of information grows, it |
| distances and provide economies of scale for owning | | | | become increasingly costly and complex to store and |
| disk storage servers. There are four main methods | | | | manage. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a |
| of consolidation: centralization of data centers, | | | | process for managing information through its lifecycle, |
| physical consolidation, data integration and application | | | | from conception until disposal, in a manner that |
| integration. | | | | optimizes storage and access at the lowest cost. For |
| Virtualization | | | | small and medium-sized enterprises, predicting storage |
| Virtualization of physical resources is an essential part | | | | needs and controlling costs can be especially |
| of a simplified storage environment. They are more | | | | challenging as the business grows. |
| flexible since the logical files and disks can be | | | | |