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