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Why IBM Information Infrastructure
IBM Information Infrastructure helps organizations manage the
incredible explosion in the amount and types of digital informa-
tion, even during difficult economic times. IBM Information
Infrastructure can help clients lower storage acquisition costs
dramatically while improving data resiliency and security.
Today, IBM offers proven capabilities in core technologies
such as deduplication, virtualization, encryption, and solid-
state storage. New solutions are available for larger organiza-
tions using mainframes, as well as for midsize organizations.
New Smart Business Systems simplify deployment of private
cloud solutions for archiving and network file services.
IBM Information Infrastructure can do much more than help
reduce costs. IBM Information Infrastructure is also an impor-
tant enabler of information-led transformation, which is key to
growth for many organizations. Information-led transformation
is a process through which organizations turn information into
a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization, and
competitive differentiation. Information-led transformation can
help clients use information more pervasively across the organ-
ization, leverage analytics to take a predictive view of the busi-
ness, make real-time decisions, and discover new kinds of
intelligence from the information at hand.
As organizations build new information-driven or information-
based products and services, throughput and availability
requirements will increase dramatically. IBM enables
information-led transformation with innovative technology
that breaks through traditional performance barriers, and with
best practice-based services to help clients manage the transi-
tion. An example is smart use of solid-state storage, where
IBM storage arrays and virtualization controllers with a small
amount of solid-state disk can deliver drastic improvements
in throughput.
IBM Core Technologies to Drive Your
Information Infrastructure
IBM solutions are optimized for the unique needs of midsize
organizations, large enterprises, cloud computing providers,
and others. Clients can get just what they need, saving time
and money. A key benefit of selecting IBM for your next
information infrastructure project is access to a broad portfolio
of outstanding products and services. IBM offers highly rated,
patented technology that delivers unique value.
Some IBM differentiating capabilities include:
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Storage virtualization—Reduce storage area network (SAN)
disk costs by significantly increasing utilization.
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Data deduplication—Lower storage acquisition costs
dramatically while reducing energy, cooling, floor space,
management requirements, and maintenance costs.
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Solid-state storage architectures—Improve drive access
response time without application tuning.
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Next-generation scalable storage—Achieve Tier 1 functional-
ity at Tier 2 costs.
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Mainframe storage—Increase transaction throughput
substantially with IBM’s mainframe-optimized tiered storage,
featuring industry-leading drive-level encryption.
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Self-encrypting storage and security management—
Encryption at the drive level improves security with little or no
performance impact.
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Information archiving—Optimize application performance
and simplify application administration, while lowering total
costs.
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Business intelligence platform integration—Correlate dis-
parate information faster across the value chain.
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Continuous data protection—Get applications and users up
and running within minutes following a data loss.
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Storage infrastructure management—Improve storage utiliza-
tion and simplify administration.
No other major vendor can match IBM’s breadth of information
infrastructure capabilities. IBM offers integrated solutions for
consolidation, data protection, storage management simplifica-
tion, compliance support, and more. IBM technology includes
SAN and network attached storage (NAS) disk systems,
tape systems, SAN switches, storage management software,
services, self-encrypting storage with key management, non-
erasable, nonrewriteable storage for regulatory compliance,
and flexible financing for large and midsize organizations.
Learn more about IBM Information Infrastructure,
including the full range of data storage solutions and
companion software and services offerings, at:
ibm.com/information_infrastructure.
What’s New?
IBM has invested billions of dollars to enhance System
Storage® products and services to better meet the information
infrastructure needs of businesses like yours. This Product
Guide features several new products:
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IBM System Storage TS7680 ProtecTIER® Deduplication
Gateway for System z®
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IBM System Storage N6060 series
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IBM Self-encrypting Storage and Key Management Solution
(Tivoli® Key Lifecycle Manager + LTO® bundle)
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IBM Virtual Tape for Mainframe (VTFM)
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IBM System Storage DS5020
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IBM System Storage DS3950
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IBM System Storage LTO 5 Tape Drives and Libraries
The following products featured in this guide have been
significantly enhanced:
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IBM XIV® Storage System
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IBM System Storage TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication
solutions for Open Systems
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IBM System Storage DS8000® Disk System
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IBM System Storage DS3000 Express
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IBM Comprehensive Data Protection Solution (IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager FastBack bundle)
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IBM System Storage DS5100/DS5300
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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, now with
tightly integrated support for solid-state devices (SSDs),
numerous replication enhancements, iSCSI server support
and dramatic performance improvements