Looking to reduce the complexity and costs of managing your SAN-based storage? IBM System Storage solutions combine the power of IBM storage virtualization and Tivoli® storage management software to help you address these challenges head-on. These solutions are designed to help simplify your storage infrastructure, optimize your storage utilization, and enable your business to adapt quickly and dynamically to variable environments. Virtualization and effective storage management can help you more effectively address the task of building an on demand operating environment.

Benefits:

Designed to combine storage capacity from multiple vendors into a single reservoir of capacity that can be managed from a central point.

Designed to help increase storage utilization by providing host applications with more flexible access to capacity.

Designed to help improve productivity of storage administrators by enabling management of combined storage volumes from a single interface.

Designed to support improved application availability by insulating host applications from changes to the physical storage infrastructure.

Designed to enable a tiered storage environment in which the cost of storage can be better matched to the value of data.

Designed to support advanced copy services from higher- to lower-cost devices and across subsystems from multiple vendors.


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