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IBM launches information infrastructure solutions
By Shoukath Kodubally
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008, 18:55 IST |
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Bangalore: With the amount of information either stored or delivered increasing, an effective data management system is in demand. And majority of the companies may be forced to reorganize their data center facilities to ensure the security of data and also make data storage more efficient. Research firm Gartner foresees that more than 70 percent of the world's global 1000 organizations will have to modify their data center facilities significantly in the next five years.
In a bid to ensure an efficient data management, IT major, IBM has launched its latest storage hardware, software and services. The new solution package will help businesses, governments and other institutions to transform static data into more dynamic information that is accessible in a cloud computing environment. IBM is planning to invest $2 billion over three years in the data management platform.
IBM XIV system offers easier management, greater performance scalability, self-tuning/healing and thin provisioning to help reduce the cost and complexity of information storage while enabling consistently quick access of data for today's dynamic range of workloads.
Another latest solution, DS5000 is a disk storage system which can add interfaces, increase performance, grow capacity as Internet scale demands, and be reconfigured on-the-fly.
IBM has also launched IBM SVC, a new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications.
To support storage optimization the company has developed IBM Scale Out File Services (SOFS) which offers flexible storage virtualization services that will help alleviate data storage challenges by enabling quick implementation of highly scalable, global, clustered network attached storage systems.
Today's information infrastructure suffers from massive inefficiency in both duplicate sources of the same information and excessive energy costs. To meet these needs, IBM has also announced a series of products and offerings which includes IBM ProtecTier, Onsite and Remote Data Protection, TS3500 and DS8000.
"As India goes through a radical shift away from the decades-old client/server model to a radically more efficient Internet-style architecture, we have taken a giant leap to address foreseen customer challenges with the new information infrastructure launch," said, Shashi B Mal, Director, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India/ South Asia.
