IBM System Storage N Series and NetApp

Most advanced architecture, flexible clustered scale-out solution

The IBM System Storage N series also provides a selection of features and functions designed to provide a comprehensive set of robust management and operational tools as well as high availability features, disaster recover and data copy services that help the system administration provide a high level of support for environments requiring IP attached storage solutions.

Highlights:

• Provides extreme scalability to accommodate capacity growth
• Enables ubiquitous access to files fromacross the globe quickly and cost effec-tively with IBMActive Cloud Engine™
• Achieves operational efficiency with automated, policy-driven tiered storage
• Lowers TCO by up to 40 percent withautomated life-cycle management andmigration to tape
• Satisfies bandwidth hungry applicationswith scale-out performance
• Supports both random access andstreaming workloads
• Enables disaster recovery and businesscontinuity
  

The demand to manage and store massive amounts of file data continuesto challenge data centers. IBM®Scale Out Network Attached Storage(SONAS) is designed to embrace and deliver cloud storage in thepetabyte age. SONAS can meet today's storage challenges with quick and cost-effective IT-enabled business enhancements designed to grow with unprecedented scale.

SONAS can also deliver storage services that make the supporting technology almost invisible. It allows applications and services to beuncoupled from the underlying infrastructure, enabling businesses toadjust to change quickly. As a result, SONAS can easily integrate withyour organization's strategies to develop a more dynamic enterprise.

Why IBM Information Infrastructure

IBM Information Infrastructure helps organizations manage the incredible explosion in the amount and types of digital information, 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 organizations 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 important 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 organization, leverage analytics to take a predictive view of the business, 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 transition. 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.

NetApp

End to end IT services that address storage and server infrastructure optimization as well as infrastructure optimization services for desktop virtualization projects.

IBM's broad portfolio of technology services, with IBM System Storage N series and NetApp's industry-leading storage products, provides comprehensive, innovative infrastructure solutions.

IBM provides end to end IT services that address storage and server infrastructure optimization as well as infrastructure optimization services for desktop virtualization projects. These services include assessment, planning, design, implementation and management. Together with IBM's N series solutions and the ability to offer the NetApp software portfolio, IBM helps clients improve their alignment of IT assets with current and future business goals, while improving the quality, scalability and reliability of service delivery. Anticipated benefits include reduced IT complexity, efficient storage, server and desktop environments and controlled costs.

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