Storage virtualisation

Overview

The goal

A virtualised dynamic information infrastructure

Organisations today live and die on information. Without the ability to store, protect, manage and access critical information - productivity, client satisfaction and the bottom line can be greatly effected.

Organisations of all sizes are searching for practical ways to create business value, to get their arms around information growth, to correlate insights and to confidently predict outcomes and take action. But without a highly scalable dynamic infrastructure and a cohesive information management strategy, organisations will find themselves facing higher IT operational costs and a greater exposure to business risk.

IBM's innovative storage virtualisation solutions enable resources that can be allocated and controlled on demand, ensuring maximum service flexibility, performance, and robustness for helping clients store, safeguard, retrieve data and ultimately scale for future growth.

The advantage

Continuous access to information and business flexibility

Virtualisation separates the "logical" and physical locations of information, which helps make information more readily available for business applications, regardless of changes to the physical infrastructure. With a virtualised information infrastructure organisations can drive greater utilisation of storage assets, enable greater flexibility and responsiveness to rapidly changing business demands - and significantly simplify the underlying infrastructure.

The benefits

Increased efficiencies and a competitive advantage

Using virtualisation as a part of your information infrastructure strategy can enable you to transcend the physical boundaries of your storage infrastructure so you can free up capacity, improve service delivery, mitigate risks, improve efficiency, and ultimately drive down underlying cost structures.