Increasingly, organisations have found that they can benefit by adopting information lifecycle management (ILM) principles. IBM Information Lifecycle Management Services - assessment, planning, design and implementation is designed to enable an information-centric IT environment.
Highlights
 | Classifies data to help simplify management, improve access and lower costs |
| Supports regulatory risk-management and compliance |
| Helps simplify storage management and enable reduced costs and increased flexibility through storage optimisation and virtualisation |
| Promotes cost savings and rapid return on investment (ROI) through enhanced data management |
IBM Information Lifecycle Management Services - assessment, planning, design and implementation helps organisations develop and execute roadmaps for managing information with a more efficient IT infrastructure. Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a set of best practices that help align information costs with the business value of that information. As part of these disciplines, client data will be classified and prioritised according to how it will be used for business decisions.
Assessment, planning, design and implementation can help organisations transition to an environment based on ILM principles. IBM will not only assess the gaps in current storage and data practices, but also design and implement strategies that can help deliver the desired benefits -- such as easier access to data for improved decision making and innovation, reduced costs, lowered risk and improved regulatory compliance.
IBM's ILM services help clients adopt best practices for ILM, with focus on five entry points:
Storage Optimisation delivers cost reduction and infrastructure simplification for clients focused on controlling demand for storage, improving asset utilisation and reducing hardware/software/ storage personnel costs. IBM uses proven techniques to help clients reclaim/consolidate storage space, identify initial storage management inefficiencies, determine opportunities to leverage additional technology enablers and outline initial data rationalisation policies.
Storage Virtualisation enables clients to leverage virtualisation to increase flexibility and utilisation for clients focused on improving asset utilisation, reducing data migration effort and reducing hardware/software/storage personnel costs. This uses proven techniques to accelerate data migration, increase storage infrastructure utilisation, enable changes to the physical storage with minimal or no disruption to applications and simplify management.
Integrated ILM enables clients to maximise and sustain efficiency by improving their current people, processes, and technologies. This approach leverages proven techniques to optimise tiered storage environments, classify and manage information, establish information management policies, develop a robust storage governance model, improve information productivity and align variable cost hardware with information classes and classes of services.
Integrated Information Management enables clients to enhance and automate information management processes. Services for this entry point leverage proven techniques to develop/enhance optimised end to end information and storage management processes and automate and orchestrate processes such as provisioning and data movement.
Archiving and retention enhances systems performance and enables organisations to better manage risk and streamline regulatory compliance. IBM uses proven techniques to reduce storage cost by transferring older information to lower cost disk and tape, improve system performance by reducing database size and address retention requirements by archiving information held in storage designed to be non-erasable and non-rewritable.
Drawing on 30 years' experience helping organisations leverage storage and data management technologies for business advantage. IBM can plan for, design and implement systems that include data classification, storage optimisation, virtualisation and archiving and retention. IBM uses documented best practices, tested methodologies and the industry-specific expertise of IBM consultants and architects around the world, to help deliver storage infrastructure recommendations and assistance that are integrated with other aspects of an organisation's IT environment. |
