Highlights

• Simplifies storage infrastructures to reduce costs
• Helps clients build storage infrastructures that are flexible, responsive and secure
• Provides strategic road maps and cost benefit models for storage transformation

Creating data storage strategies that meet your needs today and tomorrow

Today’s enterprises face a dilemma. Organisations increasingly depend on data for business decisions, regulatory requirements and other mission-critical needs, and yet they face significant challenges for storing, managing and protecting it in a manner that is both efficient and cost-effective. As data volumes grow exponentially—and regulatory compliance and security concerns add layers of complexity—businesses need to optimise and simplify their storage environments.

IBM Storage Optimisation and Integration Services offer strategy, planning, assessment, design and implementation services to help clients optimise or consolidate their storage infrastructures; improve and simplify storage management; reduce costs; and better integrate storage with other parts of their IT infrastructures. Utilising IBM’s extensive skills, experience, methods and tools — as well as advanced services for creating virtualised storage and storage grids—clients can create storage environments that support growth and innovation.

Squeezing the best performance from storage investments

Isolated pools of data and underutilisation of storage capacity are simply not acceptable in today’s dynamic, cost-conscious marketplace. IBM can help you devise strategies and lanning road maps for your storage and your overall IT infrastructures to meet performance and cost-efficiency objectives. Our storage management experts can assess your current storage resources and management processes, helping you create and implement more efficient approaches to provide the storage capacity that your business requires.

Getting access to data when you need it, where you need it

If you depend on application performance and availability, you need a storage infrastructure that is up to the task. Our optimisation and consolidation assessment services can help you identify specific candidates for storage consolidation or improved cost-performance, using automated analysis and reporting tools. We can make recommendations to improve processes, technology and governance for your storage environment, and we’ll build project road maps to follow. And we can help reduce the complexity of your storage, helping to lower total costs and reduce the storage management effort required

Including storage in your overall IT optimisation efforts

Businesses increasingly look for end-to-end solution approaches for optimising their IT infrastructures. They want to combine hardware, software or both with a set of consulting, design and implementation services that can meet their affordability requirements and IT responsiveness objectives. Whether these services are used as part of a holistic IT optimisation effort or only for storage-specific projects, IBM has the expertise, methods and assets to help you meet your optimisation objectives.