Highlights

• Provides efficient planning and implementation services to speed adoption of disk and tape storage, network-attached storage, and storage software technologies
• Offers project management, technical expertise, methods and tools for effective and timely data migration efforts
• Helps lower project risk and improve the effectiveness of hardware and software

Optimising your storage environment

Cost-effectively and efficiently storing, managing and protecting data is a constant challenge faced by IT organisations. To compete effectively, firms look to optimise and simplify their storage infrastructure, which often requires acquiring new storage and data hardware or software. Frequently, organisations lack the available internal resources needed to implement new technologies and migrate data to these environments.

IBM Storage and Data Product Services provide assistance in planning and implementing components, training your staff on their use and helping to efficiently migrate data. Using proven methodologies to speed planning and implementation IBM Storage and Data Product Services are specifically designed to help you implement hardware or software in your storage environment. By using proven methodologies and tools and by collaborating with IBM hardware and software experts and original equipment manufacturers, IBM professionals can provide project planning and technical assistance, as well as train your designated personnel—helping to speed your implementation and ability to gain value from your IT investments.

Easing data migration challenges with time-tested approaches, expertise and tools IBM works closely with you to understand your data migration needs and your business and technical drivers for success—such as how much time you have to complete the project and making sure that you can quickly and effectively manage your new environment. Combining disciplined, project planning and management methods with time-tested technical expertise and appropriate tools—including those for mainframe and open systems environment migration—IBM can help you achieve efficient and timely data migration that minimises the impact on application performance and system availability.

Improving the effectiveness of your technology while lowering project risk

Risk comes in many forms, such as data loss or corruption, poor application performance and non compliance with regulations. It can also come from implementing new technologies or from migrating data to the target environment. IBM works with you to help you deploy new disk and tape storage systems, or storage software, and effectively leverage their capabilities. In addition, IBM can help enable you to reduce the system downtime required for data migration to minimum levels through careful planning, analysis and application of the right tools, in a disciplined way.

Leveraging the experience of a global team

IBM Storage and Data Product Services can help provide you with a cost effective, scalable and resilient storage infrastructure to support your business applications. We draw on our project management and technical best practices, along with our product knowledge, to help speed your implementation while quickly and cost-effectively migrating data to your new environment.