Storage Optimization
and Integration Services

Efficient data storage services are a business imperative: The demand for data storage capacity is already growing at an annual rate estimated to be as high as 30%. The digital universe is projected to grow from 1.8 zettabytes in 2011 to 72 zettabytes by 2015. Data storage virtualization and consolidation—although essential—no longer suffice. To optimize your storage environment, you need better data management throughout the full data life cycle.

Data storage services from IBM offer a consultative approach to achieving your storage goals by including cost savings, consolidating or eliminating devices, improving tiering, and increasing the effective capacity of your storage. For starters, we can help you optimize data storage virtualization for cost reductions, and prepare your infrastructure to be able to respond to business demands efficiently and painlessly. To further optimize your storage, we can also help you determine how best to manage your data throughout the full life cycle. By applying intelligent data analytics to your storage infrastructure, we can help you ensure that the right data is placed on the right storage at the right time.

Data storage services from IBM can help:

• Optimize your existing storage assets—helping you use more of what is on the floor, to reduce costs while laying a future foundation for your infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to store data more efficiently—including big data—and make better use of the information that you are storing.
• Improve information accessibility and reliability by moving data to the right places at the right times.
• Ensure efficient storage allocation and governance, helping you establish standards that can be used to optimize provisioning, backup, replication and archiving.

Why IBM

We can help you change your storage economics. IBM offers a complete portfolio of data storage services, from assess and plan, migration and implementation services to managed and cloud storage services. IBM supports intelligent data migration between storage tiers, supporting every tier from tape to solid-state. Our services extend beyond virtualization and consolidation; we apply new intelligence to the storage environment that can help you better manage all your data now and into the future.

IBM is continually recognized as a storage solution leader and, according to Gartner Research, is "the worldwide storage service market share leader" with a "Strong Positive" rating.