Service detail
To maximize new storage technology investments, organizations need efficient data migrations that help limit the risk of data corruption or loss—and business disruption. IBM Migration Services for open systems attached to System Storage™ disk systems provides professional services performed by technical specialists to plan and manage a nondisruptive migration of data to the IBM System Storage disk systems.
Highlights
 |  |  | Helps you quickly realize the value of your storage technology investments |
 |  |  | Simplifies data migration to minimize potential business disruption and data loss |
 |  |  | Leverages IBM skills and methods to help ensure a successful migration |
Providing efficient data migration services while minimizing disruption
New demands for information and data, combined with escalating IT management costs and a shortage of professionals skilled in emerging technologies are driving the need for more efficient server and storage infrastructures. Organizations also want to gain more value from their information and data to improve decision making and employee collaboration and to spur innovation. These business objectives require an effective, flexible and scalable storage infrastructure. Many organizations are moving to new storage technologies with the timeliness and accuracy of data migration becoming critical success factors. However, IT managers may find that their staff lacks the technical and project management skills for a quick and efficient data migration.
IBM Migration Services for open systems attached to System Storage™ disk systems can help simplify data migration in open systems environments while addressing issues of complexity, disruption, system performance, host availability and data integrity. IBM provides highly skilled storage specialists who possess project management and storage technology skills along with methods and tools to support a reliable migration of your data.
Features
These services are available in the following ways:
- Custom priced to meet your unique data storage capacity requirements
- Pre-sized in increments of 2, 5 or 10 terabytes of data
- As an easy-to-order ServicePac® in 2-, 5- or 10-terabyte increments including travel and living expenses
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Migration Services for data for open systems attached to System Storage disk systems (prepackaged) (144KB)Migration Services for data for open systems attached to System Storage disk systems - ServicePacs (126KB)
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