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Surf's Up! Wave 2 of IBM's Information Infrastructure Has Arrived: Page 2 of 4

IBM sets a visionary framework, but also realizes that product and service sales are driven by what it can do for customers today
DAVID HILL
February 19, 2009
  • IBM XIV Storage System -- IBM states that this next-generation storage system scales both performance and capacity, while at the same time helping to reduce power, space, and cooling costs by up to 80 percent.
  • IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition -- SVC virtualizes storage across multi-vendor systems, and IBM claims that it can also increase utilization by more than 30 percent and save up to 50 percent in administration and management costs.
  • IBM System Storage DS8000 -- IBM claims that the DS8000 is the first solution on the market to provide full (hardware-based) disk encryption (FDE) at the enterprise level. FDE follows the work of the Storage Working Group of the Trusted Computing Group, which illustrates IBM's commitment to working with and following the recommendations of industry groups. IBM also announced new DS8000 optional solid state drives and support for more than 1 petabyte of capacity per disk system.
  • Tivoli Storage Manager 6 -- This data protection suite now includes new reporting and monitoring, near instant recovery of Microsoft applications, built-in data de-duplication, and increased scalability and availability via an integrated DB2 database.
  • Enhanced Global Technology Services -- these are categorized into: Information Infrastructure Optimization Services; Information Availability and Data Migration Services; and Information Security and Data Protection Services.

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