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Surf's Up! Wave 2 of IBM's Information Infrastructure Has Arrived: Page 3 of 4

  • Integrated solutions -- IBM feels integrated solutions (notably, Grid Medical Archiving, Scale-Out File Services, and Compliance Warehouse) simplify and speed time to value.

IBM has thrown down the gauntlet to competitors with all its claims. Apart from the individual product claims, they fall into three categories:

    1) Increase efficiency -- The claims for ProtecTIER and XIV fall in this category.

    2) Reduce risk -- Related to the prevention of loss of confidentiality of data as provided by enterprise disk encryption and Tivoli Key Lifecycle Management.

    3) Ready for SMB -- IBM has a strong focus on the SMB market and has announced an expanded suite of information infrastructure solutions and services targeted specifically toward SMBs.

IBM also announced some new data protection capabilities including a cloud-based service for continuous data protection. The company also plans to offer Tivoli Storage Manager as a service for cloud-based backup and restore.