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IBM Global Services for System Storage and Storage
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Data Storage Services from IBM can help companies achieve their business objectives
by creating cost-effective data storage solutions that address the requirements of key
business applications. These solutions can support multiple platforms and product ven-
dors, helping to provide enhanced protection for critical business data, increased asset
utilization, availability and reliability levels with reduced management costs.
IBM Global Services, as the leading data storage services provider, brings best practices
from its thousands of customer engagements to work with your employees to integrate
new solutions and technology with your business and IT needs. IBM offers a comprehen-
sive portfolio of data storage services including:
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Analysis of enterprise information needs and environment
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Defined enterprise-wide storage strategies
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Quantified business benefits
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Backup/restore and business continuity planning
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Performance and capacity planning
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Enterprise security architecture
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Storage migration and consolidation
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Networked storage architecture design
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SAN configuration and integration services
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Proof of concept, validation and certification
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Implementation, testing and migration services
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Education and training
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Installation, relocation, cabling and site preparation
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Business and application recovery services
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Systems monitoring and management
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Managed Storage Services
IBM Global Services has a track record in offering services for open and mainframe stor-
age, data migration, installation and support services for IBM and non-IBM environments.
Some examples are:
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IBM Storage Strategy Assessment assists with the vision and strategy, assessment,
architecture and conceptual designs to help customers optimize their storage infra-
structure to new architectures.
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IBM Planning Services for 3494 Automated Tape Library and Virtual Tape Server can
help improve tape storage management and gain control of an often expanding library
of tapes.
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IBM Operational Support Services for Tivoli Storage Manager assists customers in the
planning and implementation of storage management software.
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IBM Managed Storage Services offer scalable, cost-effective storage capacity, man-
agement and backup/restore services on a usage basis.
More information about IBM storage services can be found at
ibm.com/services/storage.
IBM Global Financing
IBM Global Financing offers competitive financing to credit-qualified customers and
IBM Business Partners to assist them in acquiring IT solutions. Our offerings include financ-
ing for IT acquisition—including hardware, software and services, both from IBM and other
manufacturers or vendors—as well as commercial financing (revolving lines of credit, term
loans, acquisition facilities and inventory-financing credit lines) for IBM Business Partners.
Offerings (for all customer segments: small, medium and large enterprise), rates, terms and
availability may vary by country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization or visit
the Web at ibm.com/financing.
System Storage Software/System Storage Services
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Function and Value Highlights
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to provide protection of
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Designed to protect valu-
your 24x7 applications and key data in the event of hardware, able data in the most cost-
software or network failures. It offers move-and-store tech- effective manner
niques and policy-based automation, which are designed to
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Designed to archive inac-
work together to help increase data and application protection, tive data to help reduce
decrease disaster recovery time and lower storage administra- costs
tion costs. It manages inactive data, helping you match the
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Designed to help ensure
value of the data to the most cost-effective storage manage- continuity and recovery
ment practices. Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to scale
easily to protect hundreds of computers running a dozen oper-
ating systems ranging from laptops to mainframes and con-
nected together via the Internet, WANs, LANs or SANs. Tivoli
Storage Manager also offers open, easy-to-use APIs designed
to enable ISVs to more easily adapt their solutions to IBM soft-
ware, helping to allow joint customers to customize, better
secure and extend the functionality of their storage
environment.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
IBM TotalStorage TPC for Replica
tion Two Site and
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TPC for Replication Two Site
Productivity
Three Site Business Continuity
and Three Site Business
Center for
provides disaster recovery man-
Continuity helps you manage
Replication Two
Site Business
Continuity
agement through planned and
unplanned failover and failback
automation for the IBM ESS
replication to a remote backup
site(s) through Metro Mirror or
Global Mirror. The software is
Model 800, IBM DS6000 and
designed to allow you to moni-
IBM DS8000.
tor the progress of the copy
services so you can verify the
amount of replication that has
been done as well as the
amount of time needed to
complete the replication.
Automated failover is designed
to keep your critical data online
and available to your users
even if your primary site fails.
When the primary site comes
back on, the software man-
ages failback to the default
configuration as well.
IBM TotalStorage IBM TotalStorage Productivity
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Designed to help leverage and
Productivity
Center for Data is a Storage optimize existing storage
Center for Data
Resource Management (SRM)
resources and perform storage
tool for storage environments that
management with a high level
provide a set of policy-driven
of control
automated tools for managing
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Designed to help maximize
storage capacity, availability, storage utilization
events, performance and assets,
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Designed to be able to manage
including DAS, NAS and SAN
more storage with the same
technologies.
staff
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
Product Function and Value Highlights
IBM TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for Disk
In a pooled or virtualized SAN
environment, multiple devices
work together to create a storage
solution. IBM TotalStorage
Productivity Center for Disk is
designed to provide integrated
administration, optimization and
replication features for these
environments.
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Designed to help reduce the
complexity and cost of storage
management while improving
data availability
Offers centralized, open
standards–based management
of storage devices
Designed to help enhance
storage administrator
productivity
Offers proactive management
of storage devices
IBM TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for
Replication
TotalStorage Productivity Center
For Replication is designed to
simplify and automate the config-
uration of your replication envi-
ronment allowing for more
effective Metro Mirroring, Global
Mirror and IBM FlashCopy man-
agement. It is also designed to
monitor and automate copy oper-
ations across devices to support a
replication environment.
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Automates the configuration of
your IBM DS8000, DS6000™
and ESS advanced copy serv-
ices features.
Monitors and manages the
IBM DS8000 and SVC copy
operations to ensure success-
ful completion from your
source volumes to your disas-
ter recovery volumes
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
IBM TotalStorage IBM TotalStorage Productivity
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Designed to help predict stor-
Productivity
Center for Fabric is designed to age network failures before
Center for Fabric
help automate the management they happen, enabling preven-
of heterogeneous storage net- tative maintenance
works and works with a broad
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Designed to help accelerate
range of devices, so businesses
problem isolation when failures
can leverage and better use exist-
occur
ing technology investments. It is
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Designed to create a single
designed to provide comprehen-
point of control, administration
sive management of physical and
and security for the manage-
logical configurations for multi-
ment of heterogeneous storage
vendor SANs with automatic
networks
resource discovery, event moni-
toring and alerting, zone control
and SAN error-prediction
capabilities.
IBM TotalStorage Combines Disk, Data and Fabric
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Having Disk, Data and Fabric
Productivity
components together as one allows higher levels of value—
Center Standard
Edition
orderable product.
i.e. combined SAN and Disk
performance reports or auto-
mated workflows to do provi-
sioning (under the control of
Tivoli Provisioning Manager)
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