IBM DS4700 Series Computer Drive User Manual


 
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The future of your business is already here
IBM System Storage™ solutions are built with the success of
your business in mind. End-to-end storage ingenuity and
unmatched expertise from IBM help you reduce costs, risks
and complexity while improving efficiencies and the
responsiveness of your infrastructure and people.
Go green for the planet—and your bottom line
Saving energy means saving money. Get a green “thumbs up”
when you implement IBM System Storage solutions to drive
down runaway costs in power, cooling and space. Regardless
of the size of your business, IBM offers energy-efficient
strategies and savings for a sustainable enterprise.
Power up your savings by powering down storage
inefficiencies
Prepackaged storage kits and advanced systems virtualiza-
tion from IBM facilitate easier ways for you to reduce costs,
lower energy consumption and dramatically improve storage
utilization—without affecting performance.
Automated tiered storage management and exceptional data
mobility let you better match applications and investments to
the value of stored data—saving both time and money.
Easy come, easy grow with a nimble, responsive IT
infrastructure
Being responsive to changing business needs is often easier
said than done. IBM System Storage helps you unlock busi-
ness resiliency and stay ahead of everyday challenges, with
easy-to-use, affordable storage offerings that flexibly manage
growth, complexity and risk.
Effectively manage your data with the strength and simplicity of
IBM System Storage
Simplified storage platforms from IBM use graphical inter-
faces and integrated systems to effortlessly manage both
physical and virtual resources across a heterogeneous
environment—for easier management of your growing
business.
IBM System Storage platforms allow you to dynamically and
reliably scale storage with pervasive infrastructure flexibility to
keep you in control of data growth and costs.
Protecting data is vital to operating efficiently under normal
business conditions—and rapidly recovering during emer-
gencies. System Storage helps you reduce risk with rock-
solid data protection tools and high availability across the
enterprise, especially when you need it most.
Broaden your business horizons with innovation that
matters
Imagine breakthrough innovations that allow you to run your
organization not only faster, but better, helping to attract new
customers and gain competitive advantages. System Storage
solutions help you stay consistently out front so that you can
make strategic decisions on how to use advancements in
technology to broaden your business and gain a better return
on investment.
Transform your business through innovation that matters
Delineated along a clear technical roadmap to help ensure
smooth upgrades and transitions, IBM storage platforms are
designed to meet even the most stringent data storage
requirements, regardless of changes in future technology.
The long-term binary compatibilities of System Storage plat-
forms foster longevity of the equipment, applications and
skills that support your organization, even as new systems
are introduced.