IBM Announces Infrastructure Offerings

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By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

September 9, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM (ibm.com) announced on Tuesday it has released its largest offering of new storage hardware, software and services to date, serving as the foundation for what it claims is the "world's strongest information infrastructure portfolio."

According to the company, the new offerings are designed to enable businesses, governments and other institutions to turn static data managed in silos into more dynamic information that is accessible by individuals wherever they go in a cloud computing environment.  The rising information management demands have caused problems for businesses with outdated data centers, struggling to meet these infrastructures demands.

As part of its New Enterprise Data Center strategy, IBM says it is introducing more than 30 new and upgraded products and services that addresses the key aspects of information infrastructure, with focus on the availability, compliance and retention, and security needs for customers as they re-design their data centers.

Through home-grown innovation, development and the acquisitions of XIV, Diligent, Cognos, Arsenal, Optim, FilesX, Softek, and NovusCG, this massive infrastructure launch marks a $2 billion investment, three years of research and development, and a global team of more than 2,500 storage technical professionals, engineers and researchers from nine different countries.

To address Internet scale availability, IBM has announced a series of new products and offerings, including the XIV system, a scalable disk storage system designed to handle a diverse combination of information; DS5000, a storage virtualization software that enables customers to more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data; and SOFS, flexible storage virtualization services that will enable users to quickly implement highly scalable, global, clustered network attached storage systems. For consolidation and retention, IBM is introducing IBM ProtecTier, a data de-duplication software and hardware that helps customers reduce redundant data by 2,500 percent; Onsite and Remote Data Protection, which helps customers retain and back-up copies of their critical data off-site, and ensure the continuous availability of email and mission critical applications and data on site in the event of a disaster; TS3500, a high density tape storage library frame that can hold up to three-times more cartridges in a 10 square foot footprint; and DS8000, an upgraded high end disk offering that adds more IBM mainframe storage functionality for customers dealing with large database growth in their mainframes. IBM announced new offerings to improve security measures for infrastructures, including enhancing its leading compliance disk storage offering with enhanced drives with 33 percent more disk capacity; TS1130, the world's fastest one terabyte storage tape drive that protects and archives more information with less cost and less energy usage; Tivoli Key Lifecycle Management software, which helps automate the management of keys where disk and tape storage devices cannot be compromised if lost or stolen;  and Remote Managed Infrastructure Services, which give customers a new model for efficient IT management and security with minimal disruption to existing environments.  The new products and offerings aligns critical storage usage to a customer's direct business priorities, helps them reduce the risk, cost, complexity and planning efforts required for large data migrations, and delivers strategic IBM design and implementation services to target client pain-points, says IBM.

"There is no bigger opportunity for our clients than to unlock the value they have in their data centers and help them create smart, innovative offerings for their end users -- the consumer," says Andy Monshaw, general manager for IBM System Storage. "IBM is the only company in the world -- not HP, not EMC, not Sun -- with decades of research, industry knowledge, market leadership and the end-to-end capabilities to make this a reality for our clients."  IBM also announced the global opening of the New Enterprise Data Center Leadership Centers, in effort to accelerate customers' data center transformation initiatives and integrate the new IBM information infrastructure offerings into their data centers.

At the centers, more than 500 IBM engineers and experts across the US and Europe will collaborate with clients and focus on solutions and best practices around energy efficiency, consolidation and virtualization, business resiliency and security and service management and information infrastructure.  IBM Global Financing will also offer low-rate financing and environmentally safe storage asset disposal for the suite of new information infrastructure offerings, with rates are as low as 4.6 percent for hardware purchases, 4.8 percent for software, and 6.3 percent for services for best qualified clients.

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