As the world becomes more digitized, information is becoming your most important asset. You need available, reliable information to run your business, to service your customers, to improve the effectiveness of your employees and to collaborate with your business partners. It's how you, your customers, your business partners and your employees get answers. But digitized information can also be deleted, stolen or simply misplaced among volumes of useless data. Managing this rapid growth in data requires a more sophisticated approach, one that helps you understand, classify, protect, and retain your data according its purpose and value. And of course, it needs to do it cost effectively.
IBM offers a comprehensive, flexible storage software portfolio that helps organisations address these storage management challenges across the entire enterprise, including data centres, remote/branch offices and desktop/laptop computers. Click on any of the elements in the chart and learn more about the specific components within the IBM storage software family that can help you create a more responsive and resilient storage infrastructure for your on demand business.
IBM storage solutions also are part of the IBM Service Management (ISM) strategy and portfolio. IBM Service Management solutions automate IT department processes for planning, justifying, and managing appropriate levels of resources needed to support business services. The focus is to ensure that systems resources such as storage, servers, applications and networks are used in an optimal fashion that aligns IT with business strategy. When change or investment is required, it is analysed, approved and executed in a timely fashion and deployed with automation to the greatest overall effect.
Featured products
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (US)
Automates data backup and restore functions, supports a broad range of platforms and storage devices, and centralises storage management operations.
- IBM System Storage Productivity Centre (SSPC) (US)
Helps provide extended device configuration capabilities for heterogeneous storage systems while also consolidating management to a centralised platform.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition (US)
Delivers an integrated data-protection solution for large enterprises, including large library support and disaster recovery functions.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack (US)
Next-generation data protection and near-instant recovery for business-critical Windows application servers in data centres, remote offices and small/medium-sized businesses.
- IBM TotalStorage Productivity Centre Standard Edition (US)
Combines the management of assets, capacity, performance and operations, which are traditionally offered by separate Storage Resource Management, SAN Management and Device Management applications, into a single platform.
- Complete list of Data Storage Management Solutions technology products (US)
