IBM Global Technology Services has invested in a set of asset-based services to help clients more effectively manage their information and supporting infrastructures - ensuring return on investment and lowering the total cost of ownership of an (IOD) solution. IBM Global Technology Services is announcing new monitoring, management and tools that quickly assist in problem resolution along with highly specialized IOD Infrastructure global resources. To help clients effectively govern and support information compliance requirements, GTS is also introducing new assessment and strategy services. These services help clients create information retention and archiving strategies with an information management governance roadmap based on their unique business challenges and needs.
The Global Technology Services include:
Information Lifecycle Management - New
In today's world of increasingly complex business regulatory compliance requirements and growing storage services market, your business faces ongoing challenges about how to efficiently store and retain your electronic information. IBM Information Lifecycle Management Services - Enterprise Archive service assesses your existing architecture and helps design a comprehensive information archiving solution aligned with your business goals and performance needs. By helping to assess, plan and implement a more flexible and secure information archive infrastructure, your organization is positioned to more quickly and cost effectively adapt to changing regulatory requirements while gaining improved service levels.
Remote Manged Infrastructure Services - New
With ever increasing demands on your IT staff, you often lack the time to carefully plan the growth of your Information On Demand infrastructure. The end result can be a cumbersome environment that is difficult to manage. IBM Remote managed infrastructure provides a flexible, affordable suite of services to help you administer and manage your data base environments more efficiently and cost-effectively, either onsite or from an IBM facility. Choose from three customizable service levels that allow you to pay for only the services you need — with no transformation of your existing multivendor environment required.
Information On Demand Infrastructure Community of Practice
Established to build exchange and enable reuse of Information on Demand knowledge and assets, it helps develop new capabilities and share leading-edge thinking across IBM’s software, business consulting, systems and Research organizations. These new IBM services help clients plan, design and deploy a resilient infrastructure to deliver Information on Demand, while reducing risk and providing higher returns on IT investments.
Information On Demand Infrastructure Implementation services
A combination of best practices and methodologies to quickly and cost-effectively deploy a highly-available, reliable dynamic data warehouse, including all of the relevant components. These services allow clients to make better informed decisions with less risk, while providing a faster path to a return on their investment.
Storage Optimization and Integration services
Enable the design, deployment and operation of an efficient storage and data infrastructure. These services help to better integrate existing storage environments and improve utilization and management. This includes methodologies and software to enable organizations to better understand their storage environments through an enterprise-wide assessment with reporting on storage utilization, costs, and legal and IT compliance to help customers achieve operational efficiency. These services include the portfolio of assets and services from IBM’s recent acquisition of NovusCG, market leading provider of storage optimization, storage resource management, and process services on all major storage platforms.
Data Mobility services
Help clients establish a simple and unified approach to managing and moving data on-line — over any distance, regardless of server platform or storage vendor. These services reduce operational risk without impacting performance. These services include data mobility software assets from IBM’s recent acquisition of Softek – the market leader in data mobility software.
Infrastructure Services for Compliance Warehouse
Provide assistance with infrastructure consulting, design, and implementation for information and enterprise content management, and archiving activities. The services, provided by IBM Global Business Services and GTS, are created to enable enterprise wide enablement of structured and unstructured information flow, access, and control for compliance, litigation, and business needs including long term preservation. The services include gathering of retention requirements, information classification, policy and governance definition and enforcement.
