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IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

Building a storage area network

Your company thrives on data, and e-business is creating a storage explosion. The volume of data you must make available continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. Your LAN has reached its limit. So how do you manage your data growth, maintain high availability, and keep your administration costs in check? Build a storage area network.

It sounds simple enough but with hosts from one vendor, storage devices from another, multiple operating systems, different file systems and a myriad of access methods, managing this network can be incredibly complex. That's where IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric comes into play.

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric monitors and manages your heterogeneous SAN

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric is a comprehensive solution that discovers, monitors, and manages your heterogeneous SAN. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric is architected to ANSI SAN standards, allowing you to choose the best products for your storage infrastructure without tying you down to one provider.

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric gives your storage administrator an easier way to navigate to the appropriate management tools, and provides error detection and predictive fault and failure analysis to help find and predict SAN network problems before they become severe or impact data and application availability. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric will help you:

• Reduce storage administration costs
• Reduce administrative workloads
• Maintain high availability