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IBM System Storage Products

IBM solutions are optimized for the unique needs of midsize organizations, large enterprises, cloud computing providers, and others. Clients can get just what they need, saving time and money. A key benefit of selecting IBM for your next information infrastructure project is access to a broad portfolio of outstanding products and services. IBM offers highly rated, patented technology that delivers unique value.

Some IBM differentiating capabilities include:

• Real-time Compression—Keep up to five times more network-attached storage (NAS) production information online
• Storage virtualization—Reduce storage area network (SAN) disk costs by significantly increasing utilization
• Data deduplication—Lower storage acquisition costs dramatically while reducing energy, cooling, floor space, management requirements, and maintenance costs
• Solid-state storage architectures—Improve drive access response time without application tuning
• Next-generation scalable storage—Achieve Tier 1 functionality at Tier 2 costs
• Mainframe storage—Optimize mainframe applications with unrivaled support for System z performance, scalability, security and high availability features
• Self-encrypting storage and security management— Encryption at the drive level improves security with little or no performance impact
• Information archiving—Optimize application performance and simplify application administration, while lowering total costs
• Business intelligence platform integration—Correlate disparate information faster across the value chain
• Continuous data protection—Get applications and users up and running within minutes following a data loss
• Storage infrastructure management—Improve storage utilization and simplify administration

No other major vendor can match IBM’s breadth of information infrastructure capabilities. IBM offers integrated solutions for consolidation, data protection, storage management simplification, compliance support, and more. IBM technology includes SAN and network attached storage (NAS) disk systems, tape systems, SAN switches, storage management software, services, self-encrypting storage with key management, nonerasable, nonrewriteable storag for regulatory compliance, and flexible financing for large and midsize organizations.