Managing the Tidal Wave of Data Tivoli Storage Management

White paperJune 2009
Managing the tidal wave of data with
IBM Tivoli storage management
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Executive summaryContents With ever-increasing data growth worldwide, organizations must ?nd smarterways to store and manage their massive volumes of data. IBM Tivoli® storage2 Executive summary2 The costs of managing management software solutions provide you with exceptional value andunabated data growth functionality to maximize your current storage environment and reduce3 Managing smarter with operational and capital costs while improving service and managing risks.IBM Tivoli storage Flagship products such as IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, IBM Tivolimanagement solutions and Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack, and IBM Systema dynamic infrastructure StorageT SAN Volume Controller can help you build a dynamic storage4 Reducing costs, improvingservice, and managing infrastructure that scales to meet your evolving business requirements.risks5 Deploying a dynamic The costs of managing unabated data growthstorage infrastructure Despite the slowing economy, unabated data growth continues due to the6 Components of a dynamicstorage infrastructure digitization of infrastructures worldwide, the need to keep more copies of data7 Uni?ed recovery for longer periods, and the rapid increase in distributed data sources. Thismanagement with data growth translates into a wide range of increasing management challenges.IBM Tivoli Storage At the same time, organizations are being required to adhere to higher serviceManager and FastBack level agreements, including higher availability and zero data loss9 Storage resource requirements. Many also face the challenges of integrating disparate systemsmanagement withIBM Tivoli Storage and processes due to ongoing mergers and acquisitions.Productivity Center Naturally, today's organizations are looking for ways to manage this tidal10 Storage virtualization withIBM System Storage SAN wave of data while adhering to ?at or shrinking budgets. In the past,Volume Controller companies have continued to buy more storage disks as needed to manage11 For more information their increasing data. This method of keeping up with data has worked, to a11 About Tivoli software degree, because disk capacity has doubled approximately every 18 months,from IBM keeping pace with data accumulation. Costs for storage have come down,making storage equipment acquisitions relatively affordable.Managing the tidal wave of data with IBM Tivoli storage management solutionsPage 3
However, organizations are now beginning to have difficulties managing allHighlights of the storage in their environments-the costs of backup and recovery,archiving, expiration, and storage resource management are exploding. AlsoToday's organizations are looking on the rise are the costs to power and cool these devices, which are taking upfor ways to manage a tidal wave of more and more space on the data center ?oor. data while adhering to ?at orshrinking budgets. Managing smarter with IBM Tivoli storage management solutions and adynamic infrastructureIBM Tivoli storage management solutions offer smarter data and storagemanagement to help you better utilize your current storage environment.These solutions can help your IT organization build and manage a dynamicinfrastructure that provides the capabilities and agility to facilitate servicemanagement, asset management, data protection and retention, virtualization,energy efficiency, business resiliency, and security.
The service management element of the dynamic infrastructure isGaining visibility, control and particularly relevant to the storage environment in that it can help you gainautomation are keys to building a visibility, control, and automation. Increased visibility enables you to see yourmore dynamic storage business services and processes. Your organization can bene?t by being ableinfrastructure. to respond faster and to make better, more informed decisions. Improvedcontrol enables you to better manage risk and compliance initiatives, optimizeresources, and integrate processes. Automation can help you lower costs andbuild agility into your operations so that you can maximize productivity,reduce labor expenses, and improve quality.
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