Reversing the Requirement for Storage Growth — IBM Consolidates and Simplifies Tier-2 Storage

Technology and innovation have come to the rescue of the enterprise data center where virtually uncontrolled growth in storage requirements have forced the IT staff to supersize every storage array throughout the enterprise, centralized or distributed, in order to be able to handle the needs of the information generation. The data center needs to be rescued. With increased costs for energy, and a limited amount available, the IT budget is being stretched to the limit in order to power and cool a data center containing storage arrays in every available nook and cranny. Floor space is another factor, as the IT staff tries to meet capacity requirements within the confines of an already bulging data center, staving off the impending doom, and millions of dollars in capital investment, for a new data center. The IT staff is always looking for ways to minimize space and power, while at the same time, striving to satisfy performance and capacity requirements.

IBM recognizes the need to not only consolidate data center storage, but also to reduce the amount of array capacity required to store multiple copies of business-critical information, both unstructured and transactional. Read this article for information on how data center storage issues can be addressed using innovations such as data deduplication.

Vendor:: IBM
Posted:: Feb 8, 2021
Published:: Feb 25, 2009
Format:: PDF
Type:: Technical Article

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