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IBM releases solutions to rein data overflow

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Taking off from the global concern of skyrocketing data volumes, the perennial lack of physical storage spaces and being sensitive about carbon footprints, IBM today released an array of about 40 solutions, aimed at tackling this data overflow using technologies, which are ‘disruptive’ in nature.

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The flagship offering in today’s announcement was the IBM XIV system – a highly scalable disk storage system optimized to handle content from Web 2.0 applications to traditional applications such as financial services.

This new enterprise disk offering features a unique grid-based architecture that offers easier management, greater performance scalability, self-tuning/healing and thin provisioning to help reduce the cost and complexity of information storage while enabling consistently quick access of data for today’s dynamic range of workloads.

“As India goes through a radical shift away from the decades-old client/server model to a radically more efficient Internet-style architecture, we have taken a giant leap to address foreseen customer challenges with the new information infrastructure launch,” said Shashi B Mal, Director, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India/ South Asia.

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"There is no bigger opportunity for our clients than to unlock the value they have in their data centers and help them create smart, innovative offerings for their end users – the consumer,” he added.

For enterprises that want to move towards consolidation and virtualization, the offerings combine Cloud computing capabilities with secure, compliant and efficient hardware, with availability, compliance and retention, and security pain points being the underlying philosophies which the new breed of IBM products are based on.

The IBM SVC is one such example. Positioned as a new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, higher energy efficiency levels and robust networking capabilities are integrated well.

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The DS5000, on the other hand is designed to meet demanding mid-range data center requirements, and is a new disk storage system which can add interfaces, increase performance, grow capacity as Internet scale demands, in the event of scaling up.

According to Shailesh Agarwal, vice-president (Business Systems) Systems and Technology Group – IBM India/South Asia, “Infrastructures need to adapt to meet this demand, and in response, IBM today is delivering critical elements for an information infrastructure as part of its New Enterprise Data Center strategy.”

He said more than 30 new and upgraded products and services are being introduced across the IBM portfolio to meet these critical needs.

“These tools and technology resources which IBM has been developing and amassing, open doors to new industry collaborations, and on demand storage technologies – a key pillar in the emergence of cloud computing,” he added.

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