Data Storage Solutions: Store the Right Data on the Right System

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Susan Blocher, of IBM, speaks about data management. Companies today face four main challenges with managing data. First is the exponential growth in data. Second is the change in the variation or the type of data, from structured to unstructured. Third is compliance and the cost of litigation and legal discovery. And fourth is the challenge of retaining and archiving all of that information. With a strong strategy in place, companies can address these issues and manage data smarter.

There are really four challenges around managing data. First is the exponential growth in data. Second is the change in the variation or the type of data, from structured to unstructured. Third is compliance and the cost of litigation and legal discovery. And fourth is the challenge of retaining and archiving all of that information.

IBM defines archiving as taking information that is not used very often, but its still valuable to a company, and moving it to storage systems whose cost aligns with the value of that information.

IBM has a really strong strategy to help our clients address these issues. First of all, we can help do that initial information lifecycle and risk assessment to really understand how to optimize the investment that you make in retention and archiving of your data.

Second, we have innovative and leading technologies like IBM ProtecTIER and IBM Optim. IBM ProtecTIER is technology that can help you do data deduplication or reduce up to 25 terabytes of data to a single terabyte, dramatically increasing the ease with which you can manage that data. We have technologies like Optim that can help you archive enterprise application data and make that significantly easier to manage.

And third, we have all classes of storage systems, from low-cost, very green and energy-efficient tape systems to high-end enterprise-class storage disk systems that can help you put the right data on the right storage system

For companies that are struggling with the challenge and complexity of archiving information, weve announced the Information Archive solution. It is a solution that brings together both the hardware and the software into a single appliance that allows clients to more efficiently and cost-effectively manage and archive their information. In fact, it can help clients automate the compliance and retention policies that they struggle with manually today into the appliance to make it significantly easier for them to manage their data.

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• data storage solutions
• data growth
• data archiving
• deduplication
• data storage
• IBM Optim
• IBM
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