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Flexible, scalable storage solutions designed to take your business the distance in the on demand world

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server

IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Library 3582

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592

IBM TotalStorage SAN Integration Server

demand the mostDemand the most from your storage provider

Your business faces unrelenting pressure to do more with

less, improve results and deal with IT complexity—all with

tighter budgets than ever before. In addition, the amount of

data that the typical organization manages is increasing

rapidly, which presents additional business challenges.

Make no mistake about it—there is a strong correlation

between your storage environment and the performance

of your business. The IT solutions that you have now and

might deploy in the future will most likely be storage-

intensive, which could result in the growth and complexity

of your storage environment. And that’s where IBM can

help. IBM is an industry leader in innovative storage solu-

tions that can help simplify IT environments so CIOs and

IT managers can focus on other tasks, including:

• Increasing efficiency and utilization

• Managing costs

• Improving reliability

• Competing more effectively

IBM and IBM Business Partners deliver resilient, modular,

scalable hardware and software storage solutions along

with worldwide services and support that allow you to

demand the most from your storage provider.

Leverage IBM technology

IBM can help you manage costs and compete more

effectively with a more-efficient storage infrastructure.

That’s because IBM storage products feature open

standards for easy integration into your infrastructure and

compatibility with solutions from IBM and many other

vendors. IBM can help you to deploy and maintain your

storage infrastructures, providing solutions designed for

high availability while enhancing productivity through

automation.

demand the mostIBM TotalStorage® and IBM Tivoli® solutions can help address some of your business issues and help you to:

In short, IBM is a world leader in storage technology, services and support that can help you build a competitive

edge. IBM is continually delivering new technologies to help improve the way that you acquire and manage your

storage infrastructure. We can help you to improve your business’s efficiency and continuity.

Lower or manage costs

Regardless of your company’s size, IBM can

help simplify your storage infrastructure and help

automate, consolidate and centralize your storage

efforts. Autonomic solutions—solutions that are

self-managing and self-healing— are designed to

help reduce the amount of personnel effort it takes

to manage your systems, helping to lower costs

and provide more reliability.

Reduce complexity

Storage has gotten so complex and unwieldy that

simplifying it is critical to business success. IBM

storage products are designed to help reduce

complexity, and many of them offer a single point of

control for disparate storage components. This can

help improve storage utilization.

Manage your infrastructure and growth

IBM storage virtualization, combined with IBM Tivoli

software management solutions, can help you man-

age storage across your entire enterprise and get the

most out of your IT infrastructure.

Cut or eliminate planned and unplanned

downtime

IBM offers storage products that can allow adminis-

trators to reallocate and scale storage capacity and

upgrade hardware and software without disrupting

applications. These products are designed to help

you improve application availability by reducing or

eliminating application downtime for storage and

data management tasks.

Take advantage of highly accessible

support teams

IBM has a worldwide team of local experts through

IBM Global Services (IGS) and IBM Business Part-

ners. They can work with you on issues including

consulting, design and integration, storage consoli-

dation, data migration, testing and implementation,

performance management, maintenance, and

storage management. Additionally, there are more

than 150 IBM TotalStorage Solution Centers (TSSCs)

around the world where you can take advantage of

“one-stop shopping” for storage hardware, software

and consulting services.

the right solution

Choose one company for the answers you need

Let’s face it: there is not a “one-size-fits-all” solution for

your storage environment. The performance and avail-

ability of your storage environment can either enhance

or hamper your business processes. That’s where IBM

comes in. We can handle the challenges that your net-

work or company as a whole encounters. What’s the IBM

advantage? You get industry-leading storage products,

technologies, services and solutions without the com-

plexity of dealing with different hardware and software

vendors and system integrators. Do you have other

vendors’ products installed? No problem. Many of IBM’s

solutions employ open standards and can integrate with

many other vendors’ offerings. IGS and IBM Business

Partners can bring the entire spectrum of skills, from con-

sulting through implementation and operations, to help

you develop a solution tailored to your unique business

demands and budget. These services, coupled with a

broad portfolio of skills and experience, can help make

your ownership experience complete.

Gain an edge — become on demand ready

IBM defines an on demand business as “an enterprise

whose business processes—integrated end-to-end

across the company and with key partners, suppliers and

customers—can respond with speed to any customer

demand, market opportunity or external threat.”

Becoming an on demand business is about finding new

ways to grow, adapt and respond in a dynamic business

environment while managing costs. Because data is a crit-

ical component of businesses today, efficiently handling

the growing amounts of information is one of the keys to

success for an on demand business. The storage envi-

ronment is an important part of the IT infrastructure to help

achieve the goal of operating as an on demand business.

The evolution to on demand computing for storage

typically occurs in four areas:

Consolidation. Concentrating systems and resources

into locations with fewer but more-powerful servers and

storage pools can help increase IT efficiency. Data and

application integration can help simplify systems man-

agement and improve security. And centralized storage

management tools can mean better scalability, higher

availability and improved disaster tolerance.

Virtualization. Storage virtualization helps you to make

complexity transparent and can offer you a composite

view of your storage assets to help you get the most out

of your resources. This may help reduce capital and

administrative costs, while giving users better service and

availability. Virtualization is designed to help make your IT

infrastructure more responsive, scalable and available.

Automation. Choosing storage components with auto-

nomic capabilities can help keep costs down while

improving availability and responsiveness—and help

protect your data as your storage needs grow. As soon as

day-to-day tasks are automated, storage administrators

may be able to spend more time on critical, higher-level

tasks unique to a company’s business mission.

Integration. An effective on demand storage environment

should facilitate data integration while freeing personnel

resources to work on this integration. When all servers

have secure access to all data, your infrastructure should

be able to respond better to your users’ information needs.

the right solutionSelect the right solution from diverse offerings

Regardless of your business size or what your current storage infrastructure looks like, IBM can provide a solution to help

address your unique storage requirements today—and well into the future. Solutions range from affordable, stand-alone

tape drives to others designed for e-business on demand™ and applications with unpredictable growth requirements.

Storage software

Storage virtualization

• IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller

• IBM TotalStorage SAN File System

Storage management

• IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

• IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager and

IBM Tivoli Bonus Pack for SAN management

• IBM Tivoli Storage Area Management Toolkit

• DFSMS

• DFSORT™

Tape storage

Tape libraries and autoloaders

• IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Servers

• IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Library 3494

• IBM TotalStorage Ultrascalable Tape Library 3584

• IBM TotalStorage Ultrium® Scalable Tape Library 3583

• IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Library 3582

• IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Autoloader 3581

Tape drives

• IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592

• IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3590

• IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Drive 3580

• IBM 7208 External Tape Drive




Tape management

• IBM TotalStorage ETL Expert

• IBM TotalStorage Ultrascalable Library Specialist

Disk storage

Disk systems

• IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server®

• IBM TotalStorage SAN Integration Server

• IBM TotalStorage FAStT Storage Servers

• IBM TotalStorage 7133 Serial Disk System

• IBM TotalStorage Expandable Plus 2104

Disk management

• IBM TotalStorage Expert

Storage area networking (SAN) and

network-attached storage (NAS)

SAN fabric switches and directors

• IBM TotalStorage SAN switch family

• Cisco MDS 9000 family

• McDATA Enterprise-to-Edge SAN solutions

• CNT FC/9000 directors

NAS

• IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 300

softwareIBM TotalStorage virtualization software

The IBM TotalStorage virtualization software products are designed to help reduce SAN complexity by providing a

single common pool of storage. This can help reduce costs and increase efficiency.

IBM storage management software

Today’s storage management needs go beyond traditional backup and recovery solutions. Data is the currency of today’s

e-business economy. Planning to store this data should encompass data reliability, solution scalability, disaster planning

and recovery considerations.

IBM DFSMS

is a software suite that automatically helps manage

data from creation to expiration. DFSMS is designed

to provide allocation control for availability and perfor-

mance, backup and recovery, and disaster-recovery

services. It is also designed to offer space manage-

ment, tape management, and reporting and simulation

for performance and configuration tuning.

IBM DFSORT

is a high-performance sort, merge, copy, analysis

and reporting product. DFSORT is an optional feature

of the IBM z/OS® and OS/390® operating systems.

IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller

is designed to help reduce the complexity and costs

of managing disparate storage controllers in a SAN

environment. It allows users to virtualize their storage

to help increase the utilization of existing capacity and

centralize the management of multiple storage control-

lers in an open-system SAN environment. The SAN

Volume Controller storage software can be delivered

as an appliance within the SAN Volume Controller, as

part of the SAN Integration Server or embedded within

the Caching Services Module of the Cisco MDS 9000

Switch.

IBM TotalStorage SAN File System

(based on IBM Storage Tank™ technology)

is designed as a network-based heterogeneous file

system for file aggregation and data sharing in an open

environment. The SAN File System can help lower the

cost of storage management and enhance productivity

by providing centralized file system management, higher

storage utilization and improved application availability.

IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager

serves as an active, intelligent console for the storage

environment. It is designed to provide a set of policy-

driven, automated tools for managing storage capacity,

availability, events, performance and assets in the

enterprise environment, including direct-attached

storage (DAS), NAS and SAN technologies. Tivoli

Storage Resource Manager provides up to 300 com-

prehensive reports, monitoring and alerts, policy-based

management, database support, chargeback, and

more. IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager is designed

to be installed quickly and can help improve storage

utilization, reduce storage costs, manage more data

with the same staff and support application availability.

IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manger and

IBM Tivoli Bonus Pack for SAN Management

are state-of-the-art solutions for managing heteroge-

neous enterprise SANs. They are designed to work with

a broad range of devices so that your enterprise can

leverage and better use its existing technology invest-

ments. They are designed to provide comprehensive

management of the physical and logical configurations

for multivendor SANs with automatic resource discov-

ery, event monitoring and alerting, zone control, and

SAN error-prediction capabilities.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

can help protect your organization’s data from hardware

failures and other errors by storing backup and archive

copies of data in offline storage. Scalable so that it

can help protect hundreds of computers and running

on more than a dozen different operating systems, its

intelligent data move-and-store techniques and policy-

based automation work together to help increase data

protection and potentially decrease time and adminis-

tration costs.

disk storageIBM TotalStorage disk storage systems

Disk is still one of the fastest and most-economical storage mediums available for interactive production databases. High-

performance IBM TotalStorage disk solutions are also among the most reliable, scalable and interoperable in the industry.



helps deliver the superior performance and high-

availability functions required for your critical business

applications across multiple platforms, including the

IBM ̂ ® zSeries® and IBM S/390® servers. It

also supports many advanced copy functions, which

can be critical for increasing data availability during

planned outages and for protecting data from planned

and unplanned outages. These advanced functions are

designed to provide important disaster-recovery and

backup protection.

IBM TotalStorage SAN Integration Server

is designed to help integrate IBM virtualization technol-

ogy, fibre-channel switches and storage Redundant

Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technologies pro-

vided by FAStT Storage Servers into a preconfigured,

comprehensive solution. Delivered and installed as a

single system, it features hardware redundancy and

elements of IBM advanced autonomic computing

technologies to help minimize downtime and improve

availability.

disk storageIBM TotalStorage FAStT Storage Servers

can help handle the growing storage requirements

of today’s on demand era. The IBM FAStT family uses

common storage management software and high-

performance hardware design, helping to provide

customers with enterprise-like capabilities at a lower

cost. High-availability, multiplatform support, a broad

range of open operating system support and com-

prehensive management tools all help you adjust to

changing storage requirements and challenges.

7133 Serial Disk System

is well-suited for fast-growing UNIX® server environ-

ments requiring high availability and performance

requirements. With Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)

dual data paths to disks, redundant power and cool-

ing, host bypass features, and the ability to connect to

multiple servers, the 7133 is well-suited for multihost

attachments to IBM ̂ pSeries® and RS/6000®

servers.

IBM TotalStorage Expandable Storage Plus

is well-suited for small- and medium-scale IBM AIX®

environments requiring the latest Small Computer

System Interface (SCSI) Ultra 320 technology. It is

designed to handle either dual-host attachment with

a single SCSI bus for nonconcurrent, high-availability

configurations with High Availability Cluster Multi-

processing (HACMP) failover software, or dual-host

attachment with two SCSI buses. The 2104 is well-

suited for multihost attachments to IBM ̂

pSeries and RS/6000 servers.

IBM TotalStorage FAStT 700 in rack

tape storageIBM TotalStorage tape storage systems

When it comes to storage retention, nobody goes to greater lengths to help you store, archive and retrieve your data than

IBM with a complete line of tape products.

Tape libraries and autoloaders

IBM TotalStorage Ultrascalable Tape Library 3584

is an excellent choice for cost-effectively handling a

wide range of backup, archive and disaster-recovery

data storage needs. The reliability, capacity and perfor-

mance of LTO offers an excellent alternative to digital

linear tape (DLT), 8-mm, 4-mm or 1⁄4-inch tape drives for

streaming data applications such as backup.

IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server (VTS)

is designed to virtualize tape and utilize the full capac-

ity of cartridges to help provide excellent performance,

reduce tape processing costs, and reduce the floor

space and environmental requirements. A fully redun-

dant peer-to-peer VTS configuration installed in two

separate sites can help facilitate the resumption of

normal operations after a system failure, or a natural or

man-made disaster.

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Library 3494

is an excellent solution for large datacenters that

include IBM ̂ and open-system platforms. It

features a modular design that can be configured to

help meet customer requirements, attach to supported

servers and help support business continuance. The

3494 tape library supports the VTS and is designed to

scale to help meet future storage requirements. It also

provides high availability and support for future tape

technologies.

IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Scalable

Tape Library 3583

is designed as a high-performance, reliable, scalable

tape subsystem for tape automation. The 3583 features

the patented IBM Multi-Path architecture, designed

to allow you to define multiple logical libraries within

a single physical library and allowing heterogeneous

applications to simultaneously share a single physical

library. Control-path failover adds additional autonomic

capability.

tape storageIBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Library 3582

is extremely compact with its 4U height, yet holds

up to 24 LTO cartridges and one or two drives. This

library supports up to two heterogeneous servers

sharing it simultaneously without any additional hard-

ware or software. A bar-code reader is standard as is

a single-cartridge input/output door. An optional Web

interface allows users to monitor the library status with

a Web browser. The 3582 is superb for addressing

the growing storage requirements of small to medium-

sized businesses.

IBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Autoloader 3581

is an external stand-alone or rack-mounted drive,

using a single IBM LTO Ultrium tape drive. It is a good

choice for customers who use tape and require a larger-

capacity or higher-performance tape backup—with

or without random access—than is provided by their

current tape system. If bar-code label scanning is

required, an optional barcode-reader can be added to

one of the existing cartridge slots. This is designed to

provide automated storage management software the

ability to select the required cartridge.

IBM TotalStorage LTO Family of storage products

storage networkingIBM TotalStorage Ultrium Tape Drive 3580

provides convenience for existing Linear Tape Open

(LTO) tape cartridge users or users who typically store

less than 200 GB of data on a single tape cartridge.

This self-contained single drive can be rack-mounted or

simply sit on the desktop, and is an excellent alternative

to S-DLT, DLT, 1⁄4-inch, 4-mm or 8-mm tapes drives.

Complementary tape storage product

offerings, the 7205 (SDLT format), 7206 (VXA-2 format),

7207 (SLR formats) and 7208 (8-mm format), help you

protect, access and manage mission-critical data—

regardless of the size of your organization.

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592

is designed to provide fast performance and high

capacity to help reduce customer resource require-

ments in heterogeneous server environments. The 3592

is designed to provide both fast access to data and the

high capacity necessary to back up large databases,

thus allowing the adoption of a single tape technology.

This can help reduce costs and allow data to be con-

solidated onto fewer footprints, which, in turn, can help

reduce the complexity of the storage environment and

management overhead.

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590

offers configuration flexibility with models for large,

scalable automation solutions to small auto car-

tridge loaders. The 3590 is designed to provide high

performance for backup window management and

productivity. It supports enhanced tape sharing

with cross-enterprise attachment and flexible imple-

mentation with support for multiple attachments.

The 3590 supports data integrity and reliability for

mission-critical data. IBM 7206 External Tape Drive

Tape drives

storage networkingIBM storage networking

These solutions are the backbone of any complete storage solution. They facilitate connectivity to scalable, reliable

storage for businesses of all types and sizes.

SAN

solutions provide the necessary infrastructure to help

you keep your enterprise nimble and agile enough to

address the constant flux, high pressure and rapidly

changing scenarios of an on demand business. IBM

offers a wide variety of SAN infrastructure products from

our SAN Fabric vendors—Brocade (IBM TotalStorage

SAN switches), Cisco, CNT and McDATA. These prod-

ucts provide the connection of servers and storage

devices into high-availability storage networks, sup-

porting scalability to address the demands of rapid

and unpredictable growth.

IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 300

IBM NAS Gateway

is designed to bring NAS capabilities to IBM disk stor-

age products like the IBM TotalStorage FAStT family and

the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server. The

IBM NAS Gateway allows users to converge their NAS

and SAN environments, giving them greater flexibility to

provide storage resources to applications as needed.

These gateways are designed for high-availability and

high file-transfer performance.

tap into the power

Tap into the power

A worldwide network of top-notch sales and technical

support services backs every IBM storage product. IBM

offers local, focused support capabilities to help expedite

system development at all stages, from conception to

warranty repair. In addition to customer support, qualifica-

tion and integration assistance, IBM offers a wide range of

financing options and education and consulting services

designed to provide complete data storage solutions.

IBM works with IBM Business Partners and other leading

technology companies to deliver the right storage solu-

tions to help your business to succeed in today’s dynamic

marketplace. You also can visit an IBM TotalStorage

Solutions Center for a hands-on test drive of IBM storage

solutions. With IBM as your technology provider, you can

take full advantage of the new and emerging technologies

that can be critical to business success.

Start today

It’s an easy decision. Why keep searching for multiple ven-

dors to duplicate what a single, global end-to-end storage

solution provider can do for your organization? Insist on

exceptional storage solutions, products and services from

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IBM offers:

• A full menu of customizable, open IT storage solutions to

meet your specific business needs and budgets

• A broad portfolio of modular hardware and software

offerings

• Outstanding warranty support

• International service and support

• Flexible financing options

For more information

IBM and IBM Business Partners can offer clear guidance

and a broad portfolio of skills and products to help you

create an open, on demand business environment today.

Go to ibm.com/totalstorage or ibm.com/Tivoli to read

about our most-recent offerings.

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