Joe Krotz

IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems

April 2016

The IBM Storage – Moving at the speed of your business

A Smarter Solution for a Smarter Planet

New era cloud environments and applications such as analytics, mobile and social are driving huge growth in data volumes, making data the new natural resource. But cost-effectively optimizing your current storage environments while at the same time exploiting new opportunities is straining storage budgets. The solution — IBM Spectrum Storage

The Smarter Software Storage Approach Introducing IBM Spectrum Storage Software Solutions with Cloud Integration

IBM Spectrum Control

(TPC and the management layer of VSC)

IBM Spectrum Protect

(Tivoli Storage Manager)

IBM Spectrum Virtualize

(SAN Volume Controller SVC)

IBM Spectrum Archive

(Linear Tape File System LTFS)

IBM Spectrum Accelerate

(Software from XIV System)

IBM Spectrum Scale

(Elastic Storage –GPFS)

• Simplifying and integrating storage management and data protection across traditional and new applications

• Delivering elastic scalability with high performance for analytics, big data, social and mobile

• Unifying silos to deliver data without borders with built-in hybrid cloud support

• Optimizing data economics with intelligent data tiering from Flash to tape and cloud

• Building on open architectures supporting industry standards including OpenStack and Hadoop

IBM Spectrum Products are IBM’s family of

Storage Management and Optimization

Software solutions that help accelerate,

optimize, virtualize and streamline your storage

environment

The Smarter Software Storage Approach Introducing IBM Spectrum Storage Software Solutions new software licensing!

The solution is IBM Spectrum Storage Suite

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite gives you unlimited access to all members of the IBM Spectrum Storage software family with licensing on a flat, per-TB basis to make pricing easy to understand and predictable as capacity grows.

Structured specifically to meet changing storage needs, the suite is ideal for organizations just starting out with software-defined storage as well as those with established infrastructures who need to expand their capabilities.

IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Spectrum Control

IBM Spectrum Archive IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM Spectrum Scale

IBM Spectrum Accelerate

An example of this premier model is simple!

Lets say you purchase 100Tb of licenses. You can use those licenses for any of these products!

As your needs change, you can carve up those licenses by mixing and matching them as long as it doesn’t exceed 100Tb total capacity. Add more capacity at any time as you grow!

Now compressing on almost all platforms regardless of vendor!

Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismicVirtual

ServersJPEG/ZIP

80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression Rate

Traditional

Storage

Average of65% Compression

Real-time Compression Efficient

Half the Data Storage

Real-time Compression, for active and inactive data

The Smarter Storage Approach The IBM Spectrum Integrated Solutions

The IBM Storwize Family

• Over 36,000 systems purchased

• Over 80,000 total enclosures deployed

• Over 1.6 exabytes of capacity

• Extraordinary reliability –Delivering 99.999% availability

Field proven, highly efficient and super reliable

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Spectrum Virtualize with Storwize

IBM is the world leader in Software Defined Storage Environments.

With the ability to virtualize over 400 different backend storage platforms as well as offer our own V5000 and V7000 platforms, IBM is the obvious choice for your storage and virtualization needs!

5x more data in the same space

3x performance with only 5% flash

47% less management effort

30-60% lower storage growth with RTC and Thin Provisioning!

Enabling clients to do more with less!

October 2010Midrange Storage Storwize V7000

October 2011File/Block StorageStorwize V7000 Unified

2011 2012 2013

November 2012Storwize V3700Flex System V7000

April 2012Real-time CompressionFCoE

July 2003 - 2010SAN Volume ControllerRemote Copy (async, sync)FlashCopy (incremental, cascaded, multi-target)Thin provisioningVolume MirroringSplit clusteriSCSI, VAAI, and more

2014

October 2013IP replicationIntegrated SANSlideMobile dashboardEnhanced Stretched ClusterStorwize V5000

June 2013Compression performanceEasy Tier and compressionCapacity and VM scalabilityGlobal Active Cloud Engine

October2014Storwize V7000 EncryptionDual RACE engine

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Spectrum Virtualize Continuing Delivery of Enhanced Capability and Value!

2010

June 2014Easy Tier 3Auto-rebalance Compression accelerationStorwize V7000 Gen. 2

May 2011ClusteringVMware APIs10Gb iSCSI

2015

December 2015Software Encryption for Data at RestComprestimator integrationSupport changesEnhanced VMWare integration

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Spectrum Virtualize with Storwize

Next generation IBM Storwize V5000!Multiply your possibilities!

V5010

SmallInternal VirtualizationThin ProvisioningData MigrationAdvanced GUIMulti Host supportVMware & MS IntegrationFlashCopy EasyTierRemote Mirror

Up to 264 Drives

MediumV5010 plus…Higher PerformanceEncryption

Up to 264 drives

LargeV5020 plus… Clustering (2)Higher scalabilityHigher PerformanceCompressionExt VirtualizaciónHyperSwap

Up to 1008 drives

V5020 V5030

More powerful hardware platform with new processor and additional cache

–2x performance of previous Storwize V5000–Up to 4x cache: 32GB or 64GB cache per system (64GB or 128GB with two-way clustered systems)–2x infrastructure speed: 12Gb SAS and 16 Gb FC

Improved scalability: Up to 20 expansion enclosures–Up to 504 SFF drives or 252 LFF drives per system–Up to 1008 SFF drives or 504 LFF drives per

clustered system–Including new 3.2Tb SSDs–Up to 1008 SFF drives or 504 LFF drives per

clustered system

How RTC works with SVC/Storwize

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The Smarter Storage Approach

Dual software compression software engines for SVC DH8–Take advantage of multi-core controller architecture–Make better use of compression accelerator hardware

Enable up to double amount of “half price storage” in a single system–Even greater efficiency than before–Delivers up to double IOPS for compressed workloads

Expected performance per SVC DH8 I/O Group–Up to 300K IOPS to compressed data–Ability to scale up and out by adding more I/O groups (up to four total)

Now with integrated Comprestimator CLI utility for estimating expected compression rates.With the identical compression algorithm that’s used on the compression cards, Comprestimator will give very accurate results of +/- 5%!

IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software Defined Storage Solutions

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software Defined Storage Solutions

Resilient Open and Accessible Virtualized

Works seamlessly with IBM SmartCloud Storage Access and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack for self-service provisioning.

99.999%5 9’s Availability with over 1.6

Exabytes of install base

3x better network utilization with native SanSlide integration

Supports OpenStack deployments with Easy Tier and

compression enabled

Users provision storage on demand in seconds, without administrator involvement

Virtualize files globally across various IBM and non-IBM disk

systems

Up to 128 processor cores and 512Gb of cache in an 8 node

cluster

Scalable

Scales up to 32PB of usable capacity without

disruption

IBM RTC can reduce your disk utilization by up to 80% and reduce

costs by up to half

Efficient

Built-in virtualization, thin provisioning

increases disk utilization by 30%

Embedded IBM EasyTier provides up to 3x

performance with only 5% flash storage usage

IBM is the World Leader in Software Defined Storage!

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM’s premier, fully-integrated, all-flash offering

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM’s premier, fully-integrated, all-flash offering

•New record in raw capacity shipped –over 160PB for the year, and over 70PB for 4Q. More than 160% YoY growth (2.6x)

•FlashSystem V9000 made up 25% of FlashSystem capacity shipped by 4Q 2015

•First customer installation with more than 100 FlashSystem units, amounting to over 5PBs of flash capacity

•Now have multiple PB+ customers, with more than 2100 unique customers in over 70 countries.

It just keeps growing!

Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped

IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped

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• IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million IOPS

• 40% greater capacity compared to previous generation

• IBM FlashCore technology, our secret sauce

Technical collaboration with Micron Technology – flash chips

• IBM enhanced flash technology

• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear Guarantee

Improved integration with VMware

‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI

Performance at-a-glance

IBM FlashSystem 900 and V9000The next generation in our lowest latency offering

Minimum latency

Write 90 µs

Read 155 µs

Maximum IOPS 4 KB

Read (100%, random) 1,100,000

Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000

Write (100%, random) 600,000

Maximum bandwidth 256 KB

Read (100%, sequential) 10 GB/s

Write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s

Module type 1.2 TB 2.9 TB 5.7 TB

Modules 4 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12

RAID 5 capacity 2.4 4.8 7.2 9.6 12 11.6 17.4 23.2 29.0 22.8 34.2 45.6 57.0

Raw Capacity 7.1 10.7 14.2 17.8 21.4 26.3 35.1 43.9 52.7 52.7 70.3 87.9 105.5

Introducing IBM’s premier all-flash offerings

• Application acceleration

• Icon-based navigation, informative graphics, and visualizations

• Industry award winning interface

• CLI output for administrative tasks

• Reduce complexity

• Improve efficiency and productivity

• Neighborhood Management

• 300 days of performance history

FlashSystem 900 Tier-0 solutionThe Smarter Storage Approach

FlashCore vs. the Competition

• Commodity SSDs

• Most likely using open source OS, open source SCSI layer, and off-the-shelf interfaces

• Many use software RAID which cripples RAID 5 performance

• Hard to add storage services without killing performance

• Most likely from marketing focused manufacturer

• IBM MicroLatency Module

• Hardware accelerated I/O (no software in the datapath)

• Two-dimensional flash RAID

• Advanced Flash Management

• IBM FlashSystems is engineering focused and driven

The CompetitionIBM FlashCore technology

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM FlashSystems with FlashCore Technologies

IBM FlashSystem 900 and V9000 are all-flash storage systems that are used to make applications and data centers faster and more efficient. IBM engineers FlashSystem 900 with a relentless focus on lowering latency for data accesses

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator

System features and integration

• Systems Management

• World class GUI engineered for ease of use, install and setup

• IBM Service Center call home and service automation

• Remote Power On

• Hot-swappable Flash Modules, Power Supplies, Batteries, Fans, Controllers w/ interface cards

Cloud-Scale Infrastructures

OLTP Databases

Virtual Infrastructures

Computational Applications

Analytical Apps/OLAP

HPC

Enterprise ready

• Hot-swappable Flash Modules, Power Supplies, Batteries, Fans, Controllers w/ interface cards

• Concurrent code load and concurrent maintenance

• Variable Stripe RAID which allows for NAND chip failures without Flash module failures

• V9000 virtualized for immediate cloud integration

• Native encryption at rest

Hardware Specs

Dimensions:

• 2U Chassis

Flash Technology:

• IBM Enhanced MLC

• RAID 5: up to 57 TB

Interfaces choices:

• 16Gb FC (4/8/16GB)

• 10Gb FCoE

• Infiniband (QDR

FC and IB)

Performance Projections - RAID 5

• 1.1M Read IOPs

• Read/Write 70/30% Split 800k IOPS

• 600K Write IOPs

• 10GB/sec Read sequential 100%

• 4.5GB/sec Write sequential 100%

Patented Variable Stripe RAID allows RAID stripe sizes to vary.

If one die fails in a ten-chip stripe, only the failed die is bypassed, and then data is restriped across the remaining nine chips.

… 16 Planes

10 Chips

FAIL

RAID Group

The Smarter Storage Approach Variable Stripe RAID (VSR)

Value of VSR• Unique Business Benefit:

Fewer Flash Module Replacements = Less maintenance touches while still preserving the life, protection, and performance of the Day-1 experience

• IBM Patented Technology:No other manufacturer provides the resiliency or reliability

Protection Within And Across

Flash Modules

No system rebuild needed!

IBM FlashSystem V9000

IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system

Announcement: February 19General availability: April 24

• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire infrastructures

• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency

• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to 456 TB usable (2.28 PB effective capacity) in only 34U

• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data Virtualization, Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression

• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

Scalable Performance Agile IntegrationEnduring Economics

Powered by IBM FlashCore™ Technology

The Smarter Storage Approach Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 1 storage

• Redefine Tier 1 performance for workloads with diverse I/O patterns

• Optimize your data tier with thin provisioning, snapshots, and real-time compression

Area Integration Value

Management vCenter plug-in • Storage visibility• Self-service provisioning with controlled

delegation

BusinessContinuity

SRA for SiteRecovery Manager

• Automated Storage and Host •Failover•Failover testing •Failback

Performance VAAI • Hardware accelerated VM copy/migration• Hardware accelerated VM initiation• Accelerate VMFS (no SCSI reservation)

Driving efficiency, performance, flexibility & scale in virtualized environments

FlashSystem + VMWare®: an ideal fitAgile Integration

Scalable Performance

AgileIntegration

EnduringEconomics

Health status, configuration, capacity and thin provisioning

Storage intensive operations

• Greater communication between vSphere and FlashSystem

• Ability of vSphere to monitor and directly manage FlashSystem allowing greater efficiencies

• Enables migration or offloading of specific host operations to storage, improving overall performance of virtual environment

Integration of VMware VASA and VAAI via IBM Storage Integrated Server

VAAI and vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

Integrated Systems are Integrated Infrastructure

• Server, storage, networking

• Integration value for customers is “easy, efficient, and versatile”

• Exceptional scale both up / out!

• All VersaStack platforms can virtualize up to 32Pb of external disk!

IBM Spectrum Virtualize brings critically needed

capabilities to VersaStack

VersaStack – The Importance of Storage

• Data protection – Metro Mirror and Global Mirror

• Snapshots – FlashCopy and FlashCopy Manager

• RtC – Reduces cost by storing more data in physical space

• Provisioning and management

• Migrate data to / from external storage

• Access existing data on external storage system

FlashSystem V9000Scale out to four pairs with 2 PB internal all flash capacity

Storwize V7000Scale out to four pair with 8 PB internal

Storwize V5000Scale out to two pairs with 4 PB internal

The IBM VersaStack Converged Solution

• Performance – High performance storage systems with the ability to optimize flash and scale performance and capacity

• Cost effective data storage with data reduction to optimize capacity usage

• Business Continuity in an Integrated System with HyperSwap between Storwize Platform

Extend IBM Spectrum Virtualize functions to existing

storage

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM XIV Storage Array

Tuning-free performance

• Grid design and automation with zero tuning

• 3-way mirror, five-nines design, self-healing, and rebuilds in < 1 hour spell piece of mind

Ease of use

• Easy migration and provisioning, and Hyper-Scale management in a GUI customers love

Having the right storage infrastructure matters; it is crucial to the survival and growth of enterprises and service providers, especially those laying foundations for cloud.

• Up to 15 Intel Xeon Processors

• Up to 180 logical• Up to 720 GB of cache• Up to Up to 12 TB of Flash

Cache• Up to 24 Fibre ports(8

Gbps)• Up to 12 iSCSI (10 Gbps

ports)

Hardware Specs

Easy-to-implement solutions

• Hosts, hypervisors, applications, and tools integrate smoothly and cost-efficiently

Winning TCO

• Cash in with low-cost per TB, ease of use, and environmental benefits

Security

• Secure your data with data at rest encryption.

• Tivoli Key Lifecycle manager

Mobility

• Scale data protection with IBM Hyper Scale Consistency and Mobility

• Coordinated concurrently-consistent snapshots over multiple XIV Systems

• Seamlessly move workloads between multiple XIV systems

Upgradability

• See up to a 60% increase in performance with the addition of SSDs to XIV at any time!

The XIV Benefits

XIV Module

UPSUPS UPS

XIV Module

XIV Module

XIV Module

Host

Host

FC

Inte

rconnect

iSCSI

Host

Data

Modules

Data

Modules

Interface

Modules

Interface

Modules

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM XIV Storage Array Hardware

Full Rack – 484TB (6TB Drives)

15 modules

90 cores (180 logical)

180 1Tb, 2Tb, 3Tb, 4Tb or 6TB SAS SED disks

Infiniband fabric

Up to 720GB memory

Up to 12TB L2 SSD cache

24 8GB FC ports

22 iSCSI ports

What’s new• IBM XIV delivers dramatic cost savings using inline

IBM Real-time Compression and without need for extra hardware

• Brings IBM Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) technology to XIV grid architecture to scale performance and simplify compression management

• Increases usable capacity per rack typically to one petabyte or more with RTC, greatly reducing effective cost per capacity

• Replicates compressed data faster and using less bandwidth, freeing up bandwidth for other uses

• Continuously displays predicted or actual compression ratios for all volumes

• Converts non-compressed volumes to compressed non-disruptively

How RTC works with XIV

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• RACE is embedded into the compute services

• Becomes an organic part of the XIV software stack

• Seamlessly integrates with existing system management design

• Indicates how much uncompressed data has been written to the volume

• All of XIV advanced functions are supported on compressed volumes working on compressed data

• Provides non-disruptive conversion between compressed and uncompressed volumes

The Smarter Storage Approach The IBM Spectrum Integrated Solutions

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM XIV Spectrum Accelerate

XIV Spectrum Accelerate Storage is … XIV SoftwareX86 server

X86 server

X86 server

+

3 to 15 Storage NodesClient provided!

Built with mature, proven, XIV software stack

• Adapted to run on client provided x86 server hardware

• Similar features and functions as an XIV integrated system

• Compatible with XIV system for management and replication

• Client installed

Complements XIV Integrated System

• Lower capacity and cost point solutions

• Rapid build-out of test and dev environments

• Lower cost DR targets

• Complete integration with XIV hardware

• and more…

Remote and branch offices

• HA storage for small environment

• Centralized management

• Scalable and modular building blocks utilizing commodity hardware

Bridge to the Hybrid Cloud

• Backup and recover to/from the cloud

• Easily adapt to changing environments

• Enable Cloud Service Providers to provide advanced XIV storage features

Use Cases

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM XIV Storage and Spectrum Accelerate

with Cloud Integration

Eliminates complexity associated with traditional arrays

• No need to have the workload self-describe storage needs to the cloud management layer

Great price-performance ratio

• Optimized for large drives, small footprint

• High performance over IP with 10GbE

Tight hypervisor integration (SCVMM, SRM, VAAI, vCenter)

Ultra-easy management

Designed for extreme high availability

Proven – more and more IBM and client clouds are built on XIV

Solutions with IBM SmartCloud and OpenStack

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM XIV Spectrum Accelerate

• Scales up to 3Pb plus 96Tb of Flash in 4 floor tiles!

• Up to 48 cores of processing power with up to 2Tb of cache!

• Tight integration with System z -3x System z database performance!

• Six 9’s Availability!• Fully encrypted

• Multiple Target Peer to Peer Remote Copy for zero disruption

• Multiple Incremental FlashCopy for additional data protection

• High Performance Flash Enclosure with 2X flash for hybrid systems

• Multi-thread Performance Accelerator enables 35% IOPS improvement

• Higher capacity, faster drives running 1.6TB flash & 600GB 15K rpm drives for even better EasyTier performance

• Improved GUI for easier management • Complete OpenStack support for cloud

implementations

IBM DS8880 with High Performance Flash Enclosure

IBM Spectrum Scale brings it all together!

Global Name Space

IBM Spectrum Scale replaces SAN-based file systems

Replaces NTFS, EXT4, JFS2 and other POSIX file systems

Used by over 200 of the top 500 supercomputers

No file transfers required between different OS

Can be used with everything from databases to video streaming

For x86, POWER andz System servers

Secure with Data-at-rest encryption

IBM Spectrum Scale replaces HDFS and NAS file storage

Full Hadoop interfaces for Map/Reduce analytics processing

No transfer or ingest required as the data is already there

Fully protected with Backup Software

File-level access support for NFS, CIFS, FTP, SCP and HTTPS

Supports Enterprise File Sync-and-Sharevia OwnCloud or Funambol

IBM Spectrum Scale offers Object access

Object-level access based on OpenStack Swift driver and Amazon S3 APIs

IBM Spectrum Scalesupports all media and integrates seamlessly with LTFS

Spans flash, disk and tape media with a file system view that

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Spectrum Scale Solutions

The Smarter Storage Approach

IBM is the World Leader in Software Defined Storage!

IBM Spectrum Scale

-Native: encryption is built into the “Advanced” product

--Complies with NIST SP and is FIPS140-2 certified

-Supports HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, EU and national data privacy law compliance

-Secure erase provides the ability to destroy arbitrarily large subsets of a file system

-No “digital shredding”, secure deletion is a crypto operation

-Spectrum Scale lets you mirror your data at a DR site

-If the primary site fails, data requests are automatically redirected to the secondary site

-Asynchronous updates accommodate unreliable networks

-IBM Spectrum Scale V4.1 snapshots can retain 256 Global snapshots and 256 Snapshots of each independent Fileset.

-SSDs or Flash placed directly in Client nodes

-Accelerates I/O up to 6x by reducing CPU wait time

-Spectrum Scale handles the flash cache automatically so data is transparently available to your application with very low latency

-Maximum number of files/file system 264 (9 quintillion) files per file system

-AFM makes global namespace truly global by automatically managing asynchronous synchronization of data

--Local cached data access performs much better than WAN accesslatencies are improved WAN link usage is reduced

-Simplified interface utilizing our award winning XIV GUI

-Single pane of glass through the with standard global namespace

-30% lower TCO with Flash-Optimizes storage tiers including flash, disk and tape

-Multiprotocol data via NFS v3/v4SMB 2/SMB 3.0 mandatory (4.2 supported) / CIFS for WinTel

-3,000 active connections per node / 20K max

-OpenStack Swift and S3 API support for object storage

Software defined means flexible! Run as a software solution on your own hardware, implement IBM’s Elastic Storage Server (ESS) or take advantage of IBM’s managed solution offerings via SoftLayer!

Security Recovery Scalability Ease of Use Optimized

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Tape and Backup Solutions

DFSMS

Linear Tape File System

Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager / ISKLM for z/OS®

Tivoli Storage Manager, Tape Sys Lib Manager

TS4500

TS3500

TS7740 andTS7720 Grid

IBM Tape and Virtual Tape solutions offer high capacity, high performance, reliability and security while helping to lower storage TCO via scalability, energy efficiency, footprint reduction and lowest cost per TB.

IBM invented the concept of magnetic tape storage back in 1952. Since then, IBM has delivered many innovations in tape storage and that innovation continues today.

TS1150, TS1140

TS3500 ShuttleComplex

Enterprise EnterpriseScale out

TS2900

TS3200

TS3100

Entry

LTO 4 thru 6 FHLTO 3 thru 6 HH TS3310

Middle Tier

TS7620 ProtecTIERDeduplication Appliance

Express

TS7650G ProtecTIERDeduplication

Gateway

ProtecTIER

Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

The Smarter Storage Approach The IBM Spectrum Integrated Solutions

IBM Spectrum Control data management and storage management solutions provide comprehensive monitoring, automation and analytics. They address the two most significant storage costs: physical capacity and storage administration. You can get important insights into cloud, virtualized and software defined storage environments.

IBM data management and storage management solutions can help to:

•Identify and categorize storage assets for file, block and object data•Generate departmental and application views of storage•Optimize data placement within the infrastructure•Identify unused and wasted storage space

Improve storage uptime and simplify support efforts with personalized assistance

Complex storage issues can cause downtime. And that can obstruct your business operations. How do you efficiently resolve these costly and high-impact problems?

Of course, your storage device service agreements with IBM enable you to access robust support to help resolve high-severity storage challenges. But without a technical advisor, your staff still needs to know how to access help and determine the issue.

With a technical advisor for storage from IBM, you can gain continued technical support for critical issues—as well as proactive advice for problem prevention.

• Improve uptime

Continued assistance from one specialist can resolve high-severity problems more quickly

• Enhance efficiency

Work with IBM to promote staff productivity through support protocols and critical-problem management techniques

• Avert problems

Your consultant can offer time-tested methods tohelp you prevent outagesand use IBM support moreeffectively

Scalable Performance

AgileIntegration

EnduringEconomics

IBM Technical Advisor for StorageNow included with FlashSystems!

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM Tape and Backup Solutions

Data Center and Point of Presence

New Data Centers in 2014

Network Point of Presence

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM SoftLayer Global Footprint

100,000+Servers

21,000Customers

20,000,000Active

Domains

•IPv4/IPv6 dual stack

•Global DNS

•Global DDOS Mitigation

•Global Internet Exchanges & Peering

www.ibm.com/systems/storage/

The Smarter Storage Approach IBM SoftLayer Architecture and Integration

Infrastructure solution with a common management interface and API across a unified architecture

Mix and match bare metal servers, virtual server instances, and hosted private clouds

Full integration with all IBM storage portfolio offerings

Full OpenStack, RESTful API, SmartCloud Storage and IBM Storage Integration Server integration

Seamless scaling for Cloud and large deployments. This include Public, Private and Hybrid solutions

Bare metal with your own stack

Dedicated virtualized environment

Shared virtual environment

Dedicated virtualized environment

Triple Network Architecture

Automation & Support

Delivers Outstanding Performance & Price

Flexibility to Deliver Dynamic/ Hybrid Capability

www.ibm.com/systems/storage/

For more information:Websites:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/

http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/

Product Pages:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/storwize/

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/xiv/

IBM RedBooks

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

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