One thing holds true in the modern storage environment—data fills all available space. And as organizations across all industries are adding daily to the mountains of customer data, financial records, e-mails, images and other electronic content, many are realizing that these heaps of data are actually driving every decision and process throughout the enterprise.

1. Simplifying storage lifecycle management
IBM tiered storage management helps
reduce costs and complexity
One thing holds true in the modern
storage environment—data fills all avail-
able space. And as organizations
across all industries are adding daily to
the mountains of customer data, finan-
cial records, e-mails, images and other
electronic content, many are realizing
that these heaps of data are actually
driving every decision and process
throughout the enterprise.
Not all data is created equal, however,
and deriving business value from infor-
mation dispersed over many different
sources means integrating, analyzing
and optimizing heterogeneous types
and sources of information throughout
its lifecycle. This type of Information
Highlights On Demand strategy can help compa-
nies create new business insight and
■ Deployed together in the same ■ IBM storage software provides manage risk—key advantages for busi-
environment, IBM TotalStorage® powerful capabilities to manage nesses faced with increased regulatory
Productivity Center, IBM System information through its lifecycle and global competitive pressures.
Storage™ SAN Volume Controller
and IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager ■ Customers can align data value
deliver the core technologies with storage costs and required
needed to help customers tier service levels
their storage based on classes of
service ■ Centralized storage can help
improve resource planning and
utilization

2. products, the IBM tiered storage solu-
tion made up of IBM TotalStorage
Productivity Center, IBM System
Storage SAN Volume Controller and
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager deployed
together creates an architecture for
managing data growth and introduces
highly automated practices. This helps
lower manual intervention costs and
reduces risks.
By classifying and segmenting data into
a multi-tiered structure, companies can
create services and service level poli-
cies that support each tier and leverage
IBM storage software to not only struc-
ture the tiers but also do operational
management once the tiers are estab-
Yet many companies are overwhelmed Increasingly, customers want to organ- lished. This involves three stages:
by the explosion of data growth and ize their storage environment into tiers
lack storage management strategies of storage based on the value of the Stage 1—Classify and rationalize
and disciplines to ensure effective disk data. data
utilization. Many are uncertain about
what should be kept or deleted, result- IBM tiered storage aligns data value Stage 2—Establish storage tiers
ing in unnecessary expense, access and storage cost in a three stage
delays and high retrieval costs. And process Stage 3—Determine policies to
with many experts predicting exponen- To help companies meet this challenge, manage data
tial data growth rates, efficiently manag- IBM has designed information lifecycle
ing and protecting information assets management solutions for the process To help you through each stage of this
continue to be huge challenges for of managing information—from creation process, IBM provides powerful, proven
IT departments. And, managing storage to disposal—in a manner that aligns tools that fully integrate to simplify your
service levels is a growing requirement cost with the changing value of infor- architecture and effectively consolidate
that will require better organization of mation. As part of this portfolio of resources.
the storage to reflect different service
level requirements.

3. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center This helps you align ownership and resource utilization because the single
jumpstarts data classification in access authorization in accordance with pool of data can be managed from a
Stage 1 security policies, then determine the central point with only one interface to
For the first stage of the tiered storage business value and service level of spe- learn.
approach, IBM TotalStorage cific data so it can be placed appropri-
Productivity Center provides a single ately and moved if the status later IBM System Storage SAN Volume
management platform to manage per- changes. Controller is designed to be quick to
formance, availability and capacity of implement and supports a phased
your storage infrastructure. TotalStorage IBM System Storage SAN Volume implementation starting with a small
Productivity Center offers centralized Controller simplifies tiered storage in pilot.
management from a single console, Stage 2
which allows you to monitor, plan, con- IBM System Storage SAN Volume IBM Tivoli Storage Manager data
figure, troubleshoot and report on the Controller can help simplify storage protection in Stage 3
storage environment. infrastructure through virtualization of As you move to the third stage of the
both IBM and non-IBM products and migration to a tiered storage environ-
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center establish storage tiers that can be pro- ment, Tivoli Storage Manager allows
can help centralize the management of visioned to applications and users as you to logically pool capacity based on
each tier, measure capacity growth and needed. Because tiered storage infra- your criteria. A set of policies specifies
monitor service levels. Working with structures commonly include different how and when files should be automat-
IBM System Storage SAN Volume types of storage, often from different ically moved among storage pools dur-
Controller, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager vendors, this ability is crucial to organiz- ing their lifetime and, optionally,
and IBM Tivoli Storage Process ing the environment. Provisioning virtu- specifies when files should be deleted.
Manager, Productivity Center also can alized tiers of storage can help These policies can be based on file
help automate operational management companies match data storage require- size, on the amount of time since the
tasks and provide important information ments and costs with existing invest- file was last accessed and on which
about the storage capacity and storage ments in SAN fabric. pool contains the file, enabling you to
infrastructure to other management treat storage pools differently according
tools customers use. By combining the capacity of multiple to your needs. All of this feature-rich
disk arrays into a single pool of storage, activity is automated to reduce manual
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center IBM System Storage SAN Volume intervention, enabling you to improve
enables you to classify data, pool this Controller enables clients to manage both storage and resource utilization.
data with IBM System Storage SAN storage as a business resource avail-
Volume Controller and clean up storage able for deployment as required, and
files based on pre-established policies. not as sets of boxes that require indi-
vidual attention. This helps improve

4. Fully integrated functionality improves backed up. TotalStorage Productivity
efficiency for managing tiered storage Center can automatically drive Tivoli
Working with other products such as Storage Manager to back up desig-
the IBM Tivoli Storage Process nated files. TotalStorage Productivity
Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager and Center can also identify duplicate files,
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All customer examples described are presented
TotalStorage Productivity Center and focused, tiered way enables you to cre-
as illustrations of how those customers have
Tivoli Storage Manager can be used ate an architecture that can scale effi- used IBM products and the results they may
have achieved. Actual environmental costs and
together to keep files backed up or to ciently as data grows to your available
performance characteristics may vary by
remove or delete them if no longer space. customer.
needed. TotalStorage Productivity
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