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Information Lifecycle Management
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It starts with user practices not just throwing a solution like, scanners, SANS and programs at the challenge of managing and storing your data. SPSI and our solutions help you take back control of your data.
Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a comprehensive approach to managing the flow of an information system's data and associated metadata from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.
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How do you classify information? How do you assign policies to archive information? What solutions are available to assist in complying with today's regulatory environment? Where do you start? SPSI has an extensive set of services that can help businesses meet these challenges.
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Applications, databases, email servers and even Network folder the data inside these systems will continue to grow unless you take control now.
Archive solutions are designed to identify data that is no longer being accessed regularly and move the data to an archive, where it remains available if needed. Because applications can span multiple database systems and even multiple platforms, select application and database archive solutions can recognize related data from multiple systems and archive it together this is where we come in
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is a powerful storage software suite that addresses
the challenges of complex storage management in distributed heterogeneous
environments. It protects and manages a broad range of data, from workstations
to the corporate server environment. More than 44 different operating platforms
are supported, using a consistent graphical user interface.
Tivoli Storage Manager provides:
- Centralized administration for data and storage management
- Fully automated data protection
- Efficient management of information growth
- High-speed automated server recovery
- Full compatibility with hundreds of storage devices, as well as LAN, WAN, and
SAN infrastructures
- Optional customized backup solutions for major groupware, enterprise
resource planning (ERP) applications, and database products
Tivoli Storage Manager is the premier choice for complete storage management
in mixed platform environments. It is used by more than 80 of the Fortune 100
companies, and it protects more than one million systems around the world.
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Storage Area Network (SAN)
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Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. As more storage devices are added to a SAN, they too will be accessible from any server in the larger network. In this case, the server merely acts as a pathway between the end user and the stored data.
Because stored data does not reside directly on any of a network's servers, server power is utilized for business applications, and network capacity is released to the end user.
IBM System Storage portfolio offers the industry's broadest range of storage solutions' including disk, tape, SAN, software, financial and services offerings' enabling companies to create long-term solutions that can be tailored to their business needs. IBM System Storage tiered disk, tape and SAN switch solutions provide a wide variety of choices to align and move data to cost-optimized storage based on policies, matching the storage solution with the service level requirements and the value of the data.
Confidently protect your strategic information assets and efficiently comply with regulatory and security requirements with the unrivaled breadth of storage solutions from IBM. IBM SAN directors and routers provide metro and global connectivity between sites over Internet Protocol, IP networks. IBM SAN extension solutions include data compression and encryption services to help protect your data in flight between your secure data centers.
IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of SAN switches, storage, software, services and solutions to reliably bring information to people in a cost effective way. IBM provides flexible, scalable and open standards-based business-class and global enterprise-class storage networking solutions for the on demand world
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Network Attached Storage (NAS)
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Network attached storage, or NAS, is shared storage attached to a local area network. A NAS server is a storage appliance that consists of a high performance file server that plugs into a LAN. Unlike a general-purpose server, such as a Unix®, Linux® or Windows® server, a NAS server is a specialized appliance optimized for file serving, i.e., storing, retrieving, and serving files in a heterogeneous protocol environment. The power of a NAS solution is that, in an environment with many servers running different operating systems with fragmented storage islands, storage of data can be centralized onto a NAS device, as can the security, management, and backup of the data.
NAS was developed to address problems with direct attached storage (DAS), which included the effort required to administer and maintain "server farms", and the lack of scalability, reliability, availability, and performance. NAS offers significant ease of use, providing heterogeneous data sharing and helping organizations automate and simplify their data management.
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