Why IBM XIV is a Perfect Fit with VMware
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Monday, August 29, 2011
How smart is your storage? Does your storage help manage virtual servers and trim costs?
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| Why IBM XIV is a Perfect Fit with VMware |
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| Today, virtualization has become a core part of your IT arsenal – giving your enterprise the ability to consolidate disparate server and storage resources all while reducing power, floor space, and cooling. Even with the advantages of virtualization there are new challenges ahead that you may not have planned for including performance bottlenecks, availability and reliability in the face of new application workloads, and new management paradigms. |
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| In an increasingly complex IT environment, its time for a change. On a Smarter Planet, successful businesses need a simple, reliable and powerful virtualization storage solution. Together, IBM XIV Storage and VMware provide the best consolidation performance resiliency and usability for virtual infrastructures. |
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| Download: Why IBM XIV is a Perfect Fit with VMware whitepaper |
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“For our server virtualization project, we needed about 20 TB of capacity, which would have required four full racks in our old environment,” says Armando Rosa, Systems Administrator, CAMC. “IBM XIV gives us 27 TB in less than half a rack, and at a lower price than before—it’s a really amazingly small footprint. And a smaller footprint will translate into lower energy and cooling costs, which are critically important to us.”
IBM Success Story
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Better application and information availability
- Move applications without disruption to users
- Deploy applications faster
- Move data safely without disruption to applications
- Simplify use of tiered storage
- More flexible disaster recovery
Remove limitations of physical infrastructure
- Enable information management without concern about information location
- Increase flexibility and responsiveness to business requirements
- Logically consolidate without physical consolidation
- Physically consolidate while keeping workloads separate
- Simplify and standardize management Improve administrator productivity
- Improve resource utilization
- Ease deployment of multi-vendor environments
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