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Accessing and sharing information across storage networks
Storage area network (SAN) technology will allow universal storage and data access across an enterprise, regardless of server platform or storage vendor. A SAN can help expand your company's business opportunities and competitiveness by making it easier to extract value from your business information. A SAN can be complex, requiring skilled resources and support to plan, design, implement and run the storage network.
IBM Global Services can reduce the complexity of this technology. We will help you integrate complex networks and storage systems into cohesive, responsive, cost-effective SAN solutions. We can implement and support IBM and non-IBM environments. Our years of experience with networks and products bearing many different logos gives us the skills you can rely on.
Our services specialists will help you extract value more easily from your business data by enabling you to share information across networks, regardless of vendor technology. At the same time, we provide enhanced management capabilities for application servers, storage subsystems, network hardware and storage management software.
We offer you complete network lifecycle capabilities including:
- Planning
- Design
- Connectivity
- Implementation
- Management
You can select the level of service and support needed for your environment by choosing the services that will best fit your business needs.
As a growing number of SAN network components are introduced by IBM and others, we intend to expand our service offerings to provide continuing support for your technology investments.
It starts with good planning and design
Using the lifecycle approach, we can create a project plan and model your SAN network. If you have existing storage networks, we can help you plan and design changes to it. Our experience with a wide range of systems and products means that we can protect your current investment by incorporating your existing products into your larger storage network.
We begin by analyzing your existing network, protocols, configurations, capacity, resources, workload, workflow and traffic to plan and model your new or improved storage network. Our specialists also provide test modeling systems, networks and application infrastructure models.
We help you design a system that has sufficient capacity for today and the future. We help you choose suitable network management tools and assist you with creating a backup and recovery plan to minimize or eliminate down time.
Connectivity
Using our site and connectivity services, our specialist works to help you:
- Optimize your IT investments
- Improve your effectiveness
- Allocate resources efficiently to improve customer and user satisfaction
Our services specialist helps you leverage your current storage infrastructures while seamlessly integrating your new SAN technology. We complement our storage, storage management, server, network and software products with non-IBM SAN-proven components such as gateways, hubs and switches to native fibre channel (FC)-attached disk and storage devices.
Implementation and data migration
Using the plan for your storage network, we can install your network (or network upgrade) and help you migrate to your new environment with minimal disruptions to your end-users. During installation, we work to meet your goals and business needs.
Our management services can help you run your network by providing:
- End user support
- Storage monitoring and management
- Testing, if needed
- Your resources can be used for your core business while we assist you with any extra demands of your storage networks.
You've trusted IBM Global Services to provide end-to-end system support in the past and you can continue to count on us to help you move seamlessly to a storage area network. We are uniquely positioned to help you integrate complex networks and storage systems into cohesive, responsive, cost-effective SAN solutions. We can help you with your storage solutions whether they incorporate IBM products or a mixture of open system products and vendors.
We add value through comprehensive, storage services encompassing connectivity, management and exploitation of systems, products and technology all backed by the strength of IBM Global Services. Our global reach, leadership in e-business, technological superiority and end-to-end portfolio of services makes IBM your logical choice for help in designing, deploying and managing storage networks.
