You don’t rip the engine out of a car to make it better. You trick-it-out.

Imagine taking all of your storage assets and encapsulating them into one storage pool. Imagine operating that storage at a lower cost while making your systems more valuable. Now, imagine assimilating all of your existing storage into a new system that makes the investments you have already made faster and stronger.

The answer to gaining an interoperable, faster, more efficient storage solution is not a net-new infrastructure purchase. The hardware you invested in a few years back is still good, but it can be made better.

Three software features – exclusive to IBM – possess the power to supercharge your existing infrastructure investments. No rip-and-replace is necessary to achieve agile performance and jaw-dropping cost savings. Designed for convenient implementation, these three features host exhilarated advantages that are honed to make your current storage systems faster, less expensive, and easier to manage.

Re-awaken your team’s competitive aptitude. Protect your storage investment. Trim your operational costs. And discover how three seamless, convenient software features can revitalize the decisions and investments you’ve already made in your storage infrastructure.

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Disparate, inefficient storage environments are a conundrum of the past.

With heterogeneous virtualization capabilities that use just a small percentage of flash (SSD) technology, companies can take existing storage systems – regardless of brand, make, or model – and create a completely new virtualized, performance-boosted environment.

This new flash-driven, external virtualization software is the only one of its kind. It doesn’t just connect your storage. It truly virtualizes and improves existing infrastructure performance. With IBM External Virtualization, your business can enhance the processing power of applications and fuel the efficiency of your work staff.

Add in a single-point-of-management with a world-class GUI interface, and your company gains the ability to manage, update, and protect all storage resources from one platform.

IBM External Virtualization technologies improve existing and future infrastructure performance by boosting the processing power of applications.1

Phase 1 of Storage EnhancementExternal Virtualization

Now that you have a truly virtualized environment with better controls, the next step in your storage enhancement process is to optimize those stored data pools. Imagine enhancing the gas within your car so that you can travel further without the risk of degrading the performance and speed of your engine.

What makes IBM Real-time Compression software so unique from all other competitors is its ability to compress all existing data that’s already in your storage tank instead of just the new data that is being syphoned in. This optimizes your entire storage infrastructure, creating more space and helping to significantly reduce data center expansion. Add in the power to automatically compress new data as it is stored, and your company can increase storage capacity and use less power.

IBM Real-time Compression technologies help companies save five times as much data in the same space and improve performance up to 50 percent – all while using less disk space.1

Phase 2 of Storage EnhancementReal-time Compression

With automated data tiering, IBM Easy Tier technology improves data storage management by three times.2

Phase 3 of Storage EnhancementEasy Tier Technology

The last step of your storage enhancement is engaging automated cruise control for your data sorting.

IBM Easy Tier technology also uses analytics to learn the data patterns within your business so that data can be automatically organized and fed to the right location. Unlike other tiering solutions that require new hardware purchases, IBM Easy Tier software can be implemented into existing infrastructures to nail a perfect storage balance between all systems.

Using a small percentage of flash and high capacity disk, Easy Tier technology’s hybrid model enables storage environments to gain perfect performance at a much lower price point. This is automated data organization at its finest.

Transforming the Economics of Data Storage

Does your storage need a jolt? Bring it back to life with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software. Reach out to an IBM Business Partner today to commence your IBM Storwize family exploration.

Conclusion

Don’t accept the same monotonous fate of ripping and replacing your hardware assets every few years. Breathe new life into your existing infrastructure using the latest software-defined storage features – available exclusively from IBM.

These three IBM Spectrum Virtualize software features – all available at the abstraction layer – have the power to virtualize, compress, and turbocharge the performance of your existing storage assets. You need all three of these features working together to transform your IT environment into a roaring engine of supped-up performance.

You didn’t get where you are today by accepting the inefficiencies of the past. Protect your storage investments and embrace a smarter tomorrow.

Introducing the latest trailblazing storage technology available exclusively from IBM: IBM Storwize family built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software.

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