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1 IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family for an on demand world IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family Helping you build an on demand storage environment open softwa

2 a bet Overview Storage, today, is essential in helping enterprises around the world of every size and type achieve their business goals. Managing this storage within a framework of legal requirements, usage and availability needs, and operational-cost realities can be daunting. One key to turning this growing management challenge into a source of competitive advantage is the employment of an end-to-end storage management strategy that leverages the strength and breadth of one of the industry s most comprehensive storage management and virtualization portfolios available: the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family. The storage challenge Storage is a top priority for every business missioncritical and challenging to manage. What makes it challenging? Growth in storage demand due to digital content, , Internet-based applications and emerging technology. Complexity of storage networks with devices from different manufacturers resulting in separate islands of storage. Pressure to retain data for compliance with regulations worldwide. Threats to business continuity posed by disaster even human error, a cause of 40 percent of outages. 1 If dealing with storage management strains your budget, you re not alone. Storage for a typical Fortune 500 company grew from 7 TB in 1996 to 48 TB in 2002, while storage-related expenditures rose from 11 percent of a CIO s budget in 1996 to 17 percent in A better way, available today What if you could address your storage challenge by getting more out of your existing storage infrastructure investment? It s a different approach than just adding more capacity, which can add to the challenge. Picture it: Business continuity even during reconfigurations. Virtual elimination of backup windows. Recoverability if disaster occurs. Flexibility to choose products from different manufacturers. A single point of management over your entire storage network, using your storage and data resources to their full potential. Excellent productivity of storage administrators and the potential to reduce errors. Movement of data across storage devices for optimum performance with little or no impact to applications. And movement of data that you need over the long term to lower-cost devices, while accessing and sharing the data you need every day. Can you see it? What you re envisioning is what we call an on demand storage environment.

3 ter way Helping you build an on demand storage environment: IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family An on demand storage environment will ultimately help to support the goals of your business. And that s what the capabilities of the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family are designed to help you achieve. Open Software Family capabilities can be used alone or integrated together based on your specific business needs as your storage environment evolves. Each of these capabilities is designed to help you: Enhance personnel productivity so that you can spend less time managing storage and more time creating new opportunities Optimize storage resource utilization so that you can become responsive to new business needs at a low cost Improve application availability so that you have fewer application outages, including the ability to introduce these capabilities to your storage environment with minimal or no impact to data availability Open Software Family capabilities include storage infrastructure management, hierarchical storage man-agement (HSM), archive and recovery management, and storage virtualization. You can complement Open Software Family products with IBM TotalStorage hardware, planned for future inclusion in storage orchestration capabilities from IBM Tivoli software, and education and financing services for a complete storage solution from IBM. Storage infrastructure management Storage infrastructure management is designed to make resource sharing possible across the enterprise, including heterogeneous networks. It helps empower administrators by providing an integrated view of the entire storage environment including software and hardware. Storage infrastructure management provides insight into the historic, operational and predictive analytics of the storage environment that, in turn, can help administrators improve storage capacity and network utilization, and help avoid business outages. It also supports policy-based automation, such as capacity provisioning, performance optimization and data management, helping to provide outstanding business agility. Storage infrastructure management of the Open Software Family can be enhanced through virtualization, a capability that pools and shares enterprise-wide storage assets to help you optimize utilization and performance, and improve availability.

4 software Many of the storage infrastructure management products of the Open Software Family use a common openstandards interface for management based on the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). This gives you the flexibility to interoperate with products from many different providers, without having to change the way you manage your environment. Hierarchical storage management Open Software Family HSM capabilities provide a way to capture low-activity or inactive data and feed it into a hierarchy of lower-cost or tiered storage. This helps you control your data storage growth and costs. Automated, policy-based capabilities determine where data should be stored, based on factors such as how critical it is to your business, how accessible and available you want it to be, and the cost structures of available devices. Support for a broad range of platforms, spanning from mainframes to open distributed systems, offers you flexibility in choice and investment protection. And interoperability with IBM Content and Records Management products allows enterprise data to be moved from one medium to another with efficiency while helping avoid disruptions in service. Archive management Manage the cost of capturing point-in-time copies of important data for regulatory or bookkeeping requirements with archive management capabilities of the Open Software Family. Archive, retain and manage data, including . Archive management also provides HSM capabilities. Archive management productsare interoperable with many content management products available in the marketplace, including the IBM DB2 Content Management family. And they support a wide variety of storage media, write one read many (WORM) tape and magnetic disks. The IBM TotalStorage Data Retention 450 is designed as a preconfigured, integrated solution to help store, retrieve, manage, share and secure regulated and nonregulated data. It uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention for management and enforcement of data-retention policies. The solution s policy-based archive data-retention 3 capabilities are designed to support nonerasable, nonrewritable data storage. Using an established archive application programming interface (API), it helps address the needs of regulated industries and other businesses with long-term dataretention and protection needs.

5 capabilities Recovery management These automated tools are designed to help your enterprise recover data when and where you need it. They help you to create and track reliable recovery points of your most critical enterprise data, based on preset policies. Through centralized, Web-based management, recovery management capabilities provide intelligent backup and archiving to help avoid impact on application availability. They are designed to match the value of protected data and applications to the most cost-effective media whether tape or disk storage. Scalable recovery management products of the Open Software Family are designed to help you address a wide range of service level agreements (SLAs) using the appropriate cost structure. Automated policy-based data-movement and intelligent storage techniques are designed to help free up administrators to work on higher-value tasks and projects. Storage virtualization Storage virtualization software is designed to improve the flexibility and utilization of your storage. Virtualization works by pooling your storage volumes, files and file systems into a single reservoir of capacity for centralized management. This reservoir can include storage capacity from multiple vendors and platforms in heterogeneous environments. Virtualization is also designed to reduce the effects of reconfigurations at the hardware level, to help support business continuity. Storage orchestration Storage orchestration is being designed to help automate the management of storage environments to meet service levels or other business policies. Beginning with policybased, automated work flows, storage orchestration is planned to include optional real-time monitoring and intelligence designed to enable autonomic management of the on demand storage environment. This is intended to automate complex and error-prone tasks to help reduce or eliminate human error and associated application outages. Open Software Family the power of choice With the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family, you can choose from one of the broadest portfolios of storage infrastructure management and virtualization capabilities in the industry. And the Open Software Family lets you choose hardware and software from a wide range of vendors for your infrastructure, IBM or not. That s because our products are modular, integrated and interoperable with many other vendor products based on open industrysupported standards.

6 software IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is an open storage infrastructure-management offering designed to help reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructures, and to help improve storage capacity utilization and administrative efficiency. It is designed to enable an agile storage infrastructure that can respond to on demand storage needs. The Productivity Center comprises a user interface (UI) designed for ease of use in addition to these components: IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Designed to automate the capacity management of file and database resources in a storage infrastructure. It also offers capabilities for analyzing how effectively these resources are being used. IBM Tivoli SAN Manager Designed to automate management of a broad range of devices in a storage network. Offers automatic resource discovery, event monitoring and alerting, zone control, and Storage area network (SAN) error-prediction capabilities. IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager Designed to helps administrators manage a heterogeneous SAN environment from a single point. It is designed to operate with a number of SMI-S enabled storage devices such as the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) and the IBM TotalStorage FAStT Family of Servers as well as storage that is virtualized using the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Tivoli Storage Manager is designed for recovery management. It is available in three packages: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for SAN. Storage Manager Extended Edition also includes Disaster Recovery Manager and support for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP). All three include Operational Reporting Capabilities. Tivoli Storage Manager products offer one of the most comprehensive sets of APIs in the industry to help enable independent software vendors to easily adapt their solutions to IBM software and to help joint customers customize, secure and extend the functionality of their storage environments. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Designed to provide enterprise-level availability of key data and applications in the event of hardware, software or network failures. It offers move-and-store techniques and policy-based automation, designed to work together to help increase data and application protection, decrease disaster-recovery time and lower storage administration costs. It also manages inactive data and is designed to match the value of the data to the most cost-effective storage management practices.

7 family IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition Contains base functions and added capabilities, including tape-library-sharing capabilities among multiple data protection servers and expanded administration capabilities designed to handle thousands of client computers. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to interoperate with a wide range of optional, separately orderable modules for mail, databases, application servers, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and hardware. The optional modules for the Tivoli Storage Manager family provide a high level of application and hardware integration with the data protection process. They include IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management to address your HSM needs, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention to address your archive needs. IBM TotalStorage virtualization software Virtualization software is designed to help improve the flexibility of your storage infrastructure to address rapidly changing storage needs. It works with storage infrastructure management software designed to centralize volume, file and device management to help improve utilization. IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller Designed to virtualize the storage in your network and centralize management. Designed to help administrators migrate data, and add capacity, performance and software upgrades without disrupting application availability. The SAN Volume Controller storage software can be delivered as an appliance within the SAN Volume Controller or embedded within the Caching Services Module of the Cisco MDS 9000 Switch. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management Designed to move inactive, rarely accessed data to less-expensive offline storage or near-line storage. Frees online disk space for more important, active data, which remains in the local file system. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention Helps manage and simplify retrieval of data that must be retained for strict regulatory requirements in a flexible and function-rich manner. IBM TotalStorage SAN File System 4 Designed to virtualize file and data management for application servers in your network. Automates routine file and data management tasks through customerdefined rules or policies, specifying what storage pool is to be used when a file is created. Helps align the quality of storage service with the value of your data.

8 benefits IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center benefits at a glance Help improve application Help optimize storage Help enhance storage availability resource utilization personnel productivity IBM Tivoli Storage Designed to help prevent Designed to conduct data- Designed to automate Resource Manager out-of-space conditions base, file system, directory reporting of information on file and database and file-level analysis and metrics automatically systems Designed to identify obsolete archives it so that adminor orphan data and auto- istrators can make better, matically archive it more timely decisions Designed to forecast future growth and at-risk situations IBM Tivoli Designed to help predict Designed to report on Designed to create a SAN Manager storage network failures storage network single point of control, before they happen to performance administration and security enable preventative for managing heterogemaintenance neous storage networks Designed to accelerate problem isolation when failures do happen IBM TotalStorage Designed for effective Designed to monitor and Designed to provide Multiple Device use of disk resources automate replication advanced, heterogeneous Manager (cache and busy I/O) operations storage management from Designed to suspend, Designed to manage a single console resume and resynchro- storage devices proactively nization of replication operations

9 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Family benefits at a glance Help improve application Help optimize storage Help enhance storage availability resource utilization personnel productivity IBM Tivoli Storage Designed to help ensure Designed to help protect Designed to automate Manager business continuity and valuable data and business recovery management tasks recovery while still oper- processes Reporting designed for ating your business Designed to archive inactive ease of administrative tasks Designed for disk to disk data to help reduce costs backup for frequently Designed as one integrated accessed information that point of management from is needed quickly laptop to mainframe optimized Designed for integration for local area network (LAN), with Content Management wide area network (WAN) application for advanced and SAN search and audit capabilities IBM Tivoli Storage Designed to be able to Designed to move inactive Designed to automate HSM Manager for Space free disk space for more- data to less-expensive devices data movement through Management active data flexible policies IBM Tivoli Storage Designed to enable freeing Designed to protect data that Designed to automate Manager for Data of disk space for more-active must be retained on less archive-management Retention data expensive devices such as tasks including automatic Designed for ease of integra- Serial Advanced Technology expiration of data when tion with existing applications Attachment (SATA), DVD and retention policy is met WORM tape with one interface

10 take the IBM TotalStorage virtualization software benefits at a glance Help improve application Help optimize storage Help enhance storage availability resource utilization personnel productivity IBM TotalStorage Designed to eliminate or Designed to aggregate disk Designed to create a SAN Volume reduce many of the causes capacity from multiple storage single point of control, Controller of storage-related downtime systems and enable you administration and security Designed to perform data to transparently allocate that for disk volumes migrations between storage capacity to applications, Designed to enable systems with minimal or no when and how you need it physical changes to the disruptions to applications storage systems without Designed to create a common disrupting applications platform and API for volume point-in-time and remote copy services across multiple storage systems IBM TotalStorage Designed to create a common Designed to help eliminate the Designed to create a single SAN File System platform and API for file point- pre-allocation of disk capacity point of control, administrain-time copy services to specific host systems or appli- tion and security for file File based IBM FlashCopy cations, pool filespace across management function can help reduce heterogeneous platforms Designed to automate downtime for backups Designed to allow sharing routine tasks through Designed to help reduce or between applications even rules-based provisioning eliminate application down- between server platforms and Designed to perform file time for file and data manage- help reduce or eliminate the and data maintenance as ment asks add, move and need to maintain duplicate data needed without the need change file system capacity for sharing for planned downtime nondisruptively Designed for proactive filespace management with tools for quota management Designed to define multiple, space efficient, online recovery points

11 next step Take the next step By focusing on evolving your storage infrastructure to an on demand storage environment, you can address your storage challenges. The IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family can help you build an on demand storage environment. This family of storage software products offers storage infrastructure management and virtualization capabilities, along with capabilities in HSM, archive management and recovery management. The modular, integrated and open solutions of the Open Software Family can help you control storage growth and costs in a flexible environment that can be managed enterprise-wide using automated processes through software products based on standard interfaces. An environment of business continuity in which changes can be made with minimal or no interruption to your business applications or the servers on which they run. About IBM At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry s most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services including financial, education and technical and consulting businesses worldwide. We can assist you in developing and deploying complete, end-to-end storage solutions to meet your business requirements. And we can assist you throughout the IT life cycle, including assessment, design and implementation all delivered locally by our global network of skilled professionals. IBM also works with IBM Business Partners and other leading technology companies to deliver the right solutions to help your business succeed in today s dynamic workplace. For more information Contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner to learn more about the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family. Or visit ibm.com/storage/software

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