IBM White Paper Sample

Purchasing storage hardware is only the beginning and often not the most expensive part of the solution. It is not likely that an organization will be able to reduce the amount of data stored so to reduce the TCO for your storage infrastructure requires improving overall efficiently by reducing the daily maintenance costs, streamlining upgrades, and the ability to dynamically introduce new technologies to your existing infrastructure to continue to improve efficiency. Achieving storage operational efficiencies requires that you have the ability to mix server and storage technologies. To non-disruptively add and remove storage and move data as requirements fluctuate over time without downtime or weekend work for your IT staff. In addition to a mixed hardware and storage environment you need to provide multiple levels of service to meet various business needs for availability, efficiency or regulatory compliance requirements across your organization. To achieve these goals requires a storage technology that is flexible, scalable and easy to manage. This is where Cloud Storage comes into the picture. Cloud storage provides these features for the storage environment by presenting storage as a service. Storage cloud service means decoupling the node running the application from the application data residing on the storage.