IBM DS4700 Series manual The future of your business is already here

The future of your business is already here

IBM System Storage™ solutions are built with the success of your business in mind. End-to-end storage ingenuity and unmatched expertise from IBM help you reduce costs, risks and complexity while improving efficiencies and the responsiveness of your infrastructure and people.

Go green for the planet—and your bottom line

Saving energy means saving money. Get a green “thumbs up” when you implement IBM System Storage solutions to drive down runaway costs in power, cooling and space. Regardless of the size of your business, IBM offers energy-efficient strategies and savings for a sustainable enterprise.

Power up your savings by powering down storage inefficiencies

●Prepackaged storage kits and advanced systems virtualiza- tion from IBM facilitate easier ways for you to reduce costs, lower energy consumption and dramatically improve storage utilization—without affecting performance.

●Automated tiered storage management and exceptional data mobility let you better match applications and investments to the value of stored data—saving both time and money.

Easy come, easy grow with a nimble, responsive IT infrastructure

Being responsive to changing business needs is often easier said than done. IBM System Storage helps you unlock busi- ness resiliency and stay ahead of everyday challenges, with easy-to-use, affordable storage offerings that flexibly manage growth, complexity and risk.

Effectively manage your data with the strength and simplicity of IBM System Storage

●Simplified storage platforms from IBM use graphical inter- faces and integrated systems to effortlessly manage both physical and virtual resources across a heterogeneous environment—for easier management of your growing business.

●IBM System Storage platforms allow you to dynamically and reliably scale storage with pervasive infrastructure flexibility to keep you in control of data growth and costs.

●Protecting data is vital to operating efficiently under normal business conditions—and rapidly recovering during emer- gencies. System Storage helps you reduce risk with rock- solid data protection tools and high availability across the enterprise, especially when you need it most.

Broaden your business horizons with innovation that matters

Imagine breakthrough innovations that allow you to run your organization not only faster, but better, helping to attract new customers and gain competitive advantages. System Storage solutions help you stay consistently out front so that you can make strategic decisions on how to use advancements in technology to broaden your business and gain a better return on investment.

Transform your business through innovation that matters

●Delineated along a clear technical roadmap to help ensure smooth upgrades and transitions, IBM storage platforms are designed to meet even the most stringent data storage requirements, regardless of changes in future technology.

●The long-term binary compatibilities of System Storage plat- forms foster longevity of the equipment, applications and skills that support your organization, even as new systems are introduced.

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