Storage Systems

CIOs and I&Os (Infrastructure & Operations leaders) face daily a complex mix of events that can affect business outcomes like managing the growing data space of each line of business applications, maintaining core IT applications, uncovering competitive advantages.

All these demands put pressure on the storage infrastructure’s performance, capacity, security, resiliency, and agility while having the best financial outcomes from the total cost of acquisition and ownership (TCA, TCO) and ROI (Return on Investment).

Organizations are looking to transform and enhance their business with a comprehensive storage solution that integrates and refreshes their existing IT infrastructure while reducing costs. To truly optimize the IT infrastructure requires a complete and resilient approach to hybrid cloud. One that lowers costs without cloud lock-in integrates and plays well with their existing solutions while simplifying containerization, management, software-defined storage, and modern data protection.

GBM offers a wide range of IBM storage, and Data Protection Solutions, together with the know-how to integrate and support the different businesses industry’s needs.

IBM Storage can easily simplify your data infrastructure using an underlying software foundation to strengthen and streamline the storage in your hybrid cloud environment, using a simplified approach to containerization, management and data protection.

GBM has all the professional experience to deliver end-to-end IBM Storage and data protection solution.

A new line of defense against cyber attacks

The Safeguarded Copy solution is the latest protection mechanism for data on IBM Storage products. It helps secure data to prevent it from being compromised, either accidentally or deliberately and allows for recovery from protected backups in the event of a cyberattack. It provides secure, point-in-time copies or snapshots of active production data that cannot be altered or deleted (immutable copies). Later on, it can be used to identify, repair, or replace data that has been compromised by either a cyber or internal attack or corrupted by system failures or human error. The safeguarded backups or copies of data are protected with additional security provided through unique user roles with dual management control (separation of duties).

IBM Offerings: IBM DS8000, IBM FlashSystem and SVC storage families, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Copy Services Manager software; IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Storage for hybrid cloud

IBM Storage for hybrid multi-cloud environments reduces complexity with container-enabled enterprise storage, deployed seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid cloud storage environments. Hybrid cloud storage creates a strategic storage foundation to help modernize existing storage infrastructure. While avoiding vendor and cloud-provider lock-in, enterprises can innovate and transition to a hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure with IBM solutions. Integrated with all-flash and hybrid storage systems, these offerings can scale up and scale down your storage capacity as application and data growth require.

IBM Offerings: IBM FlashSystem family, IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storage Insights, IBM Spectrum Control, IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud, IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks IBM FlashWatch

Enterprise all-flash storage

An extreme-performant flash storage solution in today’s industry, the IBM FlashSystem family is a portfolio (entry, mid-range and high-end) with high capabilities to enable rapid and flexible cloud services and deployments. In addition, it is designed to be easily deployed and quickly scaled to help optimize storage configurations. As a result, an organization can get the optimal all-flash NVMe performance, the reliability of IBM FlashCore® technology and the enterprise capabilities of Spectrum Virtualize.

IBM Offerings: IBM FlashSystem family, IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud.

Storage for Big Data and AI

IBM Storage for data and AI is more than a set of storage products and solutions. It consists of a storage strategy that will help you on your journey to AI and the hybrid cloud. GBM solutions provide a flexible, high-performance information architecture that modernizes your infrastructure with global data access and services that are simple to manage and faster to access and optimize. As a result, it drives down expenses and brings more value to your organization.

Modernize your infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) and big data with the implementation of the IBM Elastic Storage System, making it easier for you to deploy fast, highly scalable storage. In addition, the solution provides policy-based tiering and data reduction, integrated and modular for simplicity, cyber-secure lockable data, and audit trails.

IBM Offerings: IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM Spectrum Discover, IBM Elastic Storage System®.

Storage for Containers

IBM Storage unifies traditional and container-ready storage and provides cloud-native agility, reliability, availability, and security to manage enterprise containers in a production environment. As clients scale their containerized applications beyond development, testing or departmental use, the award-winning IBM Storage delivers enterprise data services to containers. Meaning, mission-critical infrastructure is now possible, providing shared-storage operational efficiency, price-performance leadership, and data resource and storage protection.

IBM Offerings: IBM IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks, IBM FlashSystem family, IBM DS8000 Storage Systems, IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud, IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM Spectrum Discover, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Manage complex storage infrastructures

IBM Storage Insights provides a single pane of glass to monitor your storage environments either on-premises or in the cloud. As a result, storage insights help you manage complex storage infrastructures, make cost-saving decisions and streamline support. It combines IBM data management leadership with proprietary AI-based analytics from IBM Research®.

IBM Offerings: IBM Storage Insights.

Data Protection and Resiliency

IBM’s data resilience solutions are rapidly evolving to meet new challenges. Data resilience solutions help companies adapt to new environments, such as container management platforms and hybrid cloud services, to keep data safe, no matter where it lives. Data resilience solutions also support cost-effective data retention and cyber resilience by integrating software-defined storage, immutable object storage, and tape offerings. Equally important, new data protection solutions greatly simplify data management by unifying workload protection and automating the data protection processes.

IBM Offerings: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management, IBM Spectrum Archive, IBM Tape Solutions

Storage for SAP HANA

The IBM Storage portfolio includes a comprehensive set of SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI)-certified solutions to address the full range of data delivery, management, protection, and budget requirements modern enterprises need. In addition, high availability configurations, integrated data resilience capabilities, and built-in cyber-resiliency features help address the ever-increasing demands for greater data availability in mission-critical SAP environments.

IBM Offerings: IBM FlashSystem family, IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management.

Utilizing mature and proven IBM storage technologies, GBM can digitally transform your business, converting it into a data-driven, multi-cloud organization.