IBM SAN Volume Controller Seed Program - Storage Virtualization Made Simple

In today’s economic climate, businesses must become more responsive to customer demands but at the same time control costs associated with infrastructure.  These ideas have shaped the Dynamic Storage Infrastructure within IBM.

Many customers are either deploying or seriously considering Virtualizing their computing infrastructure.  Server consolidation, and the resulting server virtualization, is a mainstream initiative within many IT organizations, driving cost reduction and delivering a more flexible infrastructure.  But virtualizing the server environment is only half the puzzle. 

IBM pioneered Storage Virtualization technology over 6 years ago and is the recognized as the leader in Storage Virtualization with the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC).  IBM’s extensive experience in Storage Virtualization has demonstrated, like server virtualization, it also has a very strong return on investment.   The IBM SVC is to storage, what VMware is to Intel Servers.

So what makes the IBM San Volume Controller special?

• Investment Protection: With over 180 different Competitive disk arrays supported by SVC, it can protect your investment in storage and extend its functional life. 
• Simplification: Provides a single user interface for ALL Storage as well as provide tools that allow storage capacity provisioned in minutes.
• Flexibility: At the heart of the SVC is the capability to non-disruptively move data while the applications are accessing it across a heterogeneous environment. 
• Cost reduction: Improves storage utilization upward of 50% through advanced virtualization software.
• Scalability: SVC is a highly scalable and modular architecture which can start very small but grow to Petabytes of capacity.

IBM’s System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) can help leverage your existing IT investments, reduce software expenses for advanced functions, and provide the flexibility and scalability that your customer needs to adapt quickly to continual change.  By utilizing and managing your storage infrastructure more effectively, the IBM SVC will lower your operational costs.

And now IBM has made it even easier for you to introduce storage virtualization to your customer.  Contact your Arrow inside sales representative to learn about an amazing offer around the IBM SAN Volume controller or to get more information about Storage Virtualization Offerings from IBM.