Storage with Smarts for small & medium business

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Overview

Comprehensive data storage solutions

To truly optimize your IT infrastructure, it’s key to have a comprehensive and resilient approach to hybrid cloud. One that lowers costs without cloud lock-in, integrates and plays well with your existing solutions — all while simplifying containerization, management, software-defined storage and modern data protection.

Why data storage for hybrid cloud

Benefits

Simplify hybrid cloud

Reduce complexity with enterprise storage across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.

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Optimize AI and data

Streamline artificial intelligence (AI) projects with a storage platform that delivers performance, scalability, and flexibility.

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Data protection and resiliency

Maximize backup storage efficiency, data security and performance with maximum uptime  at a lower cost.

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Data storage systems

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IBM Flash Storage family of products

All-flash storage

Turbocharge your flash access with end-to-end NVMe for accelerated performance and lower latency.

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SoftwareDefined Storage (SDS)

Manage your data growth and enable cloud initiatives with file, block and object solutions.

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Modern data protection

Protect your critical business data with an integrated approach to backup and disaster recovery.

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IBM FlashSystem 7200

Hybrid storage

Control costs with an optimized mix of storage media at an affordable price.

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Storage Area Networks (SAN)

Capitalize on enterprise-wide data sharing and collaboration with intelligent SAN switches, directors and routers.

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Tape storage

Scalable, durable, secure, and energy-efficient tape storage at a compellingly lower cost.

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Enterprise storage infrastructure solutions

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Hybrid cloud storage

Container-enabled enterprise storage, deployed seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid cloud storage environments helps you reduce complexity.

Storage for AI and big data

Storage for data & AI simplifies your infrastructure with optimized efficiency to drive faster results that are massively scalable and globally available from edge to inference.

Storage virtualization

Storage virtualization lets you centralize management to unify mixed environments and uncover hidden capacity.

Storage for mainframes and cyber-resilience

Multi-layered mainframe storage solutions, deeply integrated with end-to-end cyber resiliency, help you safeguard your infrastructure from complex business risks.

Cloud Pak and container storage

Protect your data with persistent storage services for containers.

Enterprise container-native storage solutions for OpenShift

IBM Spectrum Fusion* provides global hybrid cloud data access and enterprise storage services for mission critical data. From the edge to the cloud, manage and protect your data wherever it lives.

Data storage use cases

Delivering more economic energy

IBM spectrum virtualize story case study on Orange caraibe

Orange Caraïbe was able to build an eco-friendly data center that doubled storage capacity and dramatically reduced energy consumption with IBM FlashSystem technology.

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Connecting communities through always-on IT

Large interconnected structures and three sea green domes with spires on the top of the beautiful Archdiocese Salzburg

Using IBM FlashSystem, the Archdiocese of Salzburg is able to ensure that its services are always available to its community while simultaneously keeping staff and clergy connected.

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Responding to rapid economic development

IBM flash system-reliable, secure banking

Banco Bradesco addressed evolving consumer needs by using IBM® Z® and IBM Storage systems to develop a reliable, secure, innovative banking platform that allows customers to bank the way they want to.

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Resources

What is data storage

Learn about the fundamentals of data storage, including the forms in which data can be recorded and stored as well as the different types of storage devices.

IBM Storage community

Read the latest discussions in the IBM Storage community and find the latest files related to data storage.

Storage solutions Redbooks

Explore data storage installation and implementation experiences, typical solution scenarios, and step-by-step "how-to" guidelines.

More data storage solutions

Flash storage solutions

All-flash arrays to keep your data protected and available.

Data backup and recovery

Maximize uptime and resiliency while lowering costs.

Software-Defined Storage

Smarter solutions with intelligence and functionality for storage without compromise.

Lab services for storage and SDS

Find and deploy the building blocks of a next-generation IT infrastructure that empowers your business.

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