Industry Solutions Overview

As the amount of data in the enterprise grows beyond the capacity of IT managers' ability to manage, power and cool their expanding storage infrastructure, it becomes clear that multiple industries require a new approach to storage compression and optimization. IBM Storwize has sold into multiple organizations in a variety of industries. Here are some examples of where IBM Storwize real-time data compression has greatly improved companies' storage capacity utilization and ROI.

Chip Design

As chip design manufacturers have been able to deliver high performance computing while shrinking the processor footprint, IBM Storwize has been able to significantly compress primary data and reduce storage capacity utilization while delivering high performance storage operations. IT managers can get these benefits without any changes to storage infrastructure or applications and with no performance degradation.

Communications

Many communications IT managers have already invested in virtualization technology to help consolidate servers and may be looking at other ways to increase efficiencies that drive down costs and prepare for emerging cloud computing technologies. Storage optimization through real-time data compression is one way that communications companies can further consolidate their IT infrastructure and save on cost.

Entertainment

Video editing companies strain a storage system with large files being rendered into even larger files. Without usable files at their fingertips, work comes to a halt. IBM Storwize's real-time storage optimization of primary data can save entertainment companies from seeing their profit margins being eaten away by storage costs.

Financial Services

With data growth exceeding 50% for most financial services organizations, storage budgets are being devoured by the insatiable need to provision more and more physical storage capacity. IBM Storwize's real-time storage compression for primary data can reduce the need for additional storage, without compromising financial services organizations' ability to quickly access information.

Insurance

Few, if any, industries generate or rely on data as much as the insurance industry. Data has to be available when actuaries need it or when claim decisions need to be made quickly. See how IBM Storwize real-time data compression can reduce storage overhead while delivering outstanding performance.

Manufacturing

Among all the data challenges you face as manufacturers, one of the biggest is to create a real-time supply chain information system where applications used by global business units, customers and partners have instant access to information. IBM Storwize enables manufacturers to access information system data in real-time through primary data compression without performance degradation.

Oil and Gas

Active archives are a business critical platform for accessing legacy data and oil and gas organizations need a solution for long term retention of archive data with exceptionally low price-per-TB, including keeping more backup data on line. IBM Storwize real-time data compression achieves high compression rates for archival data and makes archive data instantly available to users and applications for increased productivity.

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IBM Storwize STN6800 for 10 GbE Environments Brochure

Primary Storage Optimization – An Overview White Paper

IBM Storwize Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) White Paper

IBM Storwize Technical Validation Report