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Data Center & Storage

The data center has become the heart and soul of a company. It provides far more than just the technology aspect of a business. But the average data center has grown extremely complex. Things like new technologies, fast growth, acquisitions, data explosion, and increased security concerns have driven complexity up and utilization rates down.

Our comprehensive portfolio of hardware from our partners, software, services, and partner alliances can help you build a robust, scalable, and highly available data center for your business, providing an open, integrated environment that can easily adapt to meet changing business needs

Virtualization & Consolidation

Consolidation and Virtualization customers can expect to overcome power and space limitations with measurable reductions in power and cooling requirements and a smaller systems footprint, along with vast improvements in system utilization, compute capacity and security. Our virtualization offerings in alliances with the major systems vendors provide data centers with the agility to respond quickly to changing business requirements while allowing organizations demonstrate higher levels of eco-responsibility within their communities.

Backup & Archiving

While managing rapidly growing volumes of data, you also must protect your business against data loss due to human errors, software errors, hardware failures and natural disasters. As if that weren’t enough of a challenge, you also must comply with increasing government regulations and be able to produce historical data upon request. Today you need more than just backup, you also need the ability to rapidly restore your information, and be able to encrypt it and save it on tape for long-term offsite storage. And with today’s seriously constrained economy, we have solutions that help you to do more with less, reduce costs, be more efficient and minimize risk within your environment.

Business Continuity

In today’s tough economic and competitive climate, any downtime of critical and near-critical servers and applications can result in loss of revenue or negatively impact customer services and employee productivity. These are simply unacceptable risks, and any data loss between backups can no longer be tolerated. You need continuous data protection to capture all changes between backups, and continuous application availability to ensure access to your critical applications. We help you to ensure the continuous availability of your organization’s critical and near-critical applications and data.

Enterprise Consolidation

Simplify your IT infrastructure by consolidating with Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise Consolidation, and reduce IT costs, increase service levels, and improve IT manageability in your data center.

Enterprise Migration

Migrate to a consistent platform for reduced cost and complexity, and gain the long-term investment protection of Systems and Operating System environment.

Independent Perspectives

Learn more about

- The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Automation, Q2 2008 by Evelyn Hubbert; Forrester Research

- Demystifying Client Virtualization by Natalie Lambert; Forrester Research

- X86 Virtualization Drives New Buyer Behavior by Frank E. Gillett; Forrester Research

- Forrester TechRadar™: Infrastructure Virtualization, Q2 2008 by Galen Schreck; Forrester Research

- The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Open Systems Virtual Tape Libraries, Q1 2008 by Stephanie Balaouras; Forrester Research

Perspectives from Product Partners

Learn more about

- Solaris™ Containers: Server Virtualization and Manageability

- Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter

- IBM POWER5 Systems Virtual SCSI Throughput