 "IBM Smarter Storage Offers Additional Disk Space With 50% Data Compression")
IBM has announced a 50 percent guaranteed data compression accompanied with equivalent savings as part of its ongoing storage offerings during this holiday season. These Diwali Dhamaka offerings will now extend all through the ongoing holiday season during December 2012.
Capitalising on the growing opportunities in storage, this offer is designed for customers to acquire the extra storage capacity without adding costly drives and reduce cost per Terabyte through IBM Real time compression on Storwize V7000. Real-time Compression on active primary data enables more storage capacity in the same physical space. This radical approach to storage is the best solution to keep pace with ever-growing storage needs.
Sandeep K Dutta, Country Manager - Storage, Systems & Technology Group, IBM India/SA, said “Continued data growth and economic pressures are driving the rapid adoption of compression technologies. Real-time Compression in IBM Storwize V7000 addresses these challenges. Due to its popularity, we are now extending this Diwali Dhamaka offer all the way up to the holiday season in December 2012. It will help our business partners address the market opportunity and drive high-margin sales.”
Business Partners can get Storwize V7000 with 16GB of cache, 10.2 TB of capacity, with flash copy and compression software with 3 year warranty on hardware & 1 year on software for just Rs 14.95 lakh and pay monthly price of Rs 1.25 lakh in 4 quarterly installments. The program is available for first system in customer environment, up to 2 compressed enclosures (equal to 4 uncompressed). Details of the qualification include:
Program focused on list of application workloads based on expected compression rates (>90 percent of total capacity)
Oracle RDBMS, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server Databases with alpha/numeric entries, VMWare environments
Compressed environments must not include pre-compressed data types but not limited to: Microsoft Office 7, any media data including images, video, audio (example JPEG, MPEG, .avi, etc)
60 day period of time to set up, load data and see results
IBM provides tools in the GUI to see compression savings at a system, pool and volume level
In order to provide state-of-the-art storage offerings to SMEs in India, IBM recently announced the launch of IBM Storwize V3700. It is specifically designed to help SME clients better manage their increasing data volumes. The IBM Storwize V3700 entry system provides a simple, efficient and affordable storage system designed to address customer performance requirements and infrastructure consolidation needs. It is the latest addition to the IBM Storwize family of disk systems, which delivers efficient, entry-level configurations specifically designed to meet the needs of SMEs. Designed to provide organisations with the ability to consolidate and share data at an affordable price, Storwize V3700 offers advanced software capabilities usually found in more high-end machines.