Archive Solution Overview

AArchive and retention is the number one storage growth market today. This session will describe factors driving the need for archive solutions, defining the difference between a backup and an archive solution.  This session will discuss IBM's archive strategy and provide and overview of IBM's archive solutions portfolio including storage hardware, software and services along with the benefits for implementing them.  Some of the solutions discussed will be email, database and file archive along with retention hardware offerings that bring together disk and tape for optimal TCO.

Content Collection & Archiving Solution Overview

Content collection is the process of collecting, enhancing and managing virtually all types of content, regardless of creation type and storage mechanism driving expanded business value – it doesn’t just reduce operational problems but it enables organizations to take back control and to unlock the business value of content.  Content collection and archiving can support virtually all content types in a Windows environment including multiple types of casually created content.  It can also seamlessly support advanced retention and records management as well as multiple types of classification. Finally it provides a lower TCO since costs are leveraged across multiple content types and advanced functionality is enabled out of the box.  This session will focus on the problems caused by unstructured data growth specifically with file and Email.  Since email is the primary medium for how we communicate and by 2009 email volume is expected to grow by 53% we will focus on email content.  This session will describe the challenges growing email systems put on businesses along with common ways businesses try to deal with them.  It will describe the differences between email backups and an effective archive.  We will discuss the IBM email archive solution for Domino and Exchange along with e-discovery in a Windows environment.  This session will also show how the software and storage hardware work together for a complete solution and describe some of IBM's service offerings around email archive.  A short demo of the key concepts described in the presentation of an email content collection and archive solution using IBM Content Collector for Email including e-discovery will be given. 

Database Archive Solution Overview

Structured data, such as databases, is growing at an average of 32% per year while 85% of production data is inactive.  This session will describe the challenges and problems that growing databases put on businesses.  It will describe how a database archive solution can provide benefits to both the business and database administrators.  It will describe the six steps involved in creating a database archive using the industry's leading database archive solution IBM Optim.  This session includes a short demo that runs through all the concepts described in the presentation archiving data from DB2 and then restoring a subset to an Oracle DB.

Long Term Data Preservation Overview

As the world becomes digital, the world’s data is more in danger to be lost.  Our ability to store digital bits increases, but our ability to use the stored digital data over time decreases.  This session looks at the challenges of long term digital preservation.  We will discuss some of the issues that people are dealing with today, preservation approaches and what IBM is doing to about it.

File System Archiving for Space Mgt with TSM

There are 2 primary forces driving archive, space management and data retention.  Tivoli Storage Manager provides automated policy based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) for Windows and Unix systems.  This topic provides an overview of client based HSM features available using Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux) and Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows.   A short demo of Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows will be shown.

Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)

As doctors and patients demand more frequent scans, the number of medical images is growing exponentially, dramatically increasing storage and administrative costs for providers.  This session will describe how GMAS can help you securely store and efficiently transmit diagnostic images and documents within your enterprise or across multisite facilities.  It combines the power of grid computing with intelligent information life-cycle management to optimize the storage of large volumes of fixed-content data.  The end result is an ability to deliver patient images wherever they're needed at the moment they're needed which can lead to improved diagnosis and treatment.

IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtectTIER De-duplication Gateway

An option to maintain high-level data protection for growing amounts of enterprise data is to add more disk space to the data protection infrastructure. This is an approach which can quickly become cost prohibitive as data volumes continue to grow, while capital budgets for infrastructure do not.  This session describes how the TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway solution can help organizations more efficiently protect their corporate data on disk-based storage while reducing the amount of space required for storage.  With the implementation of this solution, customers can experience up to 25X storage capacity reduction. This session includes a short demo using the TSM Backup/Archive client and a standard TSM server.

IBM XIV Overview and Technology

IBM XIV Storage System is an innovative storage system designed to deliver performance, scalability, and ease of management while harnessing the high capacity and cost benefits of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives.  The system employs off-the-shelf products as opposed to traditional offerings, which need more expensive components that use proprietary designs.  The system architecture ensures high performance with the full exploitation of all system components.  Any I/O activity involving a specific logical volume in the system is always inherently handled by all spindles.  This session will explain how the IBM XIV architecture uses standard components to achieve the features listed above and more.

IBM System Storage DS Family

The IBM TotalStorage DS Family is designed to help companies simplify its storage infrastructure, support business continuity and improve information life-cycle management.  It combines cost-effective scalability, a more consistent method to store and access data across the enterprise, streamlined data management tools and advanced virtualization technologies.  The potential benefits are clear: increased efficiency and employee productivity enhanced data protection and improved return on investment.  The IBM TotalStorage DS Family includes the following disk systems: DS8000, DS6000, DS5000, DS4000 and DS3000.

IBM System Storage N Series

As enterprise storage requirements evolved from direct-attached to networked storage, many enterprises made significant investments in multiple storage architectures such as storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) to support the different access methods required by various business solutions.  The IBM System Storage™ N series includes a selection of features and functions designed to provide a comprehensive set of robust management and operational tools as well as high availability features, disaster recover, de-duplication and data copy services for environments requiring either Internet Protocol (IP) or Fibre Channel (FC) attachment solutions.  This session includes a short demo where a Windows share is configured and used to store data. 

IBM Tape Technology

On May 21, 1952, IBM announced the IBM 726 Tape Unit with the IBM 701 Defense Calculator, marking the transition from punched card calculators to electronic computers.  Since then, IBM has initiated many significant innovations in linear tape storage and has been an industry leader in setting standards for tape interchange.  This session will describe the IBM tape innovations that have brought a wave of increased functionality, improved performance, reduced service time, decreased necessary floor space, and simplified tape path.  The session will also include an overview of the main IBM Tape Library products.

Intro to Storage Virtualization with IBM SAN Volume Controller

Storage virtualization addresses the increasing cost and complexity in data storage management by shifting storage management intelligence from individual SAN disk subsystem controllers into the network through a virtualization cluster of nodes.  IBM SAN Volume Controller is a storage virtualization solution designed to simplify operations, improve utilization of assets,  improve productivity, and to enable the IT infrastructure to be more flexible and responsive to changing business needs.  This solution also improves application availability by enabling non-disruptive data migration between disparate disk storage.