July 28, 2015
As businesses continue to collect, process, use, and store more data than ever before, the costs of data protection can skyrocket. But a recent IBM white paper offers “Ten ways to save money with IBM data protection”. As an IBM Premier Partner, ITS can help you implement these ten key ways to save money without compromising the security of your organization’s data:
1. Data Deduplication - Deduplication (or “dedupe”) significantly reduces storage requirements by eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. While many backup servers have limited resources for dedupe processing, IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager can deduplicate up to 20 TB of new data each day.
2. Incremental Backups - Incremental backups save time, storage space, and bandwidth usage by only replacing the data that has changed since your last backup.
3. Flexible Deployment Options - As your organization grows, flexible deployment options will let you choose how much of your data protection infrastructure you want to own. A combination of Cloud and appliance-based solutions can reduce your costs while enabling you to switch systems quickly if the need arises.
4. Simplified Administration - By using a robust automated backup system, you allow your IT department to focus on new strategic business initiatives rather than worrying about managing your backup systems.
5. Cloud Data -Cloud data protection allows for backup, disaster recovery,and business continuity while improving security, usage accounting and multi-tenancy. One research group estimated that cloud computing could save U.S. businesses as much as $625 billion in IT costs over the next five years.*
6. Massive Scalability - As your organization grows, so will the amount of data you’ll need to back up. Storage management systems, such as the Tivoli Storage Manager, allow your organization to consolidate your backups onto a fraction of the servers other solutions demand.
7. Open Standards - Open standards help reduce costs to your organization by:
And when it comes time to upgrade your systems, open standards keep your options open.
8. Single-Vendor Solutions - Choosing a single vendor that offers complete IT solutions for your organization (virtual, physical, and cloud environments) enables your IT staff to spend less time managing multiple vendors and reduces compatibility issues between disparate systems.
9. Trusted Partner - When it comes to protecting your data, you want to choose a company that has a history of providing trustworthy and reliable service. With over fifty-five years of combined IBM Business Partner experience among senior management alone, ITS offers wisdom and focus on problem solving and information technology solutions unmatched in the industry.
10. Infrastructure Financing - As data protection solutions can incur considerable up-front costs to implement, financing your project can provide your organization with predictable payments over time.
To learn how ITS can help your organization implement a rock-solid data protection strategy, Contact Us today for more information.
Thanks for reading,
Rob Connary, President - COO
