IBM - Packaged Demonstrations
Data Management
Looking at improving storage utilisation, enabling intelligent capacity planning and helping you manage more storage with the same staff. We also consider supporting high application availability and detecting failed backup and archive by file, using TotalStorage Productivity Centre (TPC) for Data.
Key features:
- Providing enterprise wide reports on capacity via rolebased management
- Assisting with data classification, ILM assessments and ITIL storage practices
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Centre for Data V3.2.pdf
Storage Infrastructure Management
How to configure multiple storage devices from a single console and monitor and track the performance of SAN attached Storage Management Interface Specification(SMI-S) compliant storage devices, through the use of TPC for Disk and Fabric.
Key features:
- Enable proactive performance management by setting performance thresholds based on performance metrics and the generation of alerts
- Simplify the task of SAN management and configuration
- Maintain SAN availability
- Monitor SAN performance
- Improve SAN ROI
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Centre for Fabric.pdf
Storage Virtualisation
How to combine storage capacity from multiple vendors for centralised management, increase storage utilisation by providing more flexible access to storage assets and improve administrator productivity by enabling management of pooled storage volumes from a single interface.
Key features:
- Insulate host applications from changes to the physical storage infrastructure
- Enable a tiered storage environment to match the cost of storage to the value of data
- Look at advanced copy services across subsystems from multiple vendors
IBM SAN Volume Controller packaged demo.pdf
IBM System p Advance Power Virtualisation (APV)
Demonstrate server consolidation
- Analyse under-utilised servers enabled by APV fine tuning granularity capabilities
- Examine mixed workloads enabled by APV LPAR, dynamic LPAR and Shared Pool flexibility features
- Assess applications with varied and dynamic resource requirements and enabled by APV partition load manager and on-demand capabilities
Demonstrate rapid deployment
- Test rapid deployment of new workloads by APV profiles and management processes
- Consider greater exploitation and fault avoidance of I/O devices enabled by APV Virtual I/O capabilities
- Examine lower cost, higher performance interconnect capabilities via APV Virtual LAN support
- Application development and testing in secure domains enabled by APV partition isolation and security features
- Support multiple operating system environments for testing, migration or application optimisation with APV multi-OS support
IBM System p Advance Power5 Virtualisation
Backup and Recovery
Look at Tivoli Storage Manager, Extended Edition and Express installations.
IBM Software
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can benefit from a range of Application Integration and Demonstration services with IBM Software, operating systems and multiple hardware platforms. This capability allows the ISV to replicate their customer environment providing proof of concept and benchmarking to help shorten sales cycles.
- Application Development and Testing
- Application Optimisation
- Application Hardware Integration
The demonstration facility gives access to the following IBM Software;
- Informix
- DB2
- Websphere
ISVs have access to technical professionals who will supplement the ISVs existing application and operating system skills. Remote dial-up demonstration facilities can be arranged to allow ISVs to leverage the facility without the cost and inconvenience of sending technical staff out of the office.