IBM sees virtualisation as next step in evolution of data management
WITH MASSIVE amounts of storage on the horizon for every business that generates digital information, simplifying the way it is handled will become extremely important, according to IBM.
Kelvin Li, zSeries manager for storage at IBM in Hong Kong, said the key to this would be infrastructure simplification.
'Viewed in the broadest sense, infrastructure simplification represents an optimised view and evolutionary approach, or the next logical step beyond basic server consolidation,' Mr Li said.
'From an IT perspective, infrastructure simplification leverages existing assets, enables business process integration, reduces costs, increases efficiency and moves to better synchronise the design of IT infrastructure with the design of business process.'
Mr Li said it was a critical part of business today that applications stayed up and running, and that people had access to the data being created, shared and stored.
IBM's Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and virtualisation technologies were created specifically to make the management of all this information easier.