Originally posted by: TonyPearson
This week, some of my coworkers are out at
[
VMworld 2009] in San Francisco. IBM is a platinum sponsor, and is the leading reseller of VMware software. Here is the floor plan for our IBM booth there:
- Virtual Data Center in a Box & Virtual Networking on
IBM BladeCenter®
- IBM & VMware Joint Collaboration on Power Monitoring
- “Always on IT” Business Continuity Solution
- IBM System Storage™ XIV®
The
[IBM XIV Storage System] is a revolutionary, easily managed, open disk system, designed to meet today’s ongoing IT challenges. This system now supports VMware 4.0 and extends the benefits of virtualization to your storage system, enabling easy provisioning and self-tuning after hardware changes. Its unique grid-based architecture represents the next generation of high-end storage and delivers outstanding performance, scalability, reliability and features, along with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.
- IBM Storage Solutions with VMware
Featured products include: The new IBM System Storage DS5020 , Virtual Disk solutions with IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, and IBM System Storage ProtecTIER Data Deduplication solutions.
Server virtualization with VMware vSphere offers significant benefits to an organization, including increased asset utilization, simplified management and faster server provisioning. In addition to these benefits, VMware enables business agility and business continuity with more advanced features such as VMotion, high availability, fault tolerance, and Site Recovery Manager that all require dependable high-performance shared storage. Adding storage solutions --including virtualized storage-- from IBM delivers complementary benefits to your information infrastructure that extend and enhance the benefits of VMware vSphere while increasing overall reliability, availability and performance to help you transform into a dynamic infrastructure. IBM can provide the right storage solution for your environment and requirements. Our solutions help maximize efficiency with lower costs and provide affordable, scalable storage solutions that help you solve your particular needs.
Stop by to learn how our the exciting new storage solutions can help optimize VMware including self-encrypting storage, automated, affordable disaster recovery with VMware SRM easier and faster provisioning of storage for virtual machines, dramatically improved storage utilization with ProtecTIER deduplication, and how the DS5000 has lower costs Total Cost of Acquisition (TCA) than typical competitors.
- IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud
- IBM CloudBurst™
- IBM System x® iDataPlex™: Get More on the Floor
- Virtual Client Solutions from IBM
IBM also is sponsoring some breakout sessions:
- Leverage Storage Solutions for a Smarter Infrastructure
- Simplify and Optimize with IBM N series
- IBM SAN Volume Controller: Virtualized Storage for Virtual Servers
- XIV: Storage Reinvented for today's dynamic world
Wish I was there, looks like a lot of good information!
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