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IBM Global Financing
Financing that supports throughout the technology life cycle
IBM Global Financing can help you accelerate your acquisitions of the latest technology
and services, and help make your IT and information infrastructure projects more afford-
able by providing competitive, customized financing of your storage, server, PC, software
and services investments. In addition, IBM Global Financing can also enable you to reduce
technology obsolescence risk and handle planning for disposal and replacement of your IT
hardware assets. With single-source, customized, competitive financing of the entire life
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ongoing operating costs.
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IBM Global Services for System Storage and Storage
Networking
Data Storage Services from IBM can help you achieve business objectives by creating
cost-effective data storage solutions that address the requirements of key business appli-
cations. These solutions can support multiple platforms and product vendors, helping to
provide enhanced protection for critical business data, increased asset utilization, availabil-
ity and reliability levels with reduced management costs.
IBM Global Services, as the leading data storage services provider, brings best practices
from its thousands of customer engagements to work with your employees to integrate
new solutions and technology with your business and IT needs. IBM offers a comprehen-
sive portfolio of data storage services including:
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Analysis of enterprise information needs and environment
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Defined enterprise
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wide storage strategies
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Quantified business benefits
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Backup/restore and business continuity planning
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Performance and capacity planning
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Enterprise security architecture
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Storage migration and consolidation
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Networked storage architecture design
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SAN configuration and integration services
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Proof of concept, validation and certification
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Implementation, testing and migration services
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Education and training
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Installation, relocation, cabling and site preparation
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Business and application recovery services
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Systems monitoring and management
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Managed Storage Services
IBM Global Services has a track record in offering services for open and mainframe stor-
age, data migration, installation and support services for IBM and non-IBM environments.
Some examples are:
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IBM Storage Strategy Assessment assists with the vision and strategy, assessment,
architecture and conceptual designs to help customers optimize their storage infrastruc-
ture to new architectures.
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IBM Planning Services for 3494 Automated Tape Library and Virtual Tape Server can
help improve tape storage management and gain control of an often expanding library
of tapes.
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IBM Operational Support Services for Tivoli Storage Manager assists customers in the
planning and implementation of storage management software.
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IBM Managed Storage Services offer scalable, cost-effective storage capacity, manage-
ment and backup/restore services on a usage basis.
More information about IBM storage services can be found at
ibm.com
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