management, data protection and disaster recovery. Although the
ST9985V can provide a platform for building solutions across virtually
all vertical markets, the Financial Services, Telecom, Utilities,
Transportation, Healthcare, Federal, State and Local Governments and
Pharmaceutical industries provide especially good targets because of
their storage growth and need for high performance, high availability
storage solutions.
Q. What business value/benefit does the ST9985V bring to a customer?
A. 1- Reduced costs through storage consolidation/aggregation and
increased management efficiencies
2- Ensures QOS with Virtual Partitioning (Virtual Storage Machines)by
removing the contention for valuable storage resources
3- Significantly improved service levels and lower costs associated
with business continuity deployment and practices
4- ST9900 Dynamic Provisioning software reduces TCO, eliminates
application service interruptions, simplifies storage
administration and reduces power and cooling requirements
5- Higher return on investment by extending the life of current assets
and enabling more efficient implementation new technologies
Q. What are the top problems addressed by the ST9985V?
A. 1- Difficulty managing storage growth while keeping costs down due to
low storage utilization, unplanned interruptions for capacity
upgrades.
2- Existing storage doesn't scale due to performance, capacity, and
security limitations.
3- Planning to consolidate multiple storage systems and need to
maintain application isolation and Quality of Service
4- Difficulty meeting application availability targets due to service
interruptions from adding additional storage capacity.
5- Inability to rapidly respond to changing user and application
storage needs
6- Difficulty managing storage complexity and cost from multiple
heterogeneous storage systems.
7- Inability to transparently migrate aging data to lower-cost storage
technologies.
Q. How does storage consolidation differ between the ST9970/ST9980 Series
and ST9985V systems?
A. With major improvements in scalability and performance, customers can
consolidate much more capacity onto a ST9985V. Then, add
aggregation to the equation with attachment of other storage devices
and the ST9985V takes consolidation to the next level --
aggregation. A ST9985V presents all storage attached to it as
if it were its own and makes data migration/movement a much easier
process.
Q. How does the ST9985V provide a base for storage consolidation and
investment protection?
A. For customers with investments in older, but still functional storage,
the ST9985V's unique ability to attach and virtualize external storage
delivers operational savings while enabling consolidation/aggregation,
migration of critical data to higher performance storage, and
repurposing and extending the useful life of existing systems to
protect investments.
With ST9985V's external FICON support for mainframe customers (late
CY2007) will enable them to take advantage of storage virtualization
for their existing FICON environments. The ST9985V is able to provide
the industry's only complete mainframe virtualization solution.
Q. How does the ST9985V support a tiered storage infrastructure?
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