IBM Data and Information Management Services

Form IBM Corp., IBM Data and Information Management Services – intelligent storage service catalog provides an advanced storage management solution that helps reduce storage provisioning time from hours to minutes while implementing a standardized, policy-based approach to storage allocation.

This service helps you reduce costs by preventing over-provisioning of storage and reducing the skill-level required to manage your storage resource allocation. Storage resources are efficiently deployed because the business value, requirements, and service delivery methods are clearly defined.

The service includes the following features:

• Users can choose data types from a template and build a project storage request.
• All storage requests are automatically optimized for tier placement and size.
• The service helps to reduce capacity management issues due to ad hoc, last minute, or inaccurate storage resource requests.
• Storage requests automatically show required services and architecture.
• New services and architecture can be added.
• Updates are automatically reflected in future requests.
• The service catalog is automatically referenced for each request.

Planned availability date

• January 4, 2011