IBM Products for Storage Management of 'Big Data'

IBM has announced new storage management systems as a part of the company's 2010 lineup of 'workload-optimized' systems. The company, in its news release on PR Newswire claims the new storage products are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of storing vast amounts of data while making it easier for clients to apply analytics and gain insight from the data.

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"Clients are looking for tiered storage systems that help them prioritize critical data -- like purchasing trends or energy use data that feed analytics engines -- and manage it differently than secondary data that isn't likely to be needed right away, like data that needs to be stored due to government regulations such as HIPAA, for example.

"IBM's DS8700 disk storage system will now include a new technology invented by IBM Research that can make it easier and more economical to manage data in tiers. IBM's System Storage Easy Tier® feature uses ongoing performance monitoring to move only the most active data to faster solid-state drives (SSDs), which can eliminate the need for manual storage tier policies and help reduce costs. By automatically placing clients' most critical data on SSDs, Easy Tier provides quick access to data so it can be analyzed for insight as needed to provide competitive advantage."

Read the News Release at PR Newswire