Servers, Networks and Storage Virtualization Solutions

With IBM Spectrum Virtualize, you can:

• Improve the data value: Information storage cost is reduced by increasing system utilization, using data compression, which accelerates applications to obtain better results.
• Increase data security: Helps protect data and allows a full high-availability strategy, including uninterrupted data and applications mobility, and full disaster recovery protection.
• Improve data simplicity: Allows a data strategy independent of the hardware infrastructure selection with integrated functionality and coherent management of the heterogeneous storage.
• Support new opportunities: Allow companies to use the software in x86-based servers, offering new opportunities for hybrid-cloud and private-cloud implementations.
• Enable new services: For service providers, IBM Spectrum Virtualize software allows providing new offerings of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to IBM SAN Virtual Control, IBM Storwize and multi-brand heterogeneous storage users.

To transform security with VMware offers advantages, including the following:

• An omnipresent software layer in the terminals and in the applications infrastructure.
• Maximum visibility and context of the interaction between users and applications.
• Adapting of controls and security policies to the users and applications they are protecting.
• Capacity to insert additional third-party security services for greater intelligent protection.

In recent years, the leakage of high-profile data that set at risk confidential data has continued to increase. Although the leakages were achieved in different ways, most of them exposed the fundamental weakness of the perimeter-centered network security model: once the perimeter is violated, it is difficult to avoid threats to move laterally (horizontally) throughout the entire datacenter. These attacks demonstrated that investing in perimeter firewalls is not enough and that it is necessary to invest more to achieve horizontal traffic security (server to server).

Datacenter protection with VMware NSX

For a large number of companies, perimeter firewalls represent the first and last line of defense against undesired intruders. Several companies worldwide, have discovered that this security strategy is a totally-insufficient protection against today’s increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. For the datacenter security to be up to the modern business requirements, organizations are using VMware NSX to virtualize their networks and are taking advantage of an innovative datacenter security strategy named micro-segmentation.

Hyper-convergent infrastructure-based solutions allow to:

• Leverage the most recent technologies as they are available, instead of having to wait for prolonged upgrade cycles.
• Eliminate isolated components and reduce the number of hardware infrastructure components.
• Upgrade with little or no downtime and with changes imperceptible to final users.
• Enable detailed, non-disruptive scalability both horizontal and vertical.
• Make implementation and maintenance at ease and in control with an integrated software component.
• Obtain protection that includes inflation (for example, three years after purchasing a product, it continues being current); you only have to do a hardware upgrade.

Hyperconvergence is much more than Hardware and Software:

• Radically simple: VMware supplies a software stack integrated with optimized administration from a unique visualization panel.
• The lowest cost: VMware offers prices that are in function of your growth, so that you only pay for what you need, when you need it.
• The highest performance: VMware guarantees the coherent performance of each application, through the availability of enterprise-class, and fault-tolerance embedded.
• Ready for any application, at any scale: VMware gives versatility in a rapidly changing world, with solutions designed for the current and future applications.