IBM storage solutions for your data.

Every enterprise or business has data in its DNA – which is being generated in substantial volumes by people, their devices, vehicles, business transactions, and more. But the challenge isn’t in creating data, it’s how businesses react to ongoing security and compliance obligations as much as meeting cost-efficiencies.

CSI’s enterprise data storage solutions prioritise cyber resilience and encompass high-levels of protection in sophisticated storage strategies.

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As an IBM Platinum Business Partner, CSI has decades of experience working with IBM Storage solutions, from complex cloud storage to tape drives, plus backup and managed services.

CSI’s highly accredited specialists help clients design storage and data protection strategies, optimise current platforms and take advantage of the cloud.

 

Your options for IBM Storage solutions with CSI include:

  • Helix Protect managed services for backup and recovery
  • All-flash storage solutions
  • Physical tape and virtual tape library systems
  • Air-gapped and immutable storage
  • Cloud storage

 

 

 

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Cyber Security with Flash Storage Gets You the Best of Both Worlds.

Achieve high performance at an affordable cost without compromising security. As an IBM Platinum Business Partner, CSI’s expertise in storage and data protection  can help your business prepare for data growth and implement best-practice solutions that fit effortlessly into your operations.

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Looking for container-native storage?

Container-native design patterns and deployment methods are rapidly becoming an effective standard for agile, continuous IT service delivery in the enterprise. However, adoption of cloud-native, containerised applications at scale has been hindered by the complexities and limitations associated with legacy storage and data management
solutions.

CSI is working closely with IBM to help our clients get access to the data they need without the complexities of traditional silo-based data architectures and delivering the qualities of service, security, and resiliency required.

If you need an integrated data orchestration service platform designed to meet the demanding structured and unstructured storage needs of today’s DevOps containerised environments, then look no further than IBM Storage Fusion.

Introducing IBM Storage Fusion. 

IBM Storage Fusion enables your teams to optimise data operations, deliver data on demand from any source to the application architecture efficiently and promote strong security and resiliency of your data estate.

As a Red Hat OpenShift based solution, it includes all of the elements necessary for a production-ready environment that could be in place within 30 days.

IBM Storage Fusion is available in Software Defined, Hyper Converged, and IBM Power Platform options that best deliver the promises of flexibility and portability.

Additionally, all the other elements, such as backup and recovery, high availability, security, orchestration, and much more, operate the same in every location you are running production workloads, plus it can all be managed from a single console.

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What Are My STORAGE Options?

from Tape to Cloud

Data storage and recovery strategies must consider cost, length of backup cycles, speed of recovery, retention periods, data centre footprint and sustainability. From physical tape – as relevant today as ever – to the cloud, organisations have more options to consider than ever. When technologies are correctly selected, implemented and managed, this is a great advantage, but deploying the wrong solutions and services can be costly – and expose data to risk.


Outcomes-based Data Protection with IBM Storage Solutions

Rather than a technology-first approach, effective data protection starts with the desired outcomes – and different systems have different outcomes. For each category of data, what recovery points make sense? What performance is needed? What compliance regulations must be met? Once the outcomes are defined, technology can be selected, and as importantly, operational services can be designed. Selecting the right solution and the administrative effort required to achieve the outcomes can challenge already-stretched IT teams.

WHY CHOOSE CSI

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CSI’s experts have over 900 years of combined experience supporting and managing IBM Storage.

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CSI’s history of innovation has earned us credibility as a reliable, trusted partner of choice around the world.

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Helix Protect Managed Service

CSI’s Helix Protect is a versatile managed service that takes advantage of best-of-breed technologies and can be easily scaled to suit specific data protection outcomes. CSI works with organisations to identify critical systems for fast recovery, design full data protection schedules and deliver reporting, monitoring and analytics across their data estate. Helix Protect includes regular disaster recovery testing.

All-Flash IBM Storage

For enterprise-class data protection, CSI implements IBM FlashSystem storage technology, including IBM Spectrum Virtualize software-defined storage. This data management software delivers “six nines” (99.9999%) data availability with no single point of failure, enterprise-proven control software, and non-disruptive maintenance.

IBM Storage Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

VTL systems deliver the improved performance of disk storage without having to change existing tape backup regimes. CSI’s innovative software-based VTL solution runs in a Linux LPAR on an IBM Power System together with FlashSystem storage to create a cost-effective, high-performance and flexible alternative to tape. The VTL only uses resources when backups are running – utilising Power Enterprise Pools to share processor and memory capacity means that at all other times, the VTL resources are available for other functions.

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Tape-Based IBM Storage

One of the oldest data storage media offers an inexpensive data protection solution that is virtually impervious to cyber-attacks. Tapes can simply be removed from the network creating a physical “air gap” between the data and potential hackers. New IBM LTO9 technology offers up to a 50% increase in storage density and 11% better transfer rates from the previous tape generation.

Safeguarded Copy With IBM Storage

Safeguarded Copy creates isolated, immutable FlashCopy snapshots of data that cannot be compromised, deliberately or by accident. When data is required from the backup volume a new copy is created keeping the immutable volume secure. By using FlashSystem storage to retain the immutable copies, very short recovery times of critical data can be achieved.

IBM Cloud Storage

IBM Cloud storage services offer scalable, secure, and cost-effective data storage that supports legacy and cloud-native workloads. The IBM Cloud can provide object, block and file storage that can be optimised as requirements change. Enhanced governance policies can be enforced across all cloud storage environments.

IBM Cloud for VM Replication

Most IBM Power Systems implementations include adjacent services running on industry-standard servers. CSI’s Helix Cyber Resiliency Service creates native format copies of a VM in the IBM Cloud. VM replicas are fully-functional, so when a disaster strikes, restoring service is simply a matter of switching to the VM replicas. Recovery Time Objectives can be as low as a few minutes.

CSI’s expertise in migrating storage to IBM FlashSystem V9000 was invaluable. We have taken a huge step forward in storage capacity, I/O performance and resourcing strategic projects.

Ian Ward, Senior Infrastructure Manager, Domestic & General Read more

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Whether you are thinking of upgrading away from legacy tech, unsure about change, or want to understand how an investment in IBM storage can benefit your business, we can help. Speak with one of our experts today to find out how to unlock more from IBM storage across your organisation.

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