IBM releases problem solvers galore

IBM TODAY ANNOUNCED endless reams of new storage hardware, software and services which are to be launched immediately.

These new services aim to build the world’s strongest information infrastructure systems... ever.

These picks of the day are supposed to help businesses, governments and others to deal with their data problems – specifically to transform static data managed in silos into more dynamic information that is accessible by individuals wherever they go in a cloud computing environment.

Data centres are apparently struggling with the increased information management demands caused by consumers wants and needs to ‘take their information’ with them.

Apparently, as consumers, we now have to worry about an ‘information footprint’ – along with everything on which we seem to leave our size twelve indentations.

In response to this quandary IBM today delivered critical elements for an information infrastructure as part of its New Enterprise Data Center strategy – these elements focus on the availability, compliance and retention, and security pain points for clients as they re-design their data centers.

More than 30 new and upgraded products and services are being introduced across the IBM portfolio to meet these ‘critical’ needs.

IBM explain that today’s infrastructure is not designed to efficiently manage the estimated two billion people who will be on the Web by 2011 nor the expected one trillion connected objects including cars, appliances, cameras, roadways, pipelines – comprising “the Internet of things.”

To meet these needs, IBM announced a series of products and offerings enabling Internet Scale Availability.

Leading analysts have also stated that half of data centres will run out of power or space sometime in 2008 - to combat this IBM announced a series of products and offerings enabling data center consolidation and retention. µ