IBM's sweeping initiative to address major shift in world’s data flow - UPDATED

Tony Austin
Tuesday, 09 September 2008 12:00

Opinion and Analysis

Today's information infrastructure suffers from massive inefficiency in both duplicate sources of the same information and excessive energy costs. Leading analysts have stated that 50 percent of data centers will run out of power or space sometime in 2008 and the energy consumed by U.S. data centers will grow from 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent of the nation’s total energy consumption over the next five years.

To meet these needs, IBM announced a series of products and offerings enabling data center consolidation and retention.

Another area addressed by today's IBM announcements is security. Ensuring that the information in a data center is secure and being accessed only by those authorized has become a top concern for all data centers – large and small.  A recent data center hack cost one company more than $60 million dollars in damages through theft of data and unauthorized use of credit card information of consumers.

Meanwhile, the availability and authentication of data, from massive corporate and government databases to the 1 billion people expected to be using the mobile web this year, is a key priority.

More than 30 new products and services from IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM Software Group and IBM Research were announced today, supporting the information infrastructure pillar of IBM’s New Enterprise Data Center strategy.

Coupled with new announcements from IBM’s Global Technology Services business, IBM aligns critical storage usage to a clients’ direct business priorities, helps them reduce the risk, cost, complexity and planning efforts required for large data migrations, and delivers strategic IBM design and implementation services to target client pain-points.

For a full listing of all the products and services announced today, please visit the IBM Information Infrastructure Product Showcase.

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