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Delivering Higher Value with

IBM Storage

IBM Partners Share Their Experiences

IBM Storage Partnerships and Alliances

IBM partners with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to deliver optimized solutions that deliver higher customer value.

IBM Storage extends the value of software defined storage through integration with ISV applications and infrastructure solution providers.

• Solution areas include: Cloud, Big Data & Analytics, Social & Mobile

• Benefits include: Improved data economics

Accelerated business value

New levels of storage efficiency

Increased performance, flexibility and scalability2

Hear Directly from our ISV Partners

• Video testimonials are highlighted here around systems of record, systems of engagement and new workloads

• Includes a sample of IBM Storage ISV solutions with:

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The Need

• Deliver a cost-effective, high performance and scalable VDI solution

• Deploy persistent and stateless virtual desktops, simply and economically

• Offer virtual desktop users the same or better performance and experience as traditional PCs

The Solution• Atlantis ILIO optimization software • IBM FlashSystem storage system

The Benefits

• Better-than-PC cost and user experience helps increase adoption of virtual desktops

• Better-than-PC performance as projects scale while reducing storage requirements

• Proven, scalable platform backed by industry-standard benchmark testing –scales to tens of thousands of users

“…performance of the joint solution

with IBM and Atlantis is actually six

times faster than a MacBook Air with an

Apple SSD...”Seth Knox, Vice President of Products, Atlantis Computing Link to video

Link to website

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The Need

• Manage the exponential growth of Microsoft SharePoint unstructured data

• Reduce accumulating storage costs and optimize platform performance for SharePoint users

The Solution• AvePoint DocAve Storage Manager• IBM Spectrum Scale

The Benefits

• Optimized SQL Server storage and increased performance by removing unstructured data from SQL databases

• Improved management, efficiency and data economics

• Leverages highly scalable software defined storage with automatic policy-based tiering to manage data growth and costs

“Some key differentiators with our

joint solution really involves improved

data economics, improved storage

management, improved utilization, to

overcome some of the limitations for

the SharePoint database sizes.” Terence Orpilla, Product Manager,AvePoint Link to video

Link to website

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The Need

• Deploy a reliable, high performance analytics infrastructure

• Address big data, in-database analytics, and platform grid processing

• Deliver sustained throughput and eliminate I/O bottlenecks

The Solution• SAS software• IBM Storage offerings

• IBM XIV, IBM DS8000, IBM FlashSystem, IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS)

The Benefits

• High performance, scalable solutions for I/O intensive workloads

• Significantly faster high-volume data processing with improved server utilization

• Storage that is engineered for big data and analytics and can be configured to help eliminate bottlenecks

“Bank of America had SAS jobs running

over 90 hours. They changed their storage

architecture to IBM XIV, which brought

processing down to under three hours...” Dana Rafiee, U.S. Managing Director, Destiny Corporation Link to video

Link to website

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The Need

• Enable enterprise users to access information across all devices with a scalable, cost-effective solution

• Mitigate potential security problems related to data leaving an enterprise’s perimeter

The Solution

• ownCloud Enterprise File Sync and Share• IBM Spectrum Scale

The Benefits

• Secure, highly scalable infrastructure that can support thousands of enterprise users

• Cost efficient solution that offers flexible storage options and delivery models – on premise or in the cloud

• Predictability in deploying infrastructure helps manage cost

“…we frequently see clients who need

to deploy enterprise file sync and share

across hundreds of thousands of users. I

cannot imagine being able to deploy

that without infrastructure like the kind

that IBM Spectrum Scale provides us.” Shyam KamadolliVP, Business Development, ownCloud Link to video

Link to website

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The Need

• Improve granularity of virtual machine (VM) management in the storage layer

• Improve storage management, capacity management and provisioning

• Deploy an integrated solution that can easily scale and exploit new Virtual Volumes (VVol) capabilities

The Solution• VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes • IBM XIV

The Benefits

• VM management granularity boosts efficiency and lowers cost

• Automated storage services for multi-tenant cloud environments

• Improved storage utilization and elasticity for easy scaling

• Collaborative development of VVol delivers higher value with IBM as a design partner

“…Virtual Volumes is a great piece of the

software-defined storage puzzle,...and

IBM XIV does it very well and provides

the answer to that puzzle…”Suzy Visvanathan, Senior Product Manager, Storage Infrastructure Team, VMware

Link to video

Link to website

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