‘Storage Hypervisors’ – IBM Proposes A New Industry Term

Storage Hypervisor Debate Highlights

• Improving resource utilisation is central to reducing data centre costs
• SAN and NAS have improved virtualisation, but typically within a single vendor’s range
• VMware has been highly successful in lowering server spending by heterogeneous applying virtualisation
• Virtualisation platforms, management software and application across multiple vendors’ kit required
• IBM’s own approach includes SVC and TPC – it can virtualise and manage most other vendors’ storage
• We may need a software-only vendor (as VMware is in servers) for storage hypervisors to take off

LV 1871 Uses IBM Virtualisation For Consolidation, Cost Savings And Productivity Improvement

LV 1871 And IBM Virtualisation Highlights Q211

• LV 1871 is a medium sized mutual insurer which has consolidated, improved services and reduced costs through advanced virtualisation
• IBM has simplified the way it talks about virtualisation, outlining a series of small to large options with associated benefits
• Claims advantages in the number and cost of virtual machines running on its x86 and RISC servers
• Has learnt from decades of experience in virtualisation from mainframe, through Unix to x86 and Cloud
• Believes IBM will be a fierce competitor with the likes of Dell and HP as users invest in virtualisation and Cloud