IBM provides a new Information On Demand Infrastructure Community of Practice within IBM Global Technology Services (GTS). Established to build exchange and enable reuse of Information on Demand knowledge and assets, it helps develop new capabilities and share leading-edge thinking across IBM’s software, business consulting, systems and Research organizations. These new IBM services help clients plan, design and deploy a resilient infrastructure to deliver Information on Demand, while reducing risk and providing higher returns on IT investments.
The Global Technology Services include:
Information On Demand Infrastructure Implementation services
A combination of best practices and methodologies to quickly and cost-effectively deploy a highly-available, reliable dynamic data warehouse, including all of the relevant components. These services allow clients to make better informed decisions with less risk, while providing a faster path to a return on their investment.
Storage Optimization and Integration services
Enable the design, deployment and operation of an efficient storage and data infrastructure. These services help to better integrate existing storage environments and improve utilization and management. This includes methodologies and software to enable organizations to better understand their storage environments through an enterprise-wide assessment with reporting on storage utilization, costs, and legal and IT compliance to help customers achieve operational efficiency. These services include the portfolio of assets and services from IBM’s recent acquisition of NovusCG, market leading provider of storage optimization, storage resource management, and process services on all major storage platforms.
Data Mobility services
Help clients establish a simple and unified approach to managing and moving data on-line — over any distance, regardless of server platform or storage vendor. These services reduce operational risk without impacting performance. These services include data mobility software assets from IBM’s recent acquisition of Softek – the market leader in data mobility software.
Infrastructure Services for Compliance Warehouse
Provide assistance with infrastructure consulting, design, and implementation for information and enterprise content management, and archiving activities. The services, provided by IBM Global Business Services and GTS, are created to enable enterprise wide enablement of structured and unstructured information flow, access, and control for compliance, litigation, and business needs including long term preservation. The services include gathering of retention requirements, information classification, policy and governance definition and enforcement.
