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Abstract
With data growth showing no signs of slowing, it is imperative that organizations improve their storage efficiency and reduce administration complexity. The need for economic and operational efficiencies transcends all organizations. Commercial businesses, non-profits, government departments, and large and small enterprises are all striving to make the most of what they have. This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide describes how to use the IBM SmartCloud® Virtual Storage Center to integrate your existing storage technologies into a virtual storage center.
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With data growth showing no signs of slowing, it is imperative that organizations improve their storage efficiency and reduce administration complexity. The need for economic and operational efficiencies is common to all organizations. Commercial businesses, non-profits, government departments, and large and small enterprises are all striving to make the most of what they have. This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide describes how to use the IBM SmartCloud® Virtual Storage Center (VSC) to integrate your existing storage technologies into a virtual storage center.
The IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center provides a cost-effective method to integrate existing storage technologies into a storage cloud. The IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center has three central characteristics that are key to harnessing today’s massive volumes of data for business insight and success. It is efficient by design, self-optimizing, and cloud agile, as depicted in Figure 1 and described in this guide.
Figure 1. The characteristics of IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
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With the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center solution, you can realize all of the following benefits without a disruptive "remove and replace" of existing storage systems:
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