Adjusting to new ways of paying for storage

Changing market conditions and IT strategies are quickly changing the way businesses use and pay for data storage. And hybrid cloud adoption has led to growing demand for utility-based IT as opposed to legacy cash purchases and leases.

As a result, many tech companies now offer elastic pricing models depending on what storage capacity is used. The downside for IT teams is with so many new models available, it can be a minefield trying to figure out the best plan for your budget.

Check out this 3 minute video to find out how IBM can solve some of the dilemma.

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The two most important metrics for sustainable storage

When considering how sustainable an #ITstorage offering is, the two most important metrics are the capacity density and how much performance you can get for the energy that you use.

Check out this fun video to discover why the IBM FlashSystem family are the market leader for Sustainability.

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As IBM Silver Partners, Complete IT Systems have the skills and resources to help your business implement the best solutions for the modern workplace.

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Improved storage performance and new capabilities

Our customer was initially looking at renewing the support on their existing storage provider, as it was due to expire.

The issue that first became apparent was the fact the vendor was withdrawing support for the current arrays within the next three months – which would have meant the leaving the client unsupported. With it being short notice and that we were approaching the financial year end, we had to ensure a cost-effective solution in quick time this it wasn’t a budgeted project. Here’s how we helped them.

The solution

Complete IT Systems in partnership with our partners IBM and TD Synnex worked together to scope and build a suitable replacement for the existing storage environment. With support from our technical teams, we proposed a FlashSystem 5200, which is IBM’s densest storage system, within the FlashSystem portfolio. This offers the customer benefits such as cyber resilience capabilities, immutability and FlashCore modules (IBM’s NVMe patent drives).

The result

All-in-all, this gave customer new levels of infrastructure performance, and new capabilities. We also provided the customer with finance options to enable them to install the Storage array sooner rather than later and over the term of the agreement. This has saved the company money compared to continual support renewals.

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What’s storage’s role in cyber resilience?

Data’s role as a transformational business asset continues to grow. This article helps you understand its value further, and some insights in how to protect it.

Thanks to increasing investments in application development; modern DevOps practices; and heightened business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning demands, nearly all businesses are accelerating data creation and usage. They are also scaling the number of locations that leverage data. This proliferation of data combined with mounting pressure to accelerate operations has led to an increase in the complexity of both IT infrastructure and IT operations.

Such factors put organisations and their infrastructures at great risk of experiencing malicious attacks, human error, and negligent behaviour. Unfortunately, legacy strategies cannot adequately ensure that business operations will continue during and after these types of incidents. Companies can try to weave together capabilities in an attempt to prevent attacks and other breaches, but functional gaps, poor integration, and management complexity make meeting security objectives time-consuming and difficult.

Changing organisational mindsets from prevention to incident preparation—e.g., implementing storage solutions with built-in cyber resilience—is key to safeguarding critical data assets and being able to quickly respond to and recover from ransomware and other cyberattacks.

So what’s next?

This analyst report from ESG outlines how to shift from Cybersecurity to Cyber Resilience with IBM.

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Get a FREE cyber resilience assessment

In the modern era, data is everything, and everything is data. Would your business be able to thrive, or even survive if you lost everything?

Absolute resiliency or security is absolutely impossible, so you need to have a strategy for cyber resilience in place. Doing so gives you the ability to continuously deliver intended outcomes despite any adverse event or attacks. This makes doing everything you can to prevent downtime and attacks, plus minimise the impact and potential loss when an event does happen all the more vital.

Building your cyber resilience strategy

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Resiliency Assessment provides a bridge mechanism to assess your current state of resiliency. It helps to identify gaps, strengths, and weaknesses against best practice requirements based on the NIST CSF. With references to other industry-recognised standards & frameworks such as ISO, COBIT, ISA, Council on Cyber Security, etc, all bases are covered.

Outcomes

By completing the Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool (CRAT), you can:

  • Identify blind spots and recommended areas for improvement
  • Discover the untapped potential of various existing solutions, integrations and overlaps that can be fine-tuned
  • Build a customised cyber resilience strategy to fit your vision & mission
The assessment questions

The questionnaire only takes about two hours, and the team at Complete IT Systems can help guide you through it. The key things to know:

  • It features a series of simple Yes / No questions to assess your current resilence state.
  • The assessment is vendor agnostic but funded by IBM.
  • It’s non-invasive, with no need to install anything or run scripts.
  • There’s no obligation to act on all or any of the results.
What you’ll get

Once we’ve completed the questionnaire with you, you’ll get the following deliverables:

  • Detailed assessment report
  • Management presentation
  • Roadmap of recommended improvements & considerations
  • Scheduled follow-ups to discuss the findings

Ready to get started?

Drop us your contact details, and a member of our team will be in touch to get things started!

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As IBM partners, Complete IT Systems have the skills and resources to help your business implement the best solutions for the modern workplace.

For more information on how Complete IT Systems and IBM can help, call 01274 396 213 or email .

 

Storage made simple

Businesses are being challenged to optimise IT and drive growth without sacrificing performance, quality or security. With the IBM FlashSystem family, you have everything you need to address transformation and increase cyber resilience.

Designed to deliver industry-leading performance and cost efficiency, FlashSystem all-flash and hybridflash arrays simplify hybrid cloud storage and shorten cyberattack recovery time. Each member of the family provides enterprise-grade capabilities, but they’re not just for big businesses. Use this eBook to learn how IBM FlashSystem helps organisations protect, manage and extend data to the cloud with less complexity and lower costs.

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How resilient is your data strategy?

Every business is facing pressure to optimise IT and address transformation. But with the rapid rise of ransomware and other cyberattacks, you can’t afford to sacrifice security as you address these challenges.

New IBM FlashSystem redefines cyber resilience

IBM FlashSystem is already the most trusted data platform. Now FlashSystem has redefined cyber resilience, so you can:

  • Recover in hours not days – with flash storage backups that ensure continuity of operations
  • Detect attacks early to minimise the damage – with IBM FlashSystem Cyber Vault
  • Create immutable, isolated backups – on systems from multiple vendors

All this is in addition to industry-leading performance with microsecond latency, plus data reduction and compression that provide cost-efficiency at the core.

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