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IBM Storwize Family for Midrange Clients: Performance, Efficiency, No Compromises v1.0

Sell the IBM Storwize family for Midrange Clients

Customer pain points
The challenge to midsize businesses is clear: Businesses of all sizes are spending too much money managing the explosion of
data. Every company will be different, but there are some critical points you must consider when evaluating a new approach
to your sales planning.

(Click the images to see the pain points.)

Lack of storage vendor
Low storage utilization, inability flexibility
to share storage among
servers, unbalanced load on
storage

Storage infrastructure Inability to use virtualized

complexity causing Migrations cause Storage, like virtual
administration too much servers, as a tool for
and business inefficiency disruption optimizing expenditures,
resources and capabilities

Resource constraints due to

data growth outpace
IT budgets

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