Of all the critical elements of a complete data center strategy, nothing is more dynamic than storage, and the resources – human, hardware and software – needed to manage it. Facing unprecedented growth in the quantity and variety of data, as well as sweeping industry and government regulations that dictate how that data must be managed and protected, administrators are being forced to react quickly, control costs, work with limited resources, and yet implement long-term storage strategies that could easily last beyond their tenure.

Storage Optimization:
Sirius helps by assessing your current environment, creating a long-term roadmap for simplification, and outlining the phases that you can take to attain your objectives. We focus on solutions and best practices such as data classification, storage consolidation, storage virtualization and storage management.

Data Protection:
Sirius helps you increase the protection of your storage environment by focusing on: disaster recovery; backup and recovery; tape strategies; regulatory compliance; and data encryption.

Data Management:
Sirius helps your IT team manage data in a context that is more meaningful without requiring special storage management skills, by focusing on software management tools, e-mail management and archiving, and enterprise content management.

IBM storage products are available for all major server environments, including Mainframe Systems, Power Systems, IBM System x and Blade systems as well as the other leading x86/ISS servers. IBM products enable information-led transformation, which is key to growth for many organizations. It is a process through which organizations turn information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization, and competitive differentiation. Information-led transformation helps companies of all sizes use information more pervasively across the organization, leverage analytics to take a predictive view of the business, make real-time decisions, and discover new kinds of intelligence from the information at hand.

IBM core technologies
IBM storage solutions are optimized for the unique needs of midsize organizations, large enterprises, cloud computing providers, and others. IBM’s broad portfolio of products have integrated patented technology aimed at providing unique value. If you run IBM Systems, IBM Storage offers a particularly strong optimization strategy. Compared to companies focused solely on storage hardware and software, IBM understands the issues across the entire data center and can uniquely develop and manufacture storage products that take advantage of IBM Systems, IBM Software and other IBM technologies in your IT environment.
No other major vendor can match IBM’s breadth of information infrastructure capabilities. IBM offers integrated solutions for consolidation, data protection, storage management simplification, compliance support, and more. IBM technology includes SAN and network attached storage (NAS) disk systems, tape systems, SAN switches, storage management software, services, self-encrypting storage with key management, nonerasable, nonrewriteable storage for regulatory compliance, and flexible financing for large and midsize organizations.

As a result of the acquisition of MSI in November 2010, our combined company now operates three IBM Business Partner Innovation Centers (BPICs) in Dallas, TX, Omaha, NE, and Minneapolis, MN, as well as two BladeCenter and Storage Solution Centers (BSSCs) in Salt Lake City, UT and Overland Park, KS. 
 
The BPICs and BSSCs are part of Sirius’ overall network of nine Technology Enablement Centers (TECs), which are equipped with many of the latest servers, storage, networking and software products from across our range of business partners. Sirius can use the TECs to help you learn not only how software and hardware can help your increase your organization’s competitiveness, but also how the products can be applied in your specific environment. Training is available on-site, or nationwide via webinar.

The nine TECs provide environments where you can see solutions first-hand, and meet directly with engineers who provide deep knowledge of the systems and software in the Centers. And in the three BPICs and two BSSCs, you’ll find a broad variety of IBM solutions backed by highly certified consultants who have met the stringent requirements that IBM demands before conferring BPIC or BSSC status to a demonstration center.