Today, information has become the lifeline for business sustainability and competitive advantage. Firms of all size are searching for practical ways to create business value – to get their arms around information, correlate insights and to confidently predict outcomes and take action. | Tran Thanh Tu Storage Pre-sales Specialist Storage Product Line Manager IBM Vietnam Manage the Explosion of Information with IBM Information Infrastructure 2009 IBM Corporation Building a Smarter Planet with Dynamic Infrastructure Intro to Information Infrastructure Why Information Infrastructure Today information has become the lifeline for business sustainability and competitive advantage. Firms of all size are searching for practical ways to create business value - to get their arms around information correlate insights and to confidently predict outcomes and take action. For CIOs the information era poses unique challenges how to cost-effectively store archive and retrieve a virtual explosion of new information how to protect and secure that information meet compliance requirements and make it accessible for business insight where and when it s needed. Without a dynamic information infrastructure organizations will find themselves facing higher operational costs and greater exposure to business risks. To help our clients IBM is addressing these challenges with Information Infrastructure solutions for efficiently managing information growth supporting compliance reducing storage and archiving costs and enabling continuous access to information in support business requirements. 2 2009 IBM Corporation Building a Smarter Planet with Dynamic Infrastructure Intro to Information Infrastructure The Information Challenge Enterprise Data is Exploding 57 CGR Businesses are Under Pressure to Cost Efficiently Store Protect and Manage It Cost Efficiencies Globalization Risk Compliance Mergers Acquisitions Many industries require data to be retained more than 50 years 80 of this data is now unstructured email images videos documents Information downtime can cost up to 16 of a firm s total revenue Volume Explosion Unstructured Data Multiple Versions Inaccessible Untimely Data Volume By 2010 the codified information base of the world is expected to double every 11 hours. Data .
