Saudi Business Machines showcases smart storage solutions

Saudi Business Machines (SBM), General Marketing Sales Representative of IBM in Saudi Arabia, recently hosted a roadshow in Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam to showcase IBM’s latest storage solutions and their functions.

IBM’s latest in storage solutions offer optimized smart storage solutions that insure flexibility & scalability and these systems can scale up from the smallest configuration to the largest configuration non-disruptively; availability & resiliency with higher performance levels. IBM’s solutions assure to decrease risks related to Information Capital and guarantee businesses continuity.

“The most advanced model of IBM’s System Storage has been designed to support even the most challenging business applications”, said Fadhel Al-Shaikh, Vice President of Systems Sales, SBM. “With latest smart storage improvement, the new model has unparalleled resiliency features”.

He added: “The ability to ensure your data is secure even after it has been removed from your physical storage is essential to all organizations. IBM’s latest smart storage solutions enable professional entities to achieve their business objectives and goals by addressing the needs of important business applications. IBM’s is among the leading data storage service providers, and continue to develop systems that integrate new solutions and technologies within business and IT infrastructure. IBM has largely invested in enhancing System Storage products and services to better meet the information infrastructure needs of organizations”

Noting the amount of security breaches to occur in recent times, IBM developed latest smart systems to increase security and reduce complexity with innovative self-encrypting drives. These self-encrypting storage systems automatically secure all data on a disk drive that is encrypted once they are removed from the storage system, therefore ensuring that if it was to get lost or stolen the information would be unreadable.