Unisys Expands Real-Time Infrastructure Portfolio with New Real-Time Storage Metering Solution
London, March 23, 2006 - Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS), the worldwide technology services and solutions company, today announced a new storage capability under its Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) offering. The new Real-Time Storage (RTS) metering solution is a truly flexible and scalable storage utility service allowing organisations to pay only for actual capacity consumed, adapting their storage requirements and costs according to the changing needs of the business.
RTS metering, which is available to organisations today, is the latest development in Unisys RTI vision to help businesses create an agile and intelligent infrastructure that can respond more quickly to business changes. By developing a shared set of computing resources that are tuned and sized dynamically and automatically based on business-driven demands, Unisys RTI enables businesses to align their IT infrastructure with business requirements, and deliver higher performance at a lower cost.
The new RTS metering solution directly benefits any business experiencing sustained growth in storage demand, providing a framework to manage storage as a critical business asset. Using RTS metering, businesses are better prepared to manage increasing demand in data storage and meet regulatory requirements to keep information for longer; whilst being able to manage cost down and optimise utilisation of key resources. The model is based on enhancing the flexibility and scalability needed by the business through the installation of all anticipated storage capacity upfront1, allowing storage consumption to vary up and down but paying only for actual capacity consumed. In addition to improving overall IT performance, it also minimises risk by eliminating storage upgrades and downtime, enhancing the security of business operations.
According to a recent IDC report2, of over 100 European IT managers, the top three priorities for storage in 2006 were identified as: the need to improve capacity (34%), improve performance (28%) and reduce recovery time (23%). Through implementing RTS metering, companies can address all these issues - taking advantage of the ability to accommodate performance peaks on an ad hoc basis, lower storage costs, improve overall business performance and increase security of its business operations. As IT infrastructure downtime is also reduced, businesses can also offer improved quality of service levels to customers and increased operating times.
Martin Hingley, Vice President, European Systems Group, IDC comments, “CIOs face a number of challenges in planning for the future and the amount of available data and processing capacity will only increase in light of European legislation and the growth of Internet commerce. Organisations need to investigate how they can best implement dynamic IT infrastructures by considering utility models such as metered storage which will allow their businesses to be more agile and responsive to their needs. The flexible financing element of metered solutions also addresses CIOs concerns over cost control as they can match business overheads to revenue and also charge-back what is consumed by different parts of the business.”
Steve Rawsthorn, Vice President, Unisys Systems & Technology EMEA, explains, “As the need for real-time infrastructure grows, Unisys is helping clients maximise their IT assets to adapt rapidly and dynamically to changing business requirements. To remain competitive, businesses need to be more flexible, whether it’s by increasing capacity to take into account web site traffic or the need to store digital media as photos. In particular, financial institutions, who need to access information for regulatory and legal reasons, require a real-time infrastructure that will help them manage, use, protect and share their information assets more efficiently and cost effectively.”
Unisys customers are already benefiting from the RTS metering solution based on EMC Symmetrix network storage. Eric Shefler, VP Marketing & Sales Engagement, EMEA, EMC says, “Enterprises need to manage their growing volumes of information more effectively and respond to the reality that the value of information keeps increasing or decreasing over time, requiring different levels of accessibility and protection. Unisys customers can benefit from a powerful combination of incremental scalability, constant availability and exceptional data mobility achieved through the Real-Time Storage metering solution.”
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