IBM: Cloud Storage will be the focus of future storage efforts

At the beginning of 2013, consulting firm Gartner announced the list of the top ten cloud storage vendors in the world, with IBM impressively. While IBM Systems and Technology vice president and general manager of storage systems Laura Guio and IBM Systems and Technology Storage Products Division Huang Jianxin, general manager of Greater China, some time ago in an interview with the Chinese media, also made it clear that cloud storage will be IBM Storage sector in 2013 focus of work.

Laura Guio, IBM vice president and general manager of storage systems at IBM Systems and Technology

Huang Jianxin, General Manager, Greater China, Storage Products Division, IBM Systems and Technology

"2013 is likely to be a cloud year, not only in China but also globally, and from our storage strategy, we need to help users more easily use storage resources in a cloud environment," said Guio. At the same time, Guio emphasizes that while IBM has publicly owned cloud operations abroad, IBM's main target customers for cloud storage remain corporate users, primarily helping enterprise customers build private cloud storage and helping public cloud service providers build cloud storage platforms .

Gartner believes IBM's big-business sales advantage over the years is likely to make it a major player in the cloud storage market for large enterprises. Guio and Huang Jianxin said that compared with other new and old competitors in the cloud storage market, IBM has at least two major advantages.

First, IBM has a very complete cloud computing solution that is part of its SmartCloud enterprise cloud computing solution. What does this mean? We know that, unless it is a public cloud storage service provider, the average enterprise user seldom stands alone for "cloud storage" in practice, and the user needs an overall private cloud project, and the cloud storage is Included in the private cloud project. "When we help customers implement the cloud, we provide a cloud computing solution that includes servers, networks, storage and services as a whole, which is our advantage," Huang said.

Secondly, as far as the storage product itself is concerned, Guio believes that IBM has the advantage of being able to provide different types of storage products from low end to high end simultaneously, not only ensuring their consistent high performance, but also meeting the growth of customers' businesses.

Speaking of the importance of the Chinese market, Guio said that the main force of the global R & D team in the field of IBM storage has long been settled in China. Moreover, the management and R & D team of IBM Global Storage Department's entire product line of high school and low end are doing well in China this year Year plan. Of course, IBM storage performance in the Chinese market has also been outstanding: Huang Jianxin revealed that IBM's storage market share in China has been the first in nine consecutive years, its high-end market share in 2012 was an astonishing 50% growth. With the implementation of cloud storage strategy will further promote the IBM high school low-end storage product line sales.