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posted on 21 May 2008 22:28

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IIBM has opened the world’s first data center specifically designed to help clients across the globe develop and implement long-term plans to manage and archive massive amounts of business information.

The centre is located in Guadalajara, known as Mexico’s “Silicon Valley.”

The archiving and retention of information -- including documents, email, video, audio, medical files, etc. -- is one of the highest storage growth segments today, according to the Enterprise Strategy Group. Worldwide digital archive capacity is expected to increase at a nearly 60 percent compound annual growth rate by 2012 which is an 800 percent total increase in archive capacity over a five year period of time.

IBM’s archive offerings are helping clients by focusing on best practices for virtualization, energy efficiency, service management, security and cloud computing.

Andy Monshaw, IBM System Storage general manager, said: "By establishing the first world class briefing center solely focused on archive, we are helping organizations truly solve and manage their information infrastructure in a complete way by showing how the solutions work in real time. IBM is the only company in the world that has the thought leadership, broad base of skills, proven capabilities and solutions to deliver a dedicated archive solutions center to our clients that will help them plan, integrate and access their information infrastructure.”

IBM’s systems, software and services featured at the center include IBM Enterprise Content Management, Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Optim software, the IBM Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) McKesson's Medical Imaging Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Horizon Patient Folder products, also the IBM System Storage DR550 archive and data retention product, and other hardware plus services offerings.

IBM plans to invest more than $10 million over the next twelve months in training and infrastructure costs to expand the center.

^{[Chris Mellor.]}