IBM says it has addressed the availability, compliance and retention, and security pain points for users attempting to redesign datacenters to cope with "internet scale data requirements.

The supplier said: "Today's infrastructure is not designed to efficiently manage the estimated two billion people who will be on the Web by 2011 nor the expected one trillion connected objects - cars, appliances, cameras, roadways, pipelines - comprising "the Internet of things.

In a wide ranging statement which targeted rivals Sun and EMC in capacity and energy use IBM said: "Ensuring that the information in a datacenter is secure and being accessed only by those authorised has become a top concern for all datacenters - large and small.

A recent datacenter hack cost one company more than $60 million dollars in damages through theft of data and unauthorised use of credit card information of consumers. Meanwhile, the availability and authentication of data -- from massive corporate and government databases to the 1 billion people expected to be using the mobile web this year - is a key priority.

"In the emerging area of information security and encryption key management for storage - where information is "locked and can only be accessed by users who have "keys, IBM will release new Tivoli Key Lifecycle Management software, which helps automate the management of keys where disk and tape storage devices cannot be compromised if lost or stolen. On the management side it launched Remote Managed Infrastructure Services (RMIS). These services offer clients a new model for efficient IT management and security with minimal disruption to existing environments, allowing clients to maintain their existing assets on-site.

"Physical space is a huge problem for datacenters today as they look to consolidate, so a new high density tape storage library frame, the TS3500, is being introduced that can hold up to three-times more cartridges in a 10 square foot footprint, providing nearly twice the storage density of Sun. The DS8000 is an upgraded high end disk offering that adds more IBM mainframe storage functionality for customers dealing with large database growth in their mainframes. The updated disk offering will also have RAID 6 protection - while delivering 50 percent more storage capacity in the same footprint with new, higher capacity, performance-optimised drives - allowing clients to keep datacenter costs and energy usage down.

"The DR550 disk storage offering is upgraded with enhanced drives that will enable 33 percent more disk capacity. Unlike the EMC Centera, the IBM system allows partitioning to run third-party ISV applications and leverages both disk and tape, allowing clients to reduce their total cost of ownership and power consumption up to 50 percent. IBM is formally offering clients the world's fastest one terabyte storage tape drive, the TS1130, far surpassing the current Sun offering, to help them protect and archive more information with less cost and less energy usage. Storing up to one terabyte of uncompressed data per tape cartridge, storage backups can be completed up to 54 percent faster than the previous IBM generation drive."

The company said it has spent three years and $2 billion on this development.