IBM XIV is a high-end disk storage system designed to provide consistent, hotspot-free performance and five-nines availability alongside exceptional ease of use. As virtualised storage that meshes tightly with hypervisors, XIV offers optimal agility for cloud and virtualised environments.
Self-optimising, with built-in efficiencies that simplify storage, XIV delivers the benefits of IBM Smarter Storage for Smarter Computing, empowering organisations to take control of their storage and to extract more valuable insights from their data. XIV is also supported as a high performance enterprise storage offering of the IBM PureFlex System, a single pre-integrated infrastructure system that offers simplicity, control, efficiency, and agility.
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IBM XIV benefits
- Tuning-free high performance: Grid design drives high service levels with no manual tuning
- Exceptional reliability: Five-nines availability, self-healing, and speedy rebuilds spell peace of mind
- It’s that easy: Easy migration, provisioning, and management in a GUI that customers love
- Cloud agile: Elastic, reliable, and hotspot-free XIV eases your journey to cloud
- Easy-to-implement solutions: Hosts, hypervisors, applications, and tools integrate smoothly and cost-efficiently
- Winning TCO: Cash in with low cost per TB, ease of use, and environmental benefits
IBM XIV success stories
Ricoh Americas chooses XIV and SVC
See the benefits of virtualisation and self-optimisation, simplifying storage and cutting costs
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XIV and IBM Power servers cut Oracle refresh by 94%
Penn State Hershey Medical Center thrives on IBM Storage
Cuts storage costs 44 percent with XIV and SVC
ACH Colombia slashes disaster recovery time by 97.5%, TCO by 50%
ACH locks in on DR with XIV and Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation
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