As the world becomes more interconnected, instrumented and intelligent—and creates more and more information—we have no choice but to stop perpetuating existing infrastructure inefficiencies, many of which are related to storage. Companies must start relying on smarter information storage systems that can handle all of this information and manage it intelligently. To address these inefficiencies, IBM has considerable resources developing storage efficiency solutions based on a set of essential technologies.
Logically aggregate disk storage so capacity can be efficiently allocated across applications and users.
- Increase utilisation of existing storage by up to 30%
- Move and manage data so hardware can be serviced—all without disrupting users.
Featured integrated solutions
IBM® Storwize® V7000
Introducing the IBM Storwize V7000 system, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, exceptional ease of use and performance—all integrated into a compact, modular design that’s offered at a remarkably low price.
IBM System Storage® DS8800
New DS8800 model represents the 4th-generation high-end disk system for business-critical environments. Combining new hardware throughout with a proven, reliable architecture, the DS8800 offers faster system performance and higher capacity in the same footprint than prior models with new IBM POWER6+ controllers, 8 Gb/s host and device adapters, and 2.5-inch, SAS drives.
IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller v6.1
New user interface (UI) based on the XIV UI designed to make SVC even easier and more productive to use; enhancements to performance and cost with Easy Tier; scalability enhancements supporting up to 4x the number of disk systems enabling customers to virtualise larger environments.
IBM XIV® Storage System®
Now even greater integration for virtualised storage environments, further simplified and efficient management, and higher performance is enabled, delivering increased business value to enterprise storage environments.
IBM System Storage® Easy Tier
IBM System Storage® Easy Tier enables clients to deploy solid-state storage confidently, effectively and economically by automatically and dynamically moving only the appropriate data to the SSDs in the system, based on ongoing performance monitoring.
What we offer for storage efficiency
IBM has leading hardware, software and a full line of services designed to help meet all your storage efficiency needs.
Storage
- IBM® Storwize® V7000
- IBM System Storage® DS8800
- IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller v6.1
- IBM Solid-state Storage technology (US)
- IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage system
- IBM XIV Storage System®
- IBM System Storage® Virtualisation
- IBM System Storage® TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z
- IBM System Storage® DS8700
- IBM System Storage® Disk Systems
- More information on IBM Information Infrastructure related storage offerings
Services
- Storage Optimised Services (US)
- IBM System Storage® Cloud Computing Solutions (US)
- GDPS Disk Copy Services (US)

