Efficient, pretested, integrated and powerful storage solution

IBM® Storwize® Rapid Application Storage is an innovative new storage solution that helps improve storage efficiency and application availability, integrates closely with key existing applications, and can be deployed with minimal disruption to applications and to staff.

Increased storage utilisation

• Improve disk utilisation by up to 30% with thin provisioning and virtualisation
• Reduce the amount of storage required for snapshots by 75% or more

Improved storage administrator productivity

• Improve administrator productivity up to 2 times with easy to use GUI and virtualisation
• Real-time performance monitoring improves performance analysis time

Increased application performance

• Application throughput improved up to 3 times, up to 60% improved response time with Easy Tier
• Meet or exceed application performance levels with hot spot analytics

Increased application availability

• Easy integration with existing applications: SAP, Microsoft Exchange, IBM DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server
• Minimise application downtime with online data migration
• Reduce application downtime required for backup to seconds
• Reduce application downtime for data restores
• Improve data protection by 95% with hourly snapshots

Significantly reduced implementation time

• Cut implementation time in half
• Little or no impact to storage administrator staff
• Realise return on investment sooner

IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage brings together the latest in innovative storage technology, powerful management software, and IBM world-class services to help you manage your business applications and the information explosion.

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