IBM Storage analyses, adapts to and improves application performance

Organisations of all sizes continue to struggle with the explosive growth of information, rising storage costs, flat IT and storage budgets, and increasing user expectations. To meet these challenges – to store and consistently extract business value from all of this data – a new approach to storage is needed.

Easily integrate file and block storage with the new Storwize V7000 Unified

Storwize V7000 Unified - the world’s most powerful midrange storage system - adds integrated file support

• World class GUI that truly integrates and simplifies file and block management
• Automatic, policy driven movement of files to the appropriate storage tier reduces cost and simplifies administration

Expect your storage to automatically analyse, adapt to, and improve application performance

Easy Tier for DS8000® and Storwize® V7000, and IBM® XIV® Gen3 adapt to changing application and workload requirements -- with little or no administrator intervention

• Easy Tier for DS8800 improves performance and eliminates the need for tuning with fully automated data placement across 3 storage tiers.
• IBM XIV, the industry’s most agile storage system, maintains consistently high application performance and now stores 50% more data

Always have the files you need – whenever you need them, wherever you are

IBM Active Cloud Engine™ allows data to move to the user. In other clouds, users have to chase their data.

• IBM Active Cloud Engine for SONAS enables multi-site clouds and speeds user access to billions of files
• Active Cloud Engine for Storwize V7000 Unified brings basic cloud capabilities to midrange storage users

• Expect more from your storage. See all the new storage announcements.