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Is your storage adapted to today's environment? IBM system virtualization gives you the flexibility you need to survive in today's unpredictable business environment.

The right storage systems are critical to a flexible, on demand IT infrastructure—and to meeting today's growing compliance demands. To help you attain both objectives, IBM offers a wide range of performance and capacity options for data protection, disaster resiliency and metro and global mirroring. IBM's key advantage? Our disk, tape, and software products work together to exploit synergies—such as virtualization—across IBM systems. The benefit for you: higher performance and availability across heterogeneous servers and applications, at lower cost and with less complexity.

IBM's integrated approach to storage makes it easy for you to add individual products to your infrastructure, or gain maximum advantage through an end-to-end, scalable solution. Our industry and technical experts are available to create an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy designed specifically for your current and future needs.

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System Storage NSeries: you the power of choice; an industry leader in NAS

The IBM® System Storage™ N series products are designed to provide network-attached storage (NAS) for mission-critical data, near-line storage, and WORM-protected data in high-availability, high-capacity and highly-secure environments.

A single operating system across the entire platform
A wide range of network attachment capabilities for a broad range of host and client systems
A multitude of network access protocols, including file system protocols (CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP) and block I/O protocols (iSCSI and FCP)
Easy-to-use, powerful software for streamlined administration and operations

IBM NAS hardware: a closer look

N3700 - Entry level NAS system designed for ease of use and affordability
N5000 - Entry to mid-level NAS system with versatility, available in both fiber or iSCSI mode.
N7000 - High end NAS system designed for large departments or corporate-wide use

Series	Model	Max. raw capacity	Processors	FC disk drives	SATA disk drives
N3700	2863-A10 2863-A20	16 TB	Two Broadcom® MIPS-based	72 GB 10K, 72 GB 15K, 144 GB 10K, 144 GB 15K, 300 GB 10K	250 GB 7.2 K., 320 GB 7.2 K., 500 GB 7.2 K
N5200	2864-A10 2864-A20	84 TB	Two 2.8 GHz Xeon	72 GB 10K, 72 GB 15K, 144 GB 10K, 144 GB 15K, 300 GB 10K	250 GB 7.2 K., 320 GB 7.2 K., 500 GB 7.2 K
N5500	2865-A10 2865-A20	168 TB	Four 2.8 GHz Xeon	72 GB 10K, 72 GB 15K, 144 GB 10K, 144 GB 15K, 300 GB 10K	250 GB 7.2 K., 320 GB 7.2 K., 500 GB 7.2 K
N5600	2868-A10 2868-A20	252 TB	Four 1.8GHz AMD Dual-core 64-bit Opteron	72 GB 10K, 72 GB 15K, 144 GB 10K, 144 GB 15K, 300 GB 10K	250 GB 7.2 K., 320 GB 7.2 K., 500 GB 7.2 K
N7600	2866-A10 2866-A20	420 TB (5)	Four 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron	72 GB 10K, 72 GB 15K, 144 GB 10K, 144 GB 15K, 300 GB 10K	250 GB 7.2 K., 320 GB 7.2 K., 500 GB 7.2 K
N7800	2867-A10 2867-A20	504 TB (5)	Eight 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron	72 GB 10K, 72 GB 15K, 144 GB 10K, 144 GB 15K, 300 GB 10K	250 GB 7.2 K., 320 GB 7.2 K., 500 GB 7.2 K