IBM System Storage N7000 Modular Disk Storage System

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Highlights

• More robust and expandable infrastructure: keeps pace with companies’ growing business; designed for nondisruptive expansion to more than 4.3 PB (4,320 TB) storage capacity
• Management versatility: supports file serving and block I/O over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures simultaneously
• Efficient consolidation: FlexShare helps ensure that critical workloads get priority service
• Allows continuous operations: supports application-level recovery in minutes, not hours
• Better results with better performance: delivers high, consistent performance for mission-critical applications in storage and data protection

In an increasingly demanding and competitive business landscape, effective data management is essential to the success of your business. Employees, partners, and customers need access to up-to-date information to work productively, make timely decisions, and meet business goals. You are under pressure to deliver more storage capacity and at higher levels of service. Yet critical resources, including staffing, budget, power, cooling, and floor space, are often constrained and storage efficiency becomes the key to keep the pace in this growing environment.

These demands call for enterprise-class storage systems with the flexibility to support changing IT requirements, accommodate continuous data growth and satisfy application-level service requirements of network attached storage (NAS) environment, supporting storage area networks (SAN) infrastructures at a low overall cost.

The IBM® System Storage® N7000 series systems are designed to help you tackle the challenge of effective data management using virtualization technology and a multiprotocol storage architecture. The N7000 series is designed to deliver high-end enterprise storage and data management capabilities with midrange affordability. Built-in serviceability and manageability features help support your efforts to increase reliability, simplify and merge in a single code storage infrastructure and maintenance, and deliver exceptional economy.

The N7000 series, like all N series systems, provides powerful virtualization and thin provisioning capabilities to help you maximize storage utilization while minimizing the use of power, cooling, and floor space. At the same time, you can improve staff productivity with an integrated suite of application-aware manageability software offering policy-based automation to otherwise manual tasks, improving storage efficiency.

The N7000 series can integrate Fibre Channel, SAN, iSCSI SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), primary, near-line, and regulatory compliance data retention and archival storage in a single code architecture. The N7000 series also offers massive expandability to support growth and consolidation. The combination of versatility and simplicity of N series systems is intended to help you respond quickly to changing business needs.

In addition, the N7000 series, also available with a Gateway feature, can help you get the most from your existing storage equipment. You can improve your return on investment while continuing to support different access methods for different business solutions throughout the enterprise. The N7000 series is able to support attachment to a broad range of IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and HP storage subsystems, including the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) series, IBM XIV® Storage System, System Storage DS8000® and System Storage DS5000 series with its Gateway feature.