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Data: the core of cognitive business
The world is awash in oceans of data. Structured or unstructured, generated internally or created by others, stored in the data center or the cloud, data sits at the core of cognitive business. Leveraging vast quantities of data to uncover patterns and pursue breakthrough ideas, a cognitive business enables lightning-fast decisions by quickly converting data into insights.
IBM Storage solutions provide the speed and performance of ready data access with the agility and efficiency of hybrid cloud and software-defined storage. By connecting data across any architecture, storage from IBM delivers deeper insights faster — giving you the edge to outthink and outperform your competition and win in the cognitive era.
Data delivery simplified
Support your most demanding application workloads with bulletproof all-flash data systems
The new IBM DS8880F all-flash data systems are designed to deliver extraordinary performance, 24x7 access to data and greater than six-nines availability.
You gain fast data analytics and optimized data economics to enable your business for the cognitive era.
See how the DS8880F family can efficiently meet your business-critical workloads with consistent microsecond application response times.
Transform information technology into business innovation
IBM FlashSystem all-flash storage platforms are engineered to address the most demanding performance, reliability, data economics, and software-defined storage requirements.
Simply efficient. Simply reliable. Simply fast. Move your business into the Cognitive Era with IBM FlashSystem.
Protect your existing storage investment with a powerful and cost-effective all-flash or hybrid storage solution
The IBM Storwize family provides a powerful combination of IBM Spectrum Virtualize software and flash storage, to help optimize data economics, and solve unique business and IT requirements.
Support growing flash workloads with up to 8x larger all-flash Storwize systems: up to 32PB of flash storage in only four racks.
All-flash arrays can fit within hybrid storage infrastructure.
Eliminate silos, simplify management, reduce complexity and cost with pre-validated pre-integrated solutions
- Simplify management
- Deploy and scale applications faster
- Boost productivity
- Reduce TCO
Industry-leading flexibility and cost efficiency
IBM Spectrum Storage Suite provides unlimited access to all members of the IBM Spectrum Storage software family with licensing on a flat, cost-per-terabyte basis. This makes pricing easy to understand and predictable as capacity grows.
The suite is structured specifically to meet changing storage needs including hybrid cloud. It is ideal for organizations just starting out with software-defined storage as well as those with established infrastructures who need to expand their capabilities.
Get cost-effective storage for the cloud
IBM Tape Solutions are designed to improve the efficiency of cloud and big data storage.
If you are concerned about the costs of long term storage, then IBM Tape is your answer.
What's new
Get the speed you need to win
NEW! IBM DS8880F bulletproof all-flash data systems deliver uncompromised availability and microsecond application response times.
Hybrid cloud data protection with IBM Spectrum Protect
See how IBM Spectrum Protect can give you the peace of mind and confidence that comes from knowing your data is safe.
Gartner Magic Quadrant Leadership
IBM has been recognized as a leader in 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant reports.
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Get to know the experts
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Woody Hutsell
Manager, FlashSystem Portfolio Strategy & Enablement
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Richard Swain
Mid-Atlantic Storage Team Lead Engineer
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Tony Pearson
Master Inventor and Senior Consulting IT Specialist
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Elisabeth Stahl
Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing
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Brian Sherman
Distinguished Engineer - Americas Storage ATS
Woody Hutsell
Manager, FlashSystem Portfolio Strategy & Enablement
Woody Hutsell brings more than 20 years of IT experience to IBM. He joined the company from Fusion-io, where he worked as the Senior Director of Product Management responsible for software appliances. Mr. Hutsell spent 10 years at Texas Memory Systems, where he ultimately held the positions of President and Board Member. He also worked for eight years at Deloitte Consulting occupying various IT consulting roles. Mr. Hutsell holds an MBA from the University of Texas in Information Technology.
Ways to connect with Woody
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Richard Swain
Mid-Atlantic Storage Team Lead Engineer
Richard works on promoting NAS technology at IBM. From working with customers to speaking engagements, Richard is always helping match technology with future needs. He has worked for 14 in the IT business and has touched every part of the business from networking, databases, application development, and management. Currently he is working on promoting the SONAS product and working in the Research Triangle Park area as a storage systems engineer.
Richard's Blog: The Storage Tank
The Storage Tank is written by Richard Swain and is an independent blog featuring storage products for small/medium business up to the large enterprise. There are so many choices when it comes to deciding on what kind of storage you should put in your environment. For the most part the parts are all the same, ita's how they are put together and the software that makes them work.
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Tony Pearson
Master Inventor and Senior Consulting IT Specialist
Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist for the IBM System Storage product line at the
IBM Executive Briefing Center in Tucson Arizona, and featured contributor to IBM's developerWorks. In 2011, Tony celebrated his 25th year anniversary with IBM Storage on the same day as the
IBM's Centennial . He is author of the Inside System Storage
series of books .
Tony's Blog: Inside System Storage
This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to storage and storage networking hardware, software and services.
Ways to connect with Tony
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Elisabeth Stahl
Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing
Elisabeth Stahl is Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing for the IBM Systems and Technology Group and has been working in systems performance for over 25 years.
Elisabeth's blog – benchmarkingblog
This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems performance and benchmarking. You can also find her on the IBM developerWorks blog - Benchmarking and systems performance
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Brian Sherman
Distinguished Engineer – Americas Storage ATS
Brian Sherman is a Distinguished Engineer in IBM. Brian has over twenty seven years experience as an I/T Specialist since joining IBM from McMaster University in 1985 with a Mathematics and Computer Science Degree. Brian has worked directly with customers in various storage related roles covering level 2 software support, implementation services, Systems Engineer and Advanced Technical Support. Brian has extensive understanding of storage related industry trends and emerging technologies. He currently provides Storage Hardware and Software technical sales, support and competitive responsibility across the Americas as part of the GMU and Americas Advanced Technical Support (ATS) organization. Brian also develops and provides World Wide technical education on new Storage Hardware and Software product launches and participates on several Storage Product Development Teams. Brian authors several storage best practices white papers and is a regular contributor to IBM Redbooks.
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