Through its extraordinary flexibility, reliability, and performance, the IBM® System Storage® DS8000® series is designed to manage a broad scope of storage workloads that exist in today’s complex data center and do it effectively and efficiently. This flagship IBM disk system can bring simplicity to your storage environment by supporting a mix of random and sequential I/O workloads for a mix of interactive and batch applications, regardless of whether they are running on one of today’s popular distributed server platforms or on the mainframe.
Imagine how much more efficient and effective your IT staff could be if your storage system could manage all of these workloads simultaneously while adapting automatically to meet your application requirements as they change throughout the day. The DS8000 series can help you accomplish this with a range of features that provide adaptable performance through automated storage tiering, automated quality of service management, broad server support and outstanding scalability.
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DS8000 Series: Control for storage growth (PDF, 379KB)
Keep the pace with growing storage demands with the IBM System Storage DS8000 series.
The State of the Core - Engineering the Enterprise Storage Infrastructure with the IBM DS8000 (PDF, 995KB)
Learn how the DS8800 is helping customers utilize its advanced capabilities to optimize the entire application stack.
IBM System Storage DS8000 Easy Tier Video (00:03:45)
See how you can eliminate the need for manual storage tier policies and help reduce costs.
ITG Cost/Benefit Case
Comparing Costs for DS8800 and EMC VMAX Systems
IBM System Storage DS8000 series
The IBM System Storage® DS8000® offers an advanced storage solution that builds on a longstanding foundation of smart storage architecture and design. Recent enhancements of the DS8000 series include:
- Smarter tiering to optimize storage performance and system resources across multiple tiers or within a single tier
- Automatic workload management to align system resources to the various applications the system supports
- Advanced caching algorithms that automatically optimize workload performance based on workload type
DS8700 case study and video
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee auto-encrypts patient data using IBM System Storage DS8700
University of Pittsburgh gives users faster access
More than double the amount of cache available, providing some much needed breathing space and giving users faster access to data.
Improve response speeds by 10%
Banca popolare dell’Emilia Romagna allows banking customers to access their accounts more quickly.
Tony Pearson
Senior IT Storage Consultant
Tony Pearson presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line as well as various Tivoli storage software products.
He also leads client workshops to help with strategic planning for IBM's integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products. He is author of the book "Inside System Storage: Volume I".*
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. It was rated one of the top 10 blogs of 2006 for the IT storage industry by "Networking World" magazine. It has been published in book form as "Inside System Storage: Volume I", and is available to order in Hardcover or Paperback versions.
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Tony Pearson is a Senior IT Storage Consultant and Master Inventor for the IBM System Storage product line with over 20 years experience in IBM storage.
