IBM System Storage DS8000 series

High performance and superior reliability for the most demanding storage environments

The IBM System Storage DS8000 series is designed to manage a broad scope of storage workloads that exist in today’s complex data center, doing it effectively and efficiently. The proven success of this flagship IBM disk system is a direct consequence of its extraordinary flexibility, reliability, and performance, but also of its capacity to satisfy the needs of an ever changing world. The latest evidence of DS8000 series value is the new IBM System Storage DS8870 as the ideal storage platform for enterprise class environments by providing unique performance, availability and scalability.

The DS8870 delivers:

Up to three times higher performance compared to DS8800
Improved security with FDE as standard on all systems
Optimized Flash technology for dynamic performance and operational analytics

Additionally, the DS8000 includes a range of features that automate performance optimization and application quality of service, as well as provide the highest levels of reliability and system uptime.

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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. Additional valuable capabilities of the DS8000 series include:

Integrated QoS management aligns storage resources with application priorities
Self-optimizing performance across multiple drive tiers
Scalability to over 2 petabytes
Fully-redundant design for near-continuous data access and over five-nines availability
Special integration between DS8000 and System z and IBM Power Systems platforms offers clients unique benefits when these high-end systems are deployed together.