Enterprise disk storage

The IBM® System Storage® DS8000® offers high-performance, high-capacity, secure storage systems that are designed to deliver resiliency and total value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments.

• CapacityFrom under 5 TB to over 2,300 TB with multiple drive options

• FunctionalityHighest levels of performance and resiliency; exceptional support for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads; IBM Easy Tier™ automated performance optimization; superior mirroring and copy functions; innovative self-encrypting disks; heterogeneous server platform support; flexible configuration options and high scalability to support storage consolidation through tiered storage

• Total cost of ownership (TCO)Enterprise Choice warranty of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years on hardware and advanced software features offers dramatic opportunities to help organizations reduce the TCO of their storage systems. Superior investment protection from extensive code reuse and feature interoperability across multiple generations.

The IBM® XIV® Storage System is a proven, high-end disk storage series designed to address storage challenges across the application spectrum, including for virtualization, email, database, analytics, and data protection solutions. The XIV series delivers consistent high performance and high reliability at tier 2 costs for even the most demanding workloads, using massive parallelism to allocate system resources evenly at all times and scale seamlessly without manual tuning. Its virtualized design and customer-acclaimed ease of management dramatically reduce administrative overhead and bring optimization to virtualized server and cloud environments.

• CapacityXIV Gen3 (Model 114): From 55 to 243 TB usable per frame;
  
  XIV (Model A14): From 27 to 161 TB usable per frame

• PerformanceConsistent high performance for all workloads without manual tuning: XIV Gen3 is designed for ultrahigh performance with an InfiniBand backplane, cache, optional SSD caching (optional), and other state-of-the-art hardware, including eight Gbps FC ports for very high-speed data transfer

• ReliabilityActive-active N+1 redundancy of all system components, rapid disk rebuild, self-healing

• FunctionalityRich features such as data migration, thin provisioning, and mirroring come standard with software

• Total cost of ownership (TCO)XIV can offer dramatic savings through ease of management, virtualization, and efficiencies in capacity, power, and space

The IBM SONAS is an enterprise class network-attach storage system designed to offer scale out performance, capacity and very high utilization rate. It is designed as a single global repository to manage multiple petabytes of storage and up to a billion files under single File System securely, efficiently. Its provides policy-driven file lifecycle management driven by a robust Policy Engine and automated storage tiering (disk and tape) for operational efficiency, ease of management and cost savings.

• Capacity21.6 petabytes

• FunctionalityUp to a billion files in a single file system and up to 256 file systems; Simplified management of petabytes of storage; Linear scaling of performance; Robust, automated tiered storage and lifecycle management; Backend Tape support for long term cost savings; Robust asynchronous replication for business continuity and disaster recovery; Leverage as a NAS gateway for IBM XIV Storage System

• Cloud-readyProvision and monitor usage by application, file, department or whatever makes sense to business; Includes ability to report usage and access patterns for chargeback