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IBM XIV Storage System

Storage Reinvented

XIV. Storage reinvented - again. 3rd Generation, 4 times the speed.

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IBM XIV is a proven high-end disk storage system designed to eliminate storage management complexity and deliver high performance that never compromises reliability. XIV provides consistent high performance without manual tuning for even the most demanding workloads. With a massively parallel grid architecture, XIV is recognized as an ideal platform for cloud computing and virtualized environments.

Widely praised for simplicity leading to exceptional TCO*, XIV now takes ease of use to the next level with anytime, anywhere monitoring via the Apple iPad app.

Benefits and success stories

  • Consistent High Performance

    Massive parallelism and even data distribution keep service levels high for all workloads -- even the most demanding -- without tuning required.

  • Outstanding Reliability

    Built-in resilience, self-healing, and lightning fast rebuild speeds keep your data highly available and accessible at all times.

  • Unmatched Ease of Use

    Stunning XIV simplicity and powerful features create a new reality in managing storage. Now with an app for mobile devices.

  • Optimized for Virtual Environments

    Virtualized XIV storage is a perfect fit with VMware, Hyper-V, and PowerVM for meeting your dynamic virtualization goals.

  • Powerful Storage for Your Cloud

    Cloud-ready and offering low-touch ease of use, XIV delivers performance, availability, and elasticity for executing on your cloud objectives.

  • Seamless Integrated Solutions

    Easy, no-cost XIV integration with host platforms and business applications helps you do more with your data.

Spotlights

IBM XIV Storage System series

IBM XIV is offered in two models, both based on the same proven XIV architecture, all-inclusive pricing approach, and phenomenally low TCO:

Blue Skies for Your Cloud with IBM XIV Storage

More and more customers are using XIV to build their clouds -- find out why in this white paper
 


XIV Gen3 Resiliency with Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010.

XIV Gen3 is the first storage system to offer 3TB drives for Exchange 2010, driving unmatched TCO and stellar performance


Tallink Group Sails Full Steam Ahead with XIV

High performing private cloud spurs business growth and 50% capacity savings
 


XIV

Powerful Storage for Your Cloud

Virtualized storage for a balanced cloud ecosystem, XIV accelerates implementations, provides consistent high performance, and meets service level goals—with minimal management.

XIV offers key cloud-enabling features:

A large majority of Fortune 100 companies rely on IBM cloud solutions.

Tallink Group (Travel and Transportation)

Tallink

Benefits: Always-up, high performance private cloud with a 50% reduction in disk space.


Universität München (Education)

TUM. Technische Universitat München.

Benefits: XIV simplifies cloud administration for heavy, multi-instance SAP environment.


CIBER Managed Services (Computer Services)

ciber. Practical Innovation.

Benefits: Supports high performance cloud for SAP hosting, with easy provisioning.


XIV

Consistent High Performance

The XIV series provides predictable and consistent high performance without hotspots. Its powerful grid architecture is designed to deliver the same high service level to all applications -- even through peak load periods, rebuilds, and maintenance. Here’s how:

Read how the XIV system delivers amazing performance for diverse application needs:

Microsoft Exchange

North York General Hospital

North York (Healthcare)


Benefits: 100% application performance increase by reducing I/O bottlenecks.


Oracle

ubank

ubank (Finance)


Benefits: Reduced run time for batch processing and backups by a factor of four.


SAP

Denbury

Denbury Resources (Energy)


Benefits: Processes 60% more data and completes vital monthly processes on time.


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IBM XIV Gen3: Straight Talk on Performance

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XIV

Outstanding Reliability

XIV uses its grid architecture, massive parallelism, and powerful distributed rebuild mechanism to provide outstanding reliability and availability. Here’s how:

Read how XIV keeps your data safe and available:

Telekom Slovenia (Telecommunications)

Telekom Slovenije

Benefits: Built-in asynchronous mirroring provides cost-effective business continuity.


VCUHS (Healthcare)

VCU

Benefits: Continuous data availability for efficient, high-quality care.


Group Credit Agricole of Morocco (Banking)

Benefits: Fast backups using XIV with ProtecTIER and Tivoli Storage Management.


 

XIV

Unmatched Ease of Use

IBM XIV simplifies storage management in many ways including: sparing users the need to manage distribution of logical volumes across physical disks and carry out performance troubleshooting; providing a remarkably intuitive, widely lauded GUI and easy-to-use management tools provided with the software at no extra charge; and liberating administrators with an on-the-go mobile app.

Hear what some customers say:

MMM Holdings (Insurance)


Benefits: ”XIV’s reporting capabilities are an absolute dream for any administrator.”


Cnam (Education)

le cnam

Benefits: “The management burden is 90 percent less.”
 


VCUHS (Healthcare)

VCU

Benefits: “The GUI is really simple to use.”
 


 

XIV

Optimized for Virtual Environments

The XIV system is a perfect storage foundation for virtualized infrastructures, designed to provide:

The great majority of IBM XIV customers use XIV with VMware, Hyper-V, PowerVM, and other hypervisors to optimize their storage-server virtualization environments:

Luxembourg Stock Exchange (Finance)

Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Benefits: Extremely consistent high performance, including during peak demand periods.
 


American Crystal Sugar (Consumer Products)

American Crystal Sugar Company.

Benefits: High-efficiency, low-cost SAP-based operations, perfectly aligned with business objectives.


Enfo (Computer Services)

Enfo.

Benefits: An enormously scalable, high-end system that delivers an excellent TCO-to-benefit ratio


 

XIV

Seamless Integrated Solutions and Interoperability

The IBM XIV series provides proven, easily implemented, cost-efficient solutions with Microsoft, VMware, SAP, Oracle, Symantec, IBM, and others, with the highest levels of partner support. Cost-free XIV Host Attachment Kits (HAKs) seamlessly configure best-practice platform-native multipath solutions for IBM AIX®, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, SLES Linux, and RedHat Linux.

See details on the XIV interoperability matrix (SSIC) and read about customer solution success:

Microsoft Exchange

niu. Know how

niu (IT Services)
 


Benefits: High performance and low cost hosting for many diverse customer systems.
 


VMware

EURONICS

Euronics (Distribution/Retail)
 


Benefits: Removed performance bottlenecks and improved batch jobs by up to 700%.


Lotus Notes, Allscripts, Tivoli


OCH Regional Medical Center (Healthcare).


Benefits: Ultra-high I/O performance that scales in line with growing capacity.
 


 

XIV

Powerful Storage for Your Cloud

IBM XIV delivers a set of robust management tools to help you get the most out of your data -- all are provided with the system software at no extra charge, managed through the GUI or CLI and ready for use:

See what our customers say about the value that XIV features bring to their productivity:

Remote Mirroring

Dundee. City Council

Dundee City Council (Government)

Benefits: “XIV mirroring enables us to fail over all our workload from one site to another within about 20 minutes.”


Thin Provisioning

Luxemburg Stock Exchange

Luxembourg Stock Exchange (Finance)

Benefits: “Drag-and-drop thin provisioning lets us deliver new storage volumes while still on the phone with the user!”


Snapshots

West Asset Management

West Asset Management (Finance)

Benefits: “IBM XIV comes with everything you need… Snapshots are already proving useful for backups.”


 
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City of Norfolk - IBM Client Reference Video

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NaviSite succeeds with IBM XIV Storage

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MMM - English version - IBM Client Reference Video

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Tallink Group Sails Full Steam Ahead with XIV

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Virgina Commonwealth University Health System - IBM Client Reference Video

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eXFlash: Dramatic performance with new SSDs

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IBM Client Reference Video - Telekom Slovenia - Asynchronous Mirroring

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Chinese Academy of Sciences - IBM Client Reference Video

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Bourse de Luxembourg - English version - IBM Client Reference Video

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EURONICS - English version - IBM Client Reference Video

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Group Credit Agricole of Morocco - IBM Client Reference Video

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What Makes XIV Great

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Anthony Vandewerdt

Storage Solution Specialist

Anthony Vandewerdt. Storage Solution Specialist.

Anthony Vandewerdt is an IBM Storage Specialist based in Melbourne, Australia. Anthony's expertise spans the entire IBM Storage portfolio, with specialization in creating solutions that use Enterprise Disk, SAN and Storage Virtualization. Anthony joined IBM in 1989 and started his career working in post-sales technical delivery and support. In 1999 Anthony started working with the IBM Enterprise Storage Server (commonly known as the IBM Shark) and has since had roles working with nearly all of IBM's System Storage products. Anthony currently works as a pre-sales Field Technical Support Specialist.


Anthony's blog - Aussie Storage Blog

Anthony Vandewerdt works for IBM Australia as a Storage Solutions Specialist. His goal is to share his knowledge and experience of using IBM Storage solutions and learn more along the way. You can also find him on the IBM developerWorks System Storage forum.


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* Up to 69% better than comparable systems, according to: “Comparing Cost Structures for IBM XIV and EMC VMAX/EMC VMAXe Systems,” October 2011, International Technology Group, Santa Cruz, California