Why IBM XIV
IBM XIV is a high-end disk storage system enabling thousands of enterprises to meet the challenge created by staggering data growth. IBM XIV delivers “no excuses”, hotspot-free high performance and empowers with extreme ease of use. For optimal agility in cloud and large environments, IBM XIV offers game-changing IBM Hyper-Scale management scalability, high service levels for dynamic, mixed workloads, and tight hypervisor and OpenStack integration.
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Powerful application performance with IBM XIV
IBM XIV benefits
Tuning-free high performance
Grid design and automation drives high service levels with zero tuning
Exceptional reliability
Five-nines design, self-healing, and rebuilds of under an hour (!) spell peace of mind
Ease of use
Easy migration, provisioning, and data-center wide management in a GUI customers love
Cloud agile
Elastic, simple, and hotspot-free XIV eases your journey to cloud
Easy-to-implement solutions
Hosts, hypervisors, applications, and tools integrate smoothly and cost-efficiently
Winning TCO
Cash in with low-cost per TB, ease of use, and environmental benefits
IBM XIV success stories
niu scales cloud to new heights with XIV
IT services provider flies high on low TCO for MS Exchange, Oracle, and SQL
Capgemini keeps the lights bright with XIV and Power
Improves Enterprise suite (EAM) failover for a key utility customer by 66% with XIV
Academica chooses IBM PureFlex and XIV for customer-friendly cloud
Customers provision their own servers and storage with a self-service portal
Clarks steps up its storage game
Shoe retailer finds XIV and Power a perfect fit for SAP and cuts management time by 75%
Contact IBM

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- Oncor provisions services in minutes with XIV (00:08:18)
- White paper: XIV and VMware for optimal virtualization (00:05:44)
- White paper: Driving performance with IBM XIV (00:20:33)
VMware
Microsoft
Symantec
Exchange
- Solution Brief: XIV resiliency with MS Exchange 2010 (1.9MB)
- North York: XIV doubles performance (131KB)
SAS
SAP
- Technical Brief: Leading manufacturer turbo-charges SAP with XIV and Power7 (3.92MB)
- SAP on XIV: Benefits and Best Practices (4.72MB)