IBM Real-time Compression

Storage efficiency solutions for primary active data

The IBM Real-time Compression STN6500 Appliance has been withdrawn from the market, effective February 5, 2013. This product has been replaced with the STN7800 Appliance.

Feature Benefits
Sixteen 1 GbE ports

Note: For 10 GbE connectivity, please see STN6800
  • Supports sixteen 1 GbE ports between NAS systems and network switches
Integrated appliance
  • No compression overhead on application servers or storage systems
  • Compression occurs before data is sent to the storage system, so both disks and disk system cache can be more efficient
  • Appliance cache and read-ahead capability can improve performance
  • Agnostic approach supports multiple storage systems and servers
  • Easy to order, deploy, and administer
Shrinks data up to 80 percent
  • By significantly reducing storage requirements, organizations can keep up to five times more information online for analytics, use the improved efficiency to reduce storage costs, or a combination of both
  • Downstream data, such as backups, copies and archives are also up to 80 percent smaller, increasing storage efficiency throughout the information life cycle
Works in real time, without degrading performance
  • IBM Real-time Compression can be used on most workloads, including active databases, IBM Lotus® Notes®, user file systems and active archives
  • Busy systems can see an increase in throughput and user response time because applications don’t wait as long for disk requests
Works on primary, active data
  • Supports multiple workloads without changing user or IT processes
  • No extra administrator overhead to decide which data to compress
Automated call home support
  • Autosupport for error reporting and resolution

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