IBM System Storage N series with Performance Accelerator Module

• Simplify performance optimization for random read workloads and reduce demand for high-performance disk drives.
• Reduce latency and improve throughput and speed access to your data
• Preserve storage, power, and space with solid state modules designed to consume less power disk drives
• Reduce operational costs by improving scalability and addressing performance effectively

IT should be a source of business efficiency and productivity for your organization. IT engineers rely on servers and storage systems to help support innovation and shorter product development cycles. Executives depend on IT to help meet aggressive goals for growth. IBM System Storage™ N series Performance Accelerator Module (PAM) was created to provide you with a new, cost-effective way to optimize performance.

Whether your IT task is order fulfillment planning or design simulation, time saved doing the task is time given back to the professionals waiting for results. Productivity can be increased by the performance of your servers and storage systems.

But you still need to be cost-effective. Higher levels of performance must be achieved without excessive use of data center resources.

IBM System Storage N series Performance Accelerator Module (PAM) was created to provide you with a new way to optimize storage performance. The N series PAM solution has been designed to help you improve performance for workloads that are random read-intensive without increasing drive counts

Common features

• The IBM System Storage™ N series Performance Accelerator Module (PAM) has been designed to help you improve performance for workloads that are random read-intensive without increasing drive counts.
• Combination of hardware—Performance Accelerator Module (PAM) PCI Express card—and tunable caching software
• PAM modules available: 16 GB of RAM memory, and 256 GB/512 GB of flash memory per PAM module
• Reduce latency and improve I/O throughput
• Available for N5000, N6000 and N7000 series
• One software license required per storage controller – FlexScale for the 16 GB module and PAM II for 256 GB/512 GB adapters.
• Used to improve performance for workloads such as file services, messaging, and OLTP databases