Are you in control of your own information explosion?
Around the world, businesses of all sizes are struggling to manage, protect and maintain rapidly growing information assets.
Information growth means more business opportunities and also more risks. Businesses that are able to take advantage of information-related opportunities and manage information risk outperform those that don’t.
All information is not of equal value to the organization. Sound information infrastructure planning identifies the information that is most critical to the business and then leverages flexible frameworks to achieve information resiliency. The key is to control information growth rates while managing business risk and optimizing storage costs.
DS8000 offers improved support for tiered storage
The IBM System Storage DS8000 series offers scalability, resiliency and flexibility to satisfy the most demanding storage customers (or requirements):
Innovation that scales
IBM System Storage™ DS8000 Turbo provides new ways to simplify and increase efficiency, making a difference for storage clients and the planet.
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Extended Address Volumes increase support for System z volumes by over 400%.
Flexibility to aid consolidation and simplification
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Variable LPAR for advanced flexibility and and consolidation with more granular virtualization and consolidation
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Advanced management offers higher availability and storage environment optimization with updated IBM System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC)
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Simplified conversion of non–IBM storage–mirroring environments on System z to IBM DS8000 and DS6000 with FlashCopy Manager and PPRC Manager
Innovation that protects
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Raid 6 support increases DS8000’s superior resiliency to support today’s lower–cost, less–reliable, large capacity drives
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Certified–Secure Data Overwrite Services offer virtual erasure of all information within DS8000 systems to protect sensitive information on retired systems
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Support for Internet Protocol V6 (IPV6) offers increased security, increased addressing space, built–in QoS, and better routing performance and services
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IBM Basic Hyperswap support offers higher, more cost–effective business resiliency for System z
