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.
IBM System Storage DS8700
The IBM System Storage™ DS8700 is the most advanced model in the IBM DS8000® lineup and introduces new dual IBM POWER6®-based controllers that usher in a new level of performance for the company’s flagship enterprise disk platform. With overall performance improving up to over 2.5x, the new DS8700 is designed to support the most demanding business applications with its superior data throughput, unparalleled resiliency features, and better than five-nines1 availability.
Performance: New dual IBM POWER6-based controllers, PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) Generation 2 internal component interconnect, and device adapter cards enable up to over 2.5x performance improvement over previous models. Storage Pool Striping virtually eliminates disk hot spots.
Availability & Resiliency: Greater than five-nines1 availability with redundant, hot-swappable components, faster concurrent microcode updates, and a steady, 10-year lineage of microcode improvements built on the IBM POWER server architecture.
Flexibility & Scalability: Clients can scale up from the smallest configuration to the largest configuration non-disruptively by upgrading drive capacity, host adapters, drive adapters, memory, and even the system’s processor complexes.
Consolidation: Manage growth and reduce operational complexity through consolidation with high-performance solid-state drives, traditional enteprise fibre channel drives, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) drives, advanced management capabilities, support for advanced IBM de-duplication technology, and thin provisioning
Security: Protect sensitive information from internal and external threats with innovative self-encrypting disk drives that can help address PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance requirements.
Investment Protection: Exceptional total cost of ownership with Enterprise Choice warranties of up to four years on both hardware and advanced function software, while preserving client investments in prior models with full interoperability of hard drives, drive enclosures, tools, scripts, and copy services.
1 Five-nines is a term used to denote that a piece of equipment is functioning with 99.999 percent reliability
As you address your information retention needs: whether keeping valuable content for long periods of time, meeting industry retention regulations or addressing corporate governance, you need an archiving solution that is secure, scalable, but also cost-effective. IBM Information Archive, the next generation information retention solution is designed as an archiving repository for all types of content (structured or unstructured) to help organizations of any size address complete information retention needs—business, legal, or regulatory.
The IBM XIV Storage System is an enterprise-class, Tier-1 disk system designed to deliver high performance and eliminate hot spots through full exploitation of all system resources for all applications. Its revolutionary architecture provides performance, scalability, and ease of management while harnessing the high capacity and cost benefits of SATA drives. The XIV Storage System is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components. It employs a single storage architecture designed to provide the highest level of performance, reliability and features, together with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.
IBM DCS9900 offers enhanced storage for deep computing
Key new features have been announced for the IBM System Storage DCS9900 storage solution for highly scalable, data streaming deep computing applications:
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High speed InfiniBand host connectivity
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Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID) sleep mode capability, where "idle" tiers of SATA drives are placed into "sleep" mode (the mechanical head assembly is parked within the disk drive and the spindle is stopped), saving energy and helping to reduce power consumption.
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Model 3S2 SAS Storage Expansion Unit, a 3U unit supporting up to sixteen 15K rpm SAS drives available in sizes ranging from 146 GB to 450 GB capactiy.
The IBM System Storage DS6000 series is designed to provide high availability and high performance in a small, modular package. This series, along with the DS8000 series, offers an enterprise-class continuum of storage systems with shared replication services and common management interfaces. The DS6000 series systems are well suited to help you simplify your storage infrastructure, support business continuity, and optimize information lifecycle management.
