Your employees, partners and customers need up-to-the-minute information to be able to work productively, make timely decisions and meet business goals. Your enterprise needs intelligent data and storage management capabilities to manage growth with limited administration resources.
Why N series?
The N series disk storage systems are designed to deliver high-end enterprise storage and data management value with midrange affordability. Built-in enterprise serviceability and manageability features help support your efforts to increase reliability, simplify and unify storage infrastructure and maintenance, and deliver exceptional economy.
What’s new in N series?
IBM has announced extraordinary operating system enhancements to the IBM System Storage N6000 series, offering outstanding support for N series gateways in the midrange market:
Data De–duplication availability
Performance Acceleration Module (also available for systems)
Mixed Disk LUN (MDL) feature support: Disk sanitization enablement
4 port, 4 Gbps target adapter
Advanced capacity storage expansion units will also be offered on this announcement: 450 GB 15K FC drives and SAS disk drives to strengthen N series portfolio.
IBM System Storage N6000 series, unveiled in August 2008, offers outstanding file–based and transaction-based performance with high bandwidth, 64–bit architecture and the latest I/O technologies. The N6000 is available in single and dual–node controller configurations and in raw storage capacities up to 480 TB. Features include block–level data de–duplication on NearStore® data volumes, where volume data is automatically scanned and de–duplicated, resulting in fast, efficient space savings for rapidly–growing storage needs.
IBM System Storage SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure is a comprehensive data management solution intended to streamline storage management in a VMware® ESX environment. Deployed in combination with IBM N series storage systems, SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure software helps address virtual infrastructure challenges through policies set by storage administrators. These policies are designed to deliver a unique combination of availability, scalability, performance, and reliability for the VMware ESX environment when performing hot backups, rapid restores, and disaster recovery solutions.
IBM N series Provisioning Manager enables storage administrators to set provisioning policies across the enterprise. Policy-based provisioning is repeatable, scalable, and auditable, while mitigating the risk of data loss due to storage configuration errors.
IBM N series FlexCache software creates a flexible, horizontally scalable caching layer within your storage infrastructure that automatically adapts to changing usage patterns to eliminate bottlenecks.
IBM N series FlexScale software combined with the Performance Acceleration Module, a 16 GB accelerator card, provide an economical way to increase performance of existing systems or to maximize the performance of new systems. Works for the N5300, N5600 and N7000 series systems.
IBM System Storage N3000 Express offers integrated block- and file-level data access, intelligent management software and data protection capabilities in a cost-effective, primary and secondary storage packaged for midsize enterprises.
IBM System Storage N5000 series offers unified storage architecture fully compatible with all IBM N series systems, meeting a range of storage needs from small remote office and departmental applications through the largest enterprise applications and consolidations.
IBM System Storage N7000 series is designed to deliver high-end enterprise storage, scalable capacity to over 1.1 Petabytes and data management value with midrange affordability.
