The IBM TotalStorage portfolio of solutions offers options to consolidate storage that can scale up with large–capacity storage products, or scale out with rack–and–stack products that grow modularly. These capabilities match the scale–up and scale–out capabilities of IBM eServer servers.
Key offerings
>Disk storage consolidation
IBM TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 systems Disk systems designed to deliver advanced functionality at a breakthrough price. An exceptional solution for workgroup storage applications such as e–mail, file, print and Web servers, as well as collaborative databases and remote boot for diskless servers.
IBM TotalStorage DS4000 series Attractively priced, midrange storage systems for heterogeneous UNIX® and Windows® environments. The IBM TotalStorage DS4000 series is designed to offer attractive price, performance and functions for open systems and offers an outstanding opportunity to cut the costs that often exist in these environments.
IBM TotalStorage DS6000 series Enterprise storage featuring open systems and mainframe support with a small size and price. The IBM TotalStorage DS6000 series uses Power Architecture™ technology to set a new standard in packaging, price–performance and functionality using basically the same base operating environment, management interfaces and copy functions as the IBM TotalStorage DS8000 series. This “enterprise continuum” of disk arrays offers opportunities to consolidate other, older IBM and non–IBM storage to cut costs and improve service levels.
IBM TotalStorage DS8000 series Enterprise–class disk systems to address the challenges of the most demanding IT environments by setting new standards in functionality, model–to–model upgradeability and performance. The IBM TotalStorage DS8000 series sets a new standard in low total cost of ownership (TCO). The dual–clustered server–based architecture of the DS8000 series takes advantage of POWER5™ server technology to support linear scalability, outstanding performance, and storage system LPARs complete configurations. Adding to this is a four–year warranty, a visible proof point that the DS8000 series "changes the game" in low total cost of ownership.
Enterprise tape storage Data archiving, backup and disaster recovery solutions. IBM tape products are designed to offer high performance, availability, reliability and capacity to meet your data archiving, backup and disaster recovery needs.
IBM TotalStorage 3494 Tape Library An excellent solution for today’s large storage requirements. The IBM TotalStorage 3494 tape library supports up to 128 open system host attachments and up to 64 open servers, offering new opportunities to significantly cut the costs of tape storage.
IBM TotalStorage 3584 Tape Library The IBM TotalStorage 3584 tape library supports tape drive intermix for LTO 1, LTO 2 and 3592 in a single automation platform, lower cost entry configurations with on demand upgrade options, and an advanced library management system. The management system offers flexible partitioning and configuration capabilities to improve asset utilization and sharing. The 3584 capabilities offer further opportunities to improve efficiency and lower long–term tape storage costs.
