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The IBM System Storage N series products are designed to meet the needs of customers who desire a unified storage solution where a single storage system has the capability of supporting mission critical applications using Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS protocols. One N series storage system instead of three separate boxes can help simplify IT device management. The unique unified storage architecture of N series is intended to help organizations reduce investment, operational and management costs by reducing complexity.
All IBM N series systems utilize a single operating system across the entire portfolio to help minimize the IT storage skills required. A combination of multiple advanced function software features provide one of the industry's most versatile storage platform solutions ranging from comprehensive system management, storage management, onboard and outboard copy services, virtualization technologies and disaster recovery and backup solutions. The N series products provide a wide range of network attachment capabilities to a broad range of host and client systems using a multitude of network access protocols including file system protocols (CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP) and block I/O protocols including iSCSI and FCP.
In addition, the N series portfolio of products offers ease-of-use tools that help customers manage application environments like VMware, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft SQL, Oracle and SAP. Patented RAID-DP helps ensure the highest availability and recovery capabilities while using inexpensive SATA disk drive technology. The IBM System Storage N series portfolio products are designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing demand for storing company assets in small, medium and enterprise environments. Designed for continuous availability and multifaceted deployments, the N series portfolio is simply one of the most versatile storage platforms in the industry today.
IBM System Storage N3000 Modular Disk Storage System
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IBM System Storage N3000 Modular Disk Storage System are designed to provide primary and secondary storage for midsize enterprises. N3000 systems offer integrated block-level and file-level data access, intelligent management software, data protection capabilities, and scalability to 104TBs of raw capacity —in a cost-effective package. Furthermore, IBM N3000 series innovations include internal controller support for Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) or SATA drives, expandable I/O connectivity and onboard remote management
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IBM System Storage N5000 series modular enterprise storage systems
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The IBM System Storage N5000 series is designed to deliver high-end enterprise storage and data management value with midrange affordability. Built-in enterprise serviceability and manageability features support your efforts to increase reliability, simplify and unify storage infrastructure and maintenance and deliver exceptional economy.
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IBM System Storage N6000 series
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The IBM System Storage N6000 series offers excellent performance and impressive scalability with a low total cost of ownership. The IBM N6000 systems support simultaneous host attachment via CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. The IBM N6040 system supports up to 420 disk drives with a maximum raw capacity of 420 TB, and the IBM N6070 system supports up to 840 disk drives for a maximum raw capacity of 840 TB. The IBM N6060 system supports up to 672 disk drives for a maximum raw capacity of 672 TB. The IBM N6000 series supports attachment to a broad range of IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR and HP storage subsystems, including the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) series, IBM DS8000 and DS4000 series ordered through its Gateway feature.
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IBM System Storage Gateway
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The IBM System Storage™ N series Gateway product line is a network-based unified storage solution designed to provide Internet Protocol (IP) and Fibre Channel (FC) protocol access to SAN-attached heterogeneous storage arrays. The N6000 and N7000 series ordered with a Gateway feature code can help you make the most of the dynamic provisioning capabilities of Data ONTAP® software across your existing Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure to support an expanded set of business applications.
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IBM System Storage N7000 Modular Disk Storage System
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Designed to offer outstanding performance and expandability, the IBM System Storage N7000 series delivers high-end enterprise storage and data management value with midrange affordability.
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a - Max. capacity is derived based on the type, size, and number of the drives. Max. capacity and volume size are calculated using Base10 arithmetic (i.e., 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes).
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