A new midrange disk system with built-in storage efficiency capabilities
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technology, IBM is introducing the IBM® Storwize® V7000 system, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, exceptional ease of use and performance—all integrated into a compact, modular design that’s offered at a competitive, midrange price.
The IBM Storwize V7000 system incorporates some of IBM’s top technology, typically found only in enterprise-class storage systems, raising the standard for storage efficiency in midrange disk systems. This cutting-edge storage system extends the comprehensive storage portfolio from IBM and can help change the way organisations address the ongoing information explosion.
Easy
The IBM Storwize V7000 system simplifies storage management with a powerful, easy-to-use interface that can help organisations improve storage performance, efficiency, and utilisation rates while improving storage administrator productivity. The IBM Storwize V7000 system includes the following features for ease of use:
- Preinstalled software
- Simplified provisioning
- Online data migration
- Simplified remote mirroring
- Simplified application performance tuning
- Event monitoring
Fast
The IBM Storwize V7000 system helps organisations deploy solid-state storage confidently, effectively and economically. The IBM Storwize V7000 system provides the following performance features:
- Proven industry benchmarks
- Multiple storage tiers
- Performance management
- Storage virtualisation
- System Storage Easy Tier technology that provides automated storage tiering for SSD optimisation
Efficient
The IBM Storwize V7000 system integrates top IBM storage efficiency technologies into a modular design that simplifies the addition of more storage technologies. Greater efficiency translates into reduced energy costs, reduced administrative costs and less storage sprawl. The IBM Storwize V7000 system efficiency highlights include the following:
- Storage virtualisation
- Thin provisioning
- Space-efficient FlashCopy
- Cross-tier data migration, mirroring and FlashCopy
- Storage resource management
Cost-effective
The IBM Storwize V7000 system has a dynamic, modular, compact design that sets a new standard for cost-effective midrange disk systems. Instead of buying a whole cabinet and then filling it with disk enclosures over time, the IBM Storwize V7000 system uses individual, modular components providing organisations with reduced space requirements and more flexibility. Capacity and functionality can be added as needed, over time and with less disruption than with traditional midrange disk systems.


