SAN Volume Controller

• Simple and more productive management: by a single point access, anywhere on the network with a web browser
• Improve storage efficiency: better utilization of storage capacity, enabling businesses to tap into previously unused disk capacity
• Optimized Storage Tiering: New IBM System Storage® Easy Tier feature optimizes solid-state storage deployments simply and automatically
• Flexibility & Scalability: Systems can scale up without disruption from the smallest configuration to the largest
• Easier to use: With a fresh new user interface based on the popular IBM XIV® interface, SVC helps speed deployments and improve productivity even more

N Series

• Increase NAS storage flexibility and expansion capabilities. Consolidate block and file data sets onto a single multiprotocol storage platform
• Get performance when your applications need it most. High bandwidth, 64-bit architecture, and the latest I/O technologies.
• Maximize your resources. Highly efficient storage utilization makes it possible for you to dramatically reduce power, cooling, and space demands.
• Respond to growth. Preserve investments in staff expertise and capital equipment with data-in-place upgrades to more powerful N series systems.
• Improve your business efficiency. Take advantage of the N6000 series Gateway capabilities to reduce data management complexity in heterogeneous storage environments

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V7000

• IBM Storwize® V7000 delivers sophisticated enterprise-class storage function that is easy to use for midsized businesses
• Integrated IBM System Storage® Easy Tier™ function provides up to 200 percent performance improvement with automatic migration to high-performing solid state drives (SSD)
• Thin provisioning allows you to purchase only the disk capacity you need
• Dynamic migration provides continuous availability of applications while migrating critical data
• IBM FlashCopy® replication supports faster and more efficient data copies for online backup, testing or data mining
• IBM Systems Director provides flexible server and storage management capabilities
• Easy-to-use data management designed with a graphical user interface and point-and-click system management capabilities
• Metro Mirror and Global Mirror for replicating data synchronously or asynchronously between systems for backup efficiency
• Solid state drive (SSD) for applications that demand high speed and quick access to data
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10

XIV Storage Systems

The IBM XIV® Storage System is a revolutionary, easily managed, high-end, open disk system, designed to meet today’s ongoing herculean IT challenges. Its design — a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components connected in any-to-any topology using Gigabit Ethernet — represents the next generation of high-end SAN (Storage Area Networks) systems. It is the industry’s first single-architecture storage system, providing the highest level of performance, reliability and features, along with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.

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