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

In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource constraints—both physical storage resources and human resources—IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure. Unchecked complexity and growth will only become bigger problems over time.

Small and midsize organizations also may suffer from a range of challenges:

• Disruptive migrations
• Difficulty deploying tiered storage
• Inability to share storage among servers
• Reduced productivity and increased cost caused by isolated server and storage management tools
• Inability to use virtualized storage, like virtual servers, as a tool for optimizing expenditures, resources and capabilities