IBM Philippines announced one of the single largest expansions of its storage portfolio with the introduction of new and faster systems, enhanced products across its product storage line, and a new Enterprise Choice warranty service option for the IBM System Storage DS6000 series. Spanning IBM’s high-end disk systems, as well as its N series portfolio, data retention solutions, and offerings for SMBs, the new and enhanced storage products are designed to provide customers with increased performance and management capabilities, infrastructure simplification, and lower costs.
DS8000
At the high-end, IBM is introducing the new IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo models, updating its flagship DS8000 series. The new models – the IBM System Storage DS8100 Turbo and DS8300 Turbo systems – are based on POWER5+ processors, and demonstrate a performance improvement of up to 15 percent for transaction processing workload environments, as compared to the previous IBM System Storage DS8000 storage system. The addition of 4Gbps Fibre Channel and FICON technology allows for the reduction of the number of network resources supporting simplified management and reduced infrastructure costs. With this offering, IBM is now the first vendor to deliver 4Gbps FICON support.
Additional features of the IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo models include improved tiered storage options, functions to enable greater performance and efficiency for DB2 applications on IBM System p servers, and support for three-site business continuity solutions that reaches greater distances and requires less network bandwidth than competing systems.
DS6000
IBM is also announcing enhancements to the IBM System Storage DS6000, which will now also support low cost Fibre Channel ATA drives (FATA), tiered storage options and TPC for Replication. Based on customer requests, the DS6000 Series will also come with one year standard warranty and the option for customers to take advantage of a new flexible Enterprise Choice option for warranty extensions, which allows customers to choose a 24X7 warranty for an additional one year to three years in one-year increments when ordered at the time of original purchase.
IBM System Storage N7000 Series
IBM also announced the next major step in its relationship with Network Appliance Inc. with the introduction of high-end enterprise and gateway solutions. With the new IBM System Storage N7000 family, IBM has introduced a complete line of unified storage products based on NetApp technology designed to provide end-to-end solutions for environments needing enterprise class NAS, FC SAN, and iSCSI offerings, from the smallest of businesses to the largest data centers.
The N series models, IBM System Storage N7600 and N7800, offer Fibre Channel and SATA disk drive support and provide simultaneous NAS, iSCSI and 4Gbps FC SAN (FCP) attachment. Additionally, they offer over 35 advanced software features and are scalable up to 504 terabytes of physical capacity. The enterprise gateway models, IBM System Storage N7600 and N7800 Gateways, utilize the same technology as the enterprise appliance models and include an option of attachment to IBM, Hitachi and HP storage subsystems. These high-end enterprise solutions are designed to enable customers to consolidate large amounts of IP attached storage under one single point of management.
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