Technology-based solutions
IBM is a trusted partner offering agile System Storage solutions that deliver the performance, reliability and long-term investment protection that you need to compete in today's dynamic business environment and to be prepared for growth in the future.
Cost effective and highly utilised storage infrastructure
IBM System Storage with SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is designed to support a tiered storage environment in which the cost of storage can be better matched to the value of data while combining storage capacity from multiple heterogeneous disk systems. This creates a single reservoir of capacity that can be better managed as a business resource across all tiers and drive down storage costs.
SVC features enable administrators to implement tiered storage to optimise storage device selection and management without impacting ongoing operations. This is designed to reduce overall storage costs. Virtualisation can also allow you to achieve dramatic reductions in energy consumption while maintaining high perofrmance. And by increasing utilisation of storage through SVC, customers can significantly increase energy savings.
IBM's flagship storage virtualisation solution (SVC) has achieved benchmark results through the Storage Performance Council (SPC), demonstrating that it is the highest performing storage virtualisation solution in the world today - with speeds over 75 percent above its predecessor.[2] A recent study of SVC customers by Forrester Consulting [1] found that SVC can help improve storage utilisation by as much as 30 percent and helps reduce storage growth by as much as 20 percent IBM has more than 9,000 SVC engine running in more than 3,100 SVC Systems worldwide - making it the most successful and mature storage virtualisation solution on the market today.
Superior remote copy services
The design of the IBM DS8000 enables IBM's remote disk mirroring solutions offers many significant cost advantages. IBM's Global Mirror for the DS8000 series, for example, is designed to help minimise peak bandwidth use of continuous, ongoing data transmission. This is designed to help greatly reduce your telecommunications costs.
Secure solutions
Securing customer and business data is of critical importance, especially with growing compliance requirements. IBM now offers you the industry's first tape drive based encryption for the enterprise,3 the latest entry in an already extensive portfolio of security products from IBM. Encrypting data at drive level avoids the need for host-based data encryption—which can drain host performance—or the use of specialised encryption appliances.
Flexibility to help you manage growth
IBM System Storage offers an extraordinary range of solutions that are designed to meet your needs now and into the future.
- IBM Systems storage DS4000 is available in models scalable to 168TB of raw capacity allowing for storage growth as your customer needs dictate and the performance to make the storage compliment the application. The DS4800 is the highest performing storage controller in it's class with 2x the I/O capability of EMC and HP storage
- IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) builds on this by providing the ability to combine multiple IBM and even non IBM disk storage devices providing a multi-tier single point of management for practically unlimited scalability and support for up to 1024 servers
- IBM System p™ AIX® and DS8000 both support SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) long busy wait, which can help reduce unnecessary requests and potential I/O failures for exceeding retry limits.
- Cooperative caching allows more efficient use of the aggregate memory resources of both the host and the storage system
- HACMP-XD provides integrated support for DS8000 Metro Mirror to coordinate server failover with disk system remote mirroring for enhanced availability.
- A HyperPAV option helps IBM System z servers running z/OS to issue more I/O requests in parallel, potentially improving application performance and requiring less system resources than the previous PAV feature.
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DMX-3 hardware and operating environment |
DS8000 hardware and operating environment |
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2 years standard warranty. '90 days for licensed software'. |
Flexible warranty: 1, 2, 3, and 4 years available. |
| Mid-range disk |
CLARiiON hardware and operating environment |
DS4000™ hardware and operating environment |
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3 years |
3 years |
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| Enterprise and other software |
Other DMX-3 and CLARiiON software |
Content Manager, TPM, TSM |
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90 days standard warranty |
1 year |
| Virtualisation |
Invista |
SVC hardware and software |
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2 years hardware |
1 year |
| Document retention |
Centera |
DR 550 |
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1 year |
3 years |
* Warranty (US)
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Migrate to |
EMC Symmetrix
DMX |
IBM DS8000 |
| EMC Symmetrix |
IBM DS8000 |
EMC CLARiiON
CX |
IBM DS4700 or DS4800 |
| EMC Centera |
DR550 |
EMC Control Centre
CX 300 with SATA
Invista |
IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Centre
DS 4200
SAN Volume Controller |
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W & W Informatik needed outstanding IT performance and reliability to service an industry that demands it. Existing storage systems were causing data processing bottlenecks, and the company wanted to find cost-effective ways to move ahead of the competition. DS8000 was the solution.
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With IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server® devices and IBM System Storage McDATA SAN Fibre Channel Switches, a healthcare system gains 24x7 performance and availability for its new picture archiving and communication system (PACS) |
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1 IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drives, IBM Data Encryption Newscenter—IBM System Storage, http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/enewscast/
data_encryption/index.html, accessed 1/5/07, Text: "IBM Tape Data Encryption solution: the industry's first comprehensive tape-security solution."
2 Projected 4-year total storage cost for IBM DX systems vs EMC DMX equivalents for large organisations, "Value Proposition for IBM TotalStorage® DS Systems: Business Case for Controlling Enterprise Storage Costs," International Technology Group, January 2006 (Please note that the results for Mid-sized organisations were even better; we chose the more conservative projections, for Large organisations), Text on page 1 under "Large organisations" heading: "Four –year costs for scenarios built around sample IBM DS systems deployments for three large storage installations are projected to range from 22.3 percent to 28.1 percent less, and to average 24.4 percent less than those for EMC DMX equivalents.", additional Text on page 4, under heading "Warranty and Pricing Policies": "Lower four-year DS8000 and DS6800 systems costs are due, to a large extent, to differences in EMC and IBM warranty and pricing policies. DS8000 system hardware is covered by four-year IBM warranties (i.e., there are no maintenance costs for these systems during the four-year period used for cost measurement), compared to two years for DMX systems."
3 Press Release access on Yahoo Finance Web page, Text from first paragraph: "IBM (NYSE:IBM – News) today announced that the IBM System Storage DS8300 Turbo, introduced on August 22, 2006, is the fastest enterprise class storage system in the industry as measured by the Storage Performance Council's SPC-1 Benchmark™, outperforming the previous DS8300 SPC-1 Results by 22 percent.".
4 "A00049, DS8300 Turbo" on the SPC Web site, Link: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/
benchmark_results_all#a00043
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