A new midrange disk system with built-in storage efficiency capabilities
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM has introduced the Storwize V7000, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance—all integrated into a compact, modular design that’s offered at a competitive, midrange price.
Storwize V7000 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 Storwize V7000 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.
Storwize V7000 incorporates some of IBM’s leading technologies typically found in only 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.
It simplifies management with a groundbreaking GUI that is both powerful and easy to use. This interface can help organisations improve storage performance, efficiency and utilisation rates whilst improving storage administrator productivity and includes the following features:
- Preinstalled software
- Simplified provisioning
- Online data migration
- Simplified application performance tuning
By integrating IBM storage efficiency technologies into a modular design that simplifies the addition of more storage such as:
- Thin provisioning
- Space-efficient FlashCopy
- Easy tier
