Disk
High-End Disk
The IBM System Storage range of high-end disk products offer high-availability, high-capacity storage systems designed to deliver a generation-skipping leap in performance, scalability, resiliency, and total value.
Created specifically for the critical workloads of medium and large enterprises, the product range helps consolidate system storage, simplify storage management, and support system availability to meet your business needs.
Products such as the DS6000 series and DS8000 series are designed to provide exceptional performance whilst adding virtualisation capabilities that can assist you in allocating system resources more effectively and achieve improved control application quality of service. They also offer powerful data backup, remote mirroring and recovery functions that can help protect data from unforeseen events.
Mid-Range Disk
IBM offers a full range of disk products within a single storage family to help you select the right solutions for your needs. This family includes the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS), System Storage DS3000 series, System Storage DS4000 series (formerly FAStT), and System Storage DS6000 and DS8000 series disk subsystems.
In a continuing effort to provide storage solutions designed to provide low total cost of ownership, high performance, robust functionality, and unparalleled ease of use, IBM offers the DS4000 range aimed at mid-range/departmental storage requirements.
Most of the storage servers in the DS4000 Series provide high system availability through the use of hot-swappable and redundant components. This is crucial when the storage server is placed in high-end customer environments such as server consolidation on Storage Area Networks (SANs). Most models offer autonomic functions such as Dynamic Volume Expansion and Dynamic Capacity Addition, allowing unused storage to be brought online without stopping operations.
Entry Level Disk
IBM’s entry level disk products are designed to deliver advanced resilience, robustness and functionality at an affordable price. These storage systems offer an outstanding solution for workgroup storage applications such as email, file and print, web servers and database systems. They can also be used for diskless servers, providing remote boot disks.
All of the above storage systems address the crucial needs of small to medium businesses managing the increasing demand for data capacity and availability.