The IBM XIV® Storage System Breakthrough Next-generation enterprise-class storage at exceptionally low Total Cost of Ownership
The IBM XIV® Storage System is a revolutionary, easily managed, high-end, open disk system, designed to meet today’s ongoing herculean IT challenges. It is the industry’s first single-architecture storage system, providing the highest level of performance, reliability and features, along with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.
The IBM XIV Storage System delivers excellent business benefits across the board, enabling IT teams to do more, provide better services to enterprise users, and spend less:
- Built-in virtualization and easy management enable responsive SAN services – giving users what they want and without delay
- Better performance creates better service organization-wide and reduces efforts in maintaining performance levels
- Higher availability prevents business lost to downtime
Enabled by its grid architecture and unique redundancy scheme, the XIV system provides unprecedented reliability. These qualities immunize the system against any single failure and reduce the risk of double failure significantly below the standard.
Simplicity is fundamental to the XIV system, literally transforming the experience of storage administrators by reducing the effort of managing and monitoring storage resources. This simplicity is made possible through IBM XIV's true system virtualization, easy to use GUI and CLI, and powerful self-healing.
The IBM XIV Storage System stands apart, architected in its entirety to provide high reliability and performance at strikingly low total cost of ownership. Its ability to offer low TCO is the outcome of several inherent characteristics:
- A fully virtualized, self-managed, self-healing system that balances load perfectly at all times, optimizing capacity use and minimizing human intervention and error
- Provided with a built-in features set, including differential snapshots, remote mirroring, and thin provisioning
- Easily managed through a simple graphical user interface (GUI) that minimizes storage management overhead
- Built entirely of standard components, including low-cost, very high density slower rotation disks (VHDSR)
- Enables ,non-disruptive changes to hardware and firmware, without affecting performance and without need for downtime
A single-tier platform based on a grid architecture, for easy scaling
SUCCESS STORIES
Success Story: NaviSite
In a sense, our IT infrastructure is our product, says Mark Clayman, senior vice president of hosting services for NaviSite. “By building a best-in-class delivery platform—storage, service, networking devices and processes and tools—we can offer a level of technology and expertise that most customers can’t easily develop internally.
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Success Story: Bezeq International
Bezeq International launched its XIV® storage solution by deploying a single system for peripheral enterprise storage needs. Within a year and a half, it had expanded the solution to four systems—and Overview 300 TB of single-tier storage—and extended its scope to businesscritical applications. Discover how in this whitepaper.
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Today, Bank Leumi leverages the IBM XIV system’s single-tier architecture to consolidate storage tiers, achieve excellent performance and dramatically reduce management overhead.
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VCUHS IT management felt it imperative to standardize on a single vendor. “By then, IBM XIV was available,” Johnson recalls. “We realized that it was either the best stuff since sliced bread or just smoke and mirrors. Our need was great, so we gave it a try. During the proof of concept, we tried every possible stress test we could think of, and in a mixed workload environment. The XIV system either matched or beat the performance on our existing arrays every time.”
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IBM XIV® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented
Managing a storage system has become a costly and complicated task. The direct labour cost associated with its management is increasing. In addition, organizations incur hidden indirect costs due to slow responsiveness, ineffective utilization, and inflexibility.
This paper discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System’s revolutionary built-in virtualization architecture provides a way to drastically reduce the costs of managing storage systems.
Download the White PaperFact Sheet : IBMXIV Storage System Storage
The IBM XIV® Storage System is a ground-breaking, high-end disk system, designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. Built from a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components, it is connected in an any-to-any topology by means of massively paralleled, non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet.
Download the White PaperOptimizing Enterprise Storage Total Cost of Ownership with IBM XIV
A high-end storage system’s total cost of ownership (TCO) is like an iceberg: the vast majority of costs are hidden from view. Comparing systems by looking at obvious factors, like capacity and box price, may be easier. But taking a fuller look at the factors impacting IT budgets over a system’s lifetime will yield a more accurate TCO assessment and, ultimately, a more informed decision as to which system is truly more favourable to the company's bottom line.
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Technical Description: IBMXIV Storage System
The IBMXIV® Storage System offers a new level of high-end disk system performance and reliability. It is a core component of theIBMInformation Infrastructure which helps clients address their needs for availability, security, compliance and retention of information. The XIVsystem provides consistency under all conditions, immunity to hotspots, and consistent performance in the face of hardware failure.
Download the White PaperIBM XIV® Storage System: Thin Provisioning Reinvented
Managing IT storage infrastructure is an endless balancing act of providing enterprise-class functionality and services while controlling costs. “Thin provisioning” is the practice of allocating storage to applications on a “just-in-time” and “as needed” basis.
This document explores the benefits of thin provisioning, the XIV approach to implementing it, and other XIV capabilities that ease management and increase ROI for IT managers and storage administrators.
Download the White PaperIBM XIV® Storage System: Ideal Storage for the New Media Era
The last decade has seen a revolution in the way in which digital information is generated and organized. The IBM XIV® Storage System provides a revolutionary solution for these requirements, in that it combines unlimited scalability and unprecedented ease of management with groundbreaking TCO.
We investigate here the requirements of the new applications so as to understand why they are different from traditional requirements and how current storage architectures fall short of their needs.
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