The IBM XIV® Storage System

Image via Wikipedia The IBM XIV® Storage System is a revolutionary, easily managed, high-end, open disk system, designed to meet today’s ongoing herculean IT challenges. Its design — a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components connected in any-to-any topology using Gigabit Ethernet — represents the next generation of high-end SAN (Storage Area Networks) systems. 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 XIV system is a core component of IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet and, within that, the Information Infrastructure offering, which helps today's businesses, including SMB, increase efficiency and reduce risk while addressing availability, security, compliance, and information retention.

IBM XIV system highlights:

Low TCO – High-end storage at dramatically lower costs, by tackling and lowering the impact of all cost factors: acquisition, environmentals, administration/management, downtime, and even backup and restore. Ease of management – IBM XIV transforms and simplifies storage management through multiple design and software features. Reliability and availability – Supreme reliability and availability with a mere 30-minute or less rebuild time, enabled by near-instant self-healing and unique, grid-based, active-active with N+1 system redundancy; non-disruptive hot-swapping of hardware and firmware. Performance – High, consistent performance and hotspot-free service due to mass parallelism and perfect load balancing, eliminating distribution planning. Scalability – Non-disruptive incremental scaling from partial to full rack (27-79 TB usable); with every capacity increase, IBM XIV scales performance linearly and self-tunes automatically, ensuring high performance and fast access even as data grows. Security – IBM XIV provides Tier-1 level support for the three A's Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing – and enterprise-level user management.

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