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IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo

The IBM System Storage™ DS8700 is the most advanced model in IBM’s DS8000® lineup and introduces new dual IBM POWER6®-based controllers that usher in a new level of performance for the company’s flagship enterprise disk platform. With overall performance improving up to over 2.5x, the new DS8700 is designed to support the most demanding business applications with its superior data throughput, unparalleled resiliency features and five-nines availability 1. In today’s dynamic, global business environment, where organizations like yours need information be reliably available around the clock and with minimal delay, can you really afford not to run your business on the DS8000 series? Moreover, with its tremendous scalability, flexible tiered storage options, broad server support, and support for advanced IBM deduplication technology, the DS8000 can help simplify the storage environment by consolidating multiple storage systems onto a single system while providing the availability and performance you’ve come to trust for your most important business applications.

Highlights

• Performance: New dual IBM POWER6-based controllers, PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) Generation 2 internal component interconnect, and device adapter cards enable up to over 2.5 times performance improvement over previous models.
• Availability & Resiliency: Greater than five-nines availability1 with redundant, hot-swappable components, faster concurrent microcode updates, and a steady, 10-year lineage of microcode improvements built on the IBM POWER server architecture.
• Flexibility & Scalability: Clients can scale up from the smallest configuration to the largest configuration nondisruptively by upgrading drive capacity, host adapters, drive adapters, memory, and even the system’s processor complexes.
• Consolidation: Manage growth and reduce operational complexity through consolidation with high-performance solid-state drives, enterprise fibre channel drives, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) drives, advanced management capabilities, support for advanced IBM deduplication technology, and thin provisioning.
• Security: Protect sensitive information from internal and external threats with innovative self-encrypting disk drives that can help address PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance requirements.
• Investment Protection: Exceptional total cost of ownership with Enterprise Choice warranties of up to four years on both hardware and advanced function software, while preserving client investments in prior models with full interoperability of hard drives, drive enclosures, tools, scripts, and copy services.

Common features

• Disk packages containing 16 disks ranging from 73 GB up to 1 TB disk capacities (solid-state, fibre channel, and SATA)
• IBM System Storage FlashCopy, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, Metro/Global Mirror and Global Copy provide flexible replication services to address your backup and disaster planning needs
•  IBM System Storage Productivity Center centralizes heterogeneous storage management with an easy-to-use graphical interface
•  IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager offers application-aware backup and restore capabilities.

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