IBM today announced new offerings and enhancements across its disk and tape portfolio to help clients manage growth, complexity and risk across their information infrastructure.
"IBM's offerings provide the leading technologies and solutions for storage, servers, software and services - to address the challenges and realities IT customers are facing," said Barry Rudolph, Vice President, Storage Solutions, IBM. "These new disk and virtual tape storage offerings and enhancements we are announcing will further enable customers of all sizes to maintain highly resilient, high-performance, next generation information infrastructures."
Today, IBM introduced new software for its N series portfolio of products, new virtual tape solutions and new switch offerings - all built to enable customers to adapt rapidly to new and emerging storage requirements.
These new IBM System Storage offerings are an important part of the information infrastructure strategy - delivering the availability, security, retention and compliance requirements that clients seek. This strategy maps directly to IBM's New Enterprise Data Center model, which helps clients improve IT efficiency and facilitates the rapid deployment of new IT services for future business growth. The new model is based on best practices for virtualization, green IT, service management and cloud computing.
Unmatched Virtual Tape Performance
IBM announced the next generation of the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7530 which provides high performance and scalable tape virtualization solutions to support growing customer environments.Open systems tape virtualization clients today are looking to increase performance and lower disk storage. The TS7530 will enable clients to integrate functions like HW compression which support faster backup of data. In addition, with new support for 1TB Drives, clients get additional disk capacity at a lower price per GB. The TS7530 now supports RAID 6 and System i BRMS integration.
New Software for N series
IBM announced new software and hardware offerings for its N series line of products.IBM N series Provisioning Manager Software is available on the N3000 Express, N3700, N5000 series, N7000 series machines. This easy-to-use application enables IT administrators to use policy-based automation to help reduce the time spent on complex, manual provisioning tasks. Its simplifies storage provisioning while ensuring the provisioning process is repeatable, scalable and auditable to mitigate the risk of data loss due storage configuration errors.Designed to address some of the most difficult data access and data management problems, the new IBM N series FlexCache Software can scale performance for large compute farms, accelerate access for remote offices and simplify management of tiered storage. This new software for the N3000 Express, N5000 series, N7000 series creates a flexible, horizontally scalable caching layer within the storage infrastructure that automatically adapts to changing usage patterns to eliminate bottlenecks.
The new N series FlexScale software with the Performance Acceleration Module is available on the N7000, N5300 and N5600 appliance and gateway systems as a performance enhancing 16GB accelerator card that helps protect customer investments by providing an economical way to increase performance of existing systems or maximize new system performance. It is designed to maximize application performance supported by N series storage systems.
New SAN Offerings
For small, mid-sized and enterprise customers IBM is announcing three new b-type switches, the IBM System Storage SAN24B-4, SAN40B-4 and SAN80B-4. Each switch supports faster data transfer with 8 Gbps link speeds, key for implementing the right technology today to support future server and storage needs. Less power is needed with faster data transfer speeds as well. The switches have higher port counts (up to 24, 40 and 80 ports) for greater scalability.
IBM announced three new switch blades for the IBM Total Storage SAN256B director which also support up to 8 Gbps link speeds. For SMB customers, the IBM System Storage SAN04B-R, a 4-port router, will enable cost-efficient business continuity solutions using distance-extension over the Internet for SMB customers.
For the channel, IBM announced the Cisco MDS 9124 Express for IBM System Storage Fabric Switch which is preferred by IBM Business Partners who sell IBM BladeCenter and System x servers.
Pricing and Availability
- The IBM N series Provisioning Manager Software will be generally available on June 13, 2008 with a starting price of $680.00.
- The IBM N series FlexCache Software will be generally available on June 6, 2008 is a no charge feature of N series systems with the NFS protocol license.
- The IBM N series FlexScale Software with the Performance Acceleration Module will be generally available on August 8, 2008 with an entry configuration price of $42,200.
- The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7530 will be generally available on June 6, 2008 with an entry configuration price of $251,000.
- The IBM System Storage SAN24B-4, SAN40B-4 and SAN80B-4 switches will be generally available on May 23, 2008 with the starting price of $5,360.
- The Cisco MDS 9124 Express for IBM System Storage Fabric Switch will be generally available on June 13, 2008 with a starting price of $5,830.
All offerings announced today are available either direct from IBM or through IBM Business Partners. IBM Global Financing (IGF), the lending and leasing business segment of IBM can provide competitive rates to qualified applicants to access these new offerings. For more information, payment calculators and information about the benefits of financing visit the IGF website, www.ibm.com/financing.
For more information about IBM and IBM System Storage, visit http://www.ibm.com/storage .
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"IBM's offerings provide the leading technologies and solutions for storage, servers, software and services - to address the challenges and realities IT customers are facing," said Barry Rudolph, Vice President, Storage Solutions, IBM. "These new disk and virtual tape storage offerings and enhancements we are announcing will further enable customers of all sizes to maintain highly resilient, high-performance, next generation information infrastructures."
Today, IBM introduced new software for its N series portfolio of products, new virtual tape solutions and new switch offerings - all built to enable customers to adapt rapidly to new and emerging storage requirements.
These new IBM System Storage offerings are an important part of the information infrastructure strategy - delivering the availability, security, retention and compliance requirements that clients seek. This strategy maps directly to IBM's New Enterprise Data Center model, which helps clients improve IT efficiency and facilitates the rapid deployment of new IT services for future business growth. The new model is based on best practices for virtualization, green IT, service management and cloud computing.
Unmatched Virtual Tape Performance
IBM announced the next generation of the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7530 which provides high performance and scalable tape virtualization solutions to support growing customer environments.Open systems tape virtualization clients today are looking to increase performance and lower disk storage. The TS7530 will enable clients to integrate functions like HW compression which support faster backup of data. In addition, with new support for 1TB Drives, clients get additional disk capacity at a lower price per GB. The TS7530 now supports RAID 6 and System i BRMS integration.
New Software for N series
IBM announced new software and hardware offerings for its N series line of products.IBM N series Provisioning Manager Software is available on the N3000 Express, N3700, N5000 series, N7000 series machines. This easy-to-use application enables IT administrators to use policy-based automation to help reduce the time spent on complex, manual provisioning tasks. Its simplifies storage provisioning while ensuring the provisioning process is repeatable, scalable and auditable to mitigate the risk of data loss due storage configuration errors.Designed to address some of the most difficult data access and data management problems, the new IBM N series FlexCache Software can scale performance for large compute farms, accelerate access for remote offices and simplify management of tiered storage. This new software for the N3000 Express, N5000 series, N7000 series creates a flexible, horizontally scalable caching layer within the storage infrastructure that automatically adapts to changing usage patterns to eliminate bottlenecks.
The new N series FlexScale software with the Performance Acceleration Module is available on the N7000, N5300 and N5600 appliance and gateway systems as a performance enhancing 16GB accelerator card that helps protect customer investments by providing an economical way to increase performance of existing systems or maximize new system performance. It is designed to maximize application performance supported by N series storage systems.
New SAN Offerings
For small, mid-sized and enterprise customers IBM is announcing three new b-type switches, the IBM System Storage SAN24B-4, SAN40B-4 and SAN80B-4. Each switch supports faster data transfer with 8 Gbps link speeds, key for implementing the right technology today to support future server and storage needs. Less power is needed with faster data transfer speeds as well. The switches have higher port counts (up to 24, 40 and 80 ports) for greater scalability.
IBM announced three new switch blades for the IBM Total Storage SAN256B director which also support up to 8 Gbps link speeds. For SMB customers, the IBM System Storage SAN04B-R, a 4-port router, will enable cost-efficient business continuity solutions using distance-extension over the Internet for SMB customers.
For the channel, IBM announced the Cisco MDS 9124 Express for IBM System Storage Fabric Switch which is preferred by IBM Business Partners who sell IBM BladeCenter and System x servers.
Pricing and Availability
- The IBM N series Provisioning Manager Software will be generally available on June 13, 2008 with a starting price of $680.00.
- The IBM N series FlexCache Software will be generally available on June 6, 2008 is a no charge feature of N series systems with the NFS protocol license.
- The IBM N series FlexScale Software with the Performance Acceleration Module will be generally available on August 8, 2008 with an entry configuration price of $42,200.
- The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7530 will be generally available on June 6, 2008 with an entry configuration price of $251,000.
- The IBM System Storage SAN24B-4, SAN40B-4 and SAN80B-4 switches will be generally available on May 23, 2008 with the starting price of $5,360.
- The Cisco MDS 9124 Express for IBM System Storage Fabric Switch will be generally available on June 13, 2008 with a starting price of $5,830.
All offerings announced today are available either direct from IBM or through IBM Business Partners. IBM Global Financing (IGF), the lending and leasing business segment of IBM can provide competitive rates to qualified applicants to access these new offerings. For more information, payment calculators and information about the benefits of financing visit the IGF website, www.ibm.com/financing.
For more information about IBM and IBM System Storage, visit http://www.ibm.com/storage .
IBM, System Storage, and the IBM logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. For a list of additional IBM trademarks, see www.ibm.com/...
