Cost-effective, scale-out technologies are needed as an essential element of a client’s information infrastructure to enable Internet scale and speed for the management of vast amounts of online information within an organization and out to billions of individuals.; Businesses must be prepared for this new phase of “cloud computing,” giving consumers access to data and systems remotely, from any device, anywhere.

To meet these needs, IBM announced a series of products and offerings enabling Internet scale availability. 

There is an entirely new low cost, highly scalable disk storage system designed to handle today’s diverse mix of information - from Web 2.0 to traditional applications such as financial services.

Developed from the XIV acquisition in January, this new enterprise disk offering features a unique grid-based architecture that offers easier management, greater performance scalability, self-tuning/healing and thin provisioning to help reduce the cost and complexity of information storage while enabling consistently quick access of data for today’s dynamic range of workloads.  More information about the IBM XIV Storage System can be found here.

Designed to meet demanding mid-range data center requirements, IBM is introducing a new disk storage system which can add interfaces, increase performance, grow capacity as Internet scale demands, and be reconfigured on-the-fly. More information on the DS5000 can be found here.

IBM is also offering new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications. More information on SVC can be found here.

As a means to support storage optimization, IBM is announcing new scale out file services (SOFS), flexible storage virtualization services that will help alleviate data storage challenges by enabling quick implementation of highly scalable, global, clustered network attached storage systems.  More information on SOFS can be found here.

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