Storage is big … and getting bigger!
The world’s appetite for information, and backing it up, means that it’s more than doubling every two years, almost out-stripping the growth of storage capacity. Two trillion gigabytes (two zettabytes) will be created and replicated this year according to some reports!
This has been a slow building process over many years, with no immediate sign that the trend is slowing or reversing. Organisations needing a robust, scalable storage solution have typically had to deploy expensive enterprise storage solutions that generated a relatively high cost per unit of business, as well as a hybrid mix of assorted solutions from multiple vendors.
So how do you deploy current sophisticated storage functionality quickly and economically across a range of legacy storage and retain value from this significant investment?
Recently IBM has changed the storage landscape by releasing an innovative, integrated and affordable mid-range disk system designed to provide extreme functionality at an affordable cost. IBM Storwize V7000 includes functionality traditionally found only at the expensive enterprise level of the market.
Through the use of smart, easy to use software and state-of-the-art hardware design, IBM has shown the IBM Storwize V7000 can generate quantifiable cost savings when compared to other storage systems in almost every TCO category including hardware and hardware maintenance, software and software maintenance, and support costs.
Storage virtualisation – aggregates storage components - such as disks, controllers, and storage networks - in a co-ordinated way to share them more efficiently among the applications served.
Thin provisioning – optimises utilisation of storage to eliminate almost all whitespace and helps increase untilisation rates, leading to greatly reduced capital and operational costs.
Automated tiering – enables faster search results and can reduce the cost of storing data by efficiently leveraging the Solid State Drives (SSD), while the lower value data is allocated to slower more inexpensive disks.
Simplified GUI – this is designed to reduce the complexity of advanced storage features for IT administrators. It makes it easier for mid-market companies with limited IT resources to benefit from the latest technology .
Protection of Investment* – allows your current storage to be technology-immune with the ability to add the latest technology to the V7000 as it hits the market.
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Get up to speed now on how to protect your existing storage investment and save on future costs by clicking this link for V7000 Whitepaper or simply go to the current offers via Eagle Technology
