IBM Storwize V5000 SAN 2078-24E 2078-24C 2078-12E 2078-12C

IBM Storwize V5000 is a highly flexible, easy to use, SAN storage system that enables large and midsized businesses to meet the challenges of rapid data growth and limited IT budgets. The IBM Storwize V5000 is available in four different models, the 2078-24E, 2078-24C, 2078-12E and 2078-12C. Organizations of all sizes are faced with a tidal wave of data coming from new sources, including sensors, social media, mobile platforms and more.  Storwize V5000 offers an optional IBM FlashCopy function designed to create an almost-instant copy of active data, which can be used for backup purposes or for parallel- processing activities.  Data has become the new currency of business, their most critical asset. With flexible licensing options, Storwize V5000 makes it easy to deploy complementary solutions, such as IBM ProtecTIER.  To maximize the benefits of growing data, businesses are turning to software-defined environments, which can provide flexibility and responsiveness to business demands.

See how the new IBM Storwize V5000 can give you a highly flexible and virtualized storage solution for supporting software-defined environments and virtual infrastructures.

Highlights

• Simplify management with an industry-leading graphical user interface
• Easily customize your storage system with flexible software options
• Boost performance up to three times using only five percent flash storage with optional IBM® Easy Tier® technology1
• Consolidate and provide IBM Storwize® V5000 capabilities to existing storage infrastructures using optional external virtualization
• Improve network utilization for remote mirroring with innovative replication technology

Organizations of all sizes are faced with a tidal wave of data coming from myriad new sources, including sensors, social media, mobile platforms and more. Data has become the new currency of business, their most critical asset. But organizations often spend too much money and time managing where their data is stored. The average firm purchases 24 percent more storage every year,2 but uses less than half of the capacity it already has.3

To help maximize the benefits of growing amounts of data, many organizations are turning to software-defined storage, which frees data from physical storage and provides better access to applications. There are many ways to benefit from software-defined storage. One approach starts with data virtualization, which provides a software layer that helps simplify management. Data virtualization simplifies deployment of new applications and new storage tiers, eases movement of data among tiers, and enables consistent easy-to-use optimization technologies across multiple storage tiers.

In the era of cloud, big data and analytics, and mobile and social computing, organizations need to meet ever-changing demands for storage while also improving data economics. IT must deliver more services faster and more efficiently, enable real-time insight and support more customer interaction. The right infrastructure allows clients to share information, secure transactions and drive real-time insights.

The IBM Storwize family helps organizations achieve better data economics by supporting these new workloads that are critical to their success. Storwize family systems can handle the massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications, enable rapid and flexible cloud services deployments, and deliver the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.