System Storage

XIV

Cost-saving enterprise storage primed for the cloud

IBM XIV is a high-end, grid-scale disk storage system that stands out for tuning-free high performance, extreme ease of use, and excellent data economics. It is ideal for cloud, offering high service levels for dynamic workloads, easy hyper-scaling including in multi-tenant environments, and flexible consumption models – and robust cloud automation and orchestration through OpenStack, RESTful API, and VMware. It offers security and data protection through advanced mirroring, hot encryption and self-healing, and XIV storage abstraction through vSphere VASA 2.0 support. Industry benchmarks underscore stellar XIV performance and cost benefits.

And now, in seamless solutions with IBM Spectrum Accelerate, the newest member of the IBM Spectrum Storage family of software defined storage, IBM XIV offers even greater operational agility across your data center while enabling rapid and cost-saving deployment of hybrid clouds.

Highlights

• Deliver consistent, tuning-free high performance and ease of use via a grid architecture
• Scale cloud storage capacity and performance linearly and manage up to 144 frames using IBM Hyper-Scale
• Offer business continuity with three-site mirroring, full redundancy, self-healing, and world-class rebuild speed
• Provide superb price performance, power and footprint efficiency, all-inclusive software licensing, and flexible acquisition options ideal for service providers
• Optionally combine with the IBM XIV-as-software product for new flexibility in cloud scaling, and data center utilization and standardization

IBM XIV Storage System is high-end, ENERGY STAR-certified data storage built to deliver out-of-the-box performance predictability, high resiliency and management simplicity ideal for cloud and big-data analytics environments. Designed to dramatically simplify storage management, XIV storage is enabling thousands of organizations worldwide – including in finance, healthcare, telecommunications and cloud services – to take control of their storage and gain business insights from their data.