Business Benefits

The IBM XIV Storage System delivers excellent business benefits across the board, enabling IT teams to do more, provide better services to enterprise users, and spend less.

Here's how IBM XIV lets you do more:

• Its single architecture provides a cost-effective and powerful solution for all storage needs
• Multiple differential snapshots with consistent high performance enable a multi-generation logical backup solution
• Revolutionary snapshotting improves and simplifies backup, software testing, and more

... provide better service:

• Built-in virtualization and easy management enable responsive SAN services – giving users what they want and without delay
• Better performance creates better service organization-wide and reduces efforts in maintaining performance levels
• Outstanding reliability reduces enormously the risk of data loss
• Higher availability prevents business lost to downtime

... save more:

• The system yields outstanding power, cooling, and space efficiencies per TB, due to its use of enterprise-class, very high density slower rotation (VHDSR) drives and optimization of disk capacity
• Thin provisioning, powerful snapshot features, and easy management – all of which streamline system overhead -- further help reduce overall costs

... scale with power:

• XIV technology is scalable in all key aspects, including storage, interfaces, cache, CPU power, and internal bandwidth
• As a result, any increase in XIV capacity yields a linear increase in the number/amount of spindles, CPU, cache, and connectivity, increasing performance and fast information access even as data volumes grow
• Most enterprise systems on the market today scale in capacity only; the ability to increase performance with capacity is an XIV differentiator