Low Total Cost of Ownership
TCO Reinvented!
The IBM XIV Storage System stands apart, architected in its entirety to provide high reliability and performance at strikingly low total cost of ownership. Its ability to offer low TCO is the outcome of several inherent characteristics:
- A fully virtualized, self-managed, self-healing system that balances load perfectly at all times, optimizing capacity use and minimizing human intervention and error
- Provided with a built-in features set, including differential snapshots, remote mirroring, and thin provisioning
- Easily managed through a simple graphical user interface (GUI) that minimizes storage management overhead
- Built entirely of standard components, including low-cost, very high density slower rotation disks (VHDSR)
- Enables non-disruptive changes to hardware and firmware, without affecting performance and without need for downtime
- Full hardware redundancy lowers risk of failure to negligible levels
- A single-tier platform based on a grid architecture, for easy scaling
The unique combination of the above built-in characteristics enables the IBM XIV Storage System to provide a huge TCO advantage in comparison with other enterprise storage systems.
