Low Total Cost of Ownership

TCO Factors

A storage system’s total cost is far reaching, involving many factors:

• Buying, implementing, running, cooling, and expanding the system
• Managing, integrating, and testing the system
• Efforts to ensure the system’s reliability and availability
• Downtime caused by routine maintenance or unexpected equipment failure
• Costs spent unnecessarily due to slowness in adopting newer technologies
• Software licensing (upfront costs, as well as upon each addition of capacity)

The IBM XIV Storage System stands apart, architected in its entirety to provide high reliability and performance at strikingly low total cost of ownership.