Performance

Performance Reinvented!

One of the major requirements of IT teams today is providing users and applications with adequate performance levels. This task is growing increasingly difficult as demand for high performance grows, extracting performance from current systems becomes more complex, and budgets for storage systems and administrative resources diminish.

The XIV system provides an outstanding solution to today's performance requirements by several means:

• Mass parallelism – The system exploits all system components to the fullest while perfectly balancing load between all disks and modules
• Innovative cache architecture – The system's innovative distributed cache architecture directly leads to improved cache performance
• CPU power – The system equips each data module with its own processing power, supplying enormous CPU for complex caching and snapshot management. IBM XIV also provides dual processors in its data modules that contain interface connectivity, adding up to 30% increase in performance, depending on workloads.
• Consistent performance – The system maintains high performance even during failure of any component
• High performance with snapshots – The system maintains consistent high performance during differential snapshots and other snapshot activities