New IBM FlashSystem Family introduced

These days, to achieve acceptable levels of insight and accuracy, analytics and AI applications are consuming enormous amounts of data. Managing, moving and storing large data volumes with great efficiency and enough performance to derive maximum value from data assets requires a modern IT infrastructure with wide-ranging capabilities, from intelligent system optimization and powerful data reduction, through comprehensive security and encryption features, multicloud sharing and access, and, of course, ultra-low-latency flash storage.

The IBM FlashSystem family, is designed to meet the full range of enterprise storage needs from entry to high-end systems that extend to your hybrid multicloud storage deployments without increasing cost and complexity. All based on a common storage software platform, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, that works seamlessly across all deployment types and also supports your existing storage estate, whether the storage is from IBM or many other vendors to efficiently meet the challenges of rapid data growth and constrained IT budgets.

WHY IBM FLASHSYSTEM?

Designed to deliver comprehensive capabilities for storage efficiency, the FlashSystem family enables users to dedicate fewer of their scarce resources to IT infrastructure—and more to implementing new applications to support the business. This is possible through the innovative built-in capabilities of FlashSystem systems, which allow users to:

• Significantly improve performance with end-to-end NVMe flash solutions
• Minimize storage costs with data reduction pools as well as block deduplication and data compression backed by the IBM Data Reduction Guarantee2
• Move data and applications nondisruptively between data centers with IBM HyperSwap Support more than 500 heterogeneous storage systems from a wide variety of vendors
• Deploy flash storage cost-effectively and optimize data placement among different tiers of storage, helping maximize performance while limiting costs of multi-tier systems
• Implement hybrid cloud capabilities rapidly and with existing on-premises storage
• Benefit from integration with modern data protection tools, cyber resiliency capability such as encryption and cloud "air gap" snapshots
• Option to use large capacity IBM FlashCore modules (FCM) with inline-hardware compression, data protection, and innovative flash management features; industry standard NVMe drives; or Storage Class Memory (SCM) drives
• Support Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes container environments
• Complement server virtualization with technologies such as IBM PowerVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Kubernetes and Docker
• Get peace of mind with comprehensive IBM FlashWatch guarantees
• Increase cost-efficiency with IBM Storage Utility programs