IBM ups ante in storage capacity with EMC and Hitachi
IBM ups ante in storage capacity with EMC and Hitachi
IBM has gone into battle with EMC and Hitachi this week by releasing its highest capacity storage arrays to help organisations grow with ever increasing storage demands.
The DS8000 has 192T bytes of maximum capacity, which is triple the capacity of IBM's latest high-end product. In addition, it beats EMC's Symmetrix DMX, which has a maximum of 173T bytes, but it still cannot contain as much as Hitachi's TagmaStore, which has 332T bytes. The DS6000 will have a capacity of 67T bytes.
The new IBM TotalStorage DS6000 series is a bit bigger than a VCR and can enable replication of data to other IBM storage devices, including enterprise storage servers.
The DS8000 series provides clients with "virtual storage systems", and the ability to consolidate workloads running on smaller systems.
Both include microprocessor technology that enables clients to dramatically improve storage utilisation by virtualising and sharing system capacity across diverse servers and applications.
Dan Colby, general manager of IBM Storage Systems, said: "These are the most significant storage announcements we have made in more than a decade. IBM is focused on being the storage innovator and clear technology leader.
"Today, we are delivering new economics and choice by leveraging common components, breakthrough technologies from mainframes and supercomputers, and unmatched virtualisation and management capabilities."
These new arrays will allow organisations to take advantage of virtualisation technologies via Tivoli Storage Manager back up and data management applications, which can be hosted on the arrays.
Recent reports have revealed that IBM is still a bit weak in the high end of the market, due to mainframe-attached storage share less due to EMC, so IBM hopes that these new products can reverse the trend.
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