SAN server bites 1000
SAN server bites 1000
Since its incursion into the market in September last year, IBM has announced that more than 1000 Enterprise Storage Servers known as "Shark" have been shipped, representing the equivalent of close to one and one-half petabytes of storage capacity.
According to IBM, this is recognition of the fact that storage technology is increasingly being accepted as a key data storage solution for a variety of customers in diverse industries.
Over 1000 customers, including almost half of the top 100 global companies, have bought "Shark" worldwide.
Built on the foundation of IBM's Seascape 1 Storage Enterprise Architecture, Shark is a disk storage system incorporating IBM-unique technology such as Parallel Access Volumes and Multiple Allegiance, currently unavailable in competing systems.
It scales from 420GB to over 11TB and features a two four-way symmetric multiprocessors, Serial Storage Architecture and a large cache with additional non-volatile (battery-backed) memory.
Shark works with heterogeneous hosts and operating systems such as S/390, AS/400, UNIX, and Windows NT and with a variety of interfaces including Fibre Channel, Ultra SCSI and ESCON.