IBM Storwize: New Innovations for Midmarket, Channel
NEW-PRODUCT NEWS: In a big storage announcement, IBM additionally mentioned it’s going to introduce help for the business customary Container Storage Interface within the second quarter.
Continual evolution is the foundational reality underlying tech business chestnuts comparable to Moore’s Law, and it gives the subtext for innumerable advertising and promotional campaigns. In reality, it’s one in every of IT’s greatest promoting factors. But a invaluable, if less-discussed, level to contemplate is the top-down nature of how this evolution often proceeds.
Building new merchandise prices a lot of cash, particularly with regards to enterprise IT. So it’s no shock that new options are initially designed in accordance with the wants of enormous enterprises prepared to pay a premium for the options, capabilities and advantages these options present.
However, ultimately as soon as enterprise-specific applied sciences discover their manner into extra inexpensive but nonetheless highly effective new choices for smaller firms and the channel/enterprise companions that serve them. This level is crystal clear within the additions IBM lately made to its Storwize V5000 storage household.
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What is IBM including to its Storwize V5000 portfolio? In quick, two new flavors of high-performance storage designed/priced for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):The Storwize V5010E and V5030E exchange the prior gen V5010 and V5030. Both ship considerably larger IOPs (I/Os per second) efficiency however price 30% lower than prior gen methods. The V5010E helps as much as 4X extra cache (16, 32, 64GB) and 2X higher IOPS than the V5010, and scales to 12PB of capability (as much as 392 HDDs/SSDs). The V5030E helps compression and deduplication and extra cache (32, 64GB), delivers 20% higher IOPS and scales to 23PB of storage in a single system or 32PB with two-way clustering (as much as 760 or 1,520 HDDs/SSDs). The new all-flash Storwize V5100/V5100F presents considerably extra options than the opposite new V5000 members of the family together with end-to-end NVMe. Plus, it delivers considerably increased efficiency by way of IBM’s NVMe FlashCore storage modules, FibreChannel choices (16Gbit/s FC/FC NVMe and 32Gbit/s FC/FC NVMe) and better cache capability (64-576GB per system or 128GB-1.15TB per cluster).
IBM famous that it’s bundling its Spectrum Virtualize software program the brand new V5000 choices at no further cost, that means that clients can freely make the most of administration capabilities, together with snapshots, encryption and storage virtualization, for 450+ IBM and non-IBM arrays. The firm additionally added help for AWS to its Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud (which beforehand may solely be used with IBM Cloud) and launched a brand new “air gapping” operate that enables snapshots of knowledge to be remoted on public cloud platforms away from manufacturing environments.
Finally, IBM mentioned it’s going to introduce help for the business customary Container Storage Interface (CSI) within the second quarter.Why It Matters
This is fascinating stuff. But do IBM’s up to date and new Storwize choices actually qualify as something however a typical…
