ARMONK, N.Y., Jan 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced new, all-flash storage solutions designed for
midrange and large enterprises, where high availability, continuous
up-time, and performance are critical. Built to provide the speed
and reliability needed for workloads ranging from enterprise
resource planning (ERP) and financial transactions to cognitive
applications like machine learning and natural language processing.
The solutions announced today are designed to support cognitive
workloads which clients can use to uncover trends and patterns that
help improve decision-making, customer service and ROI.
IBM continues to push the boundaries in the design of flash
solutions developed with the performance to manage the most
demanding workloads such as "six nines availability", ensuring
continuous operations 99.9999 percent of the time. Through deep
integration between IBM Storage and IBM z Systems, co-developed
software that provides data protection, remote replication and
optimization for midrange and large enterprises, is embedded in
these new solutions. This advanced microcode is ideal for cognitive
workloads on z Systems and Power System requiring the highest
availability and system reliability possible.
"The DS8880 All-Flash family is targeted at users that have
experienced poor storage performance due to latency, low server
utilization, high energy consumption, low system availability and
high operating costs. These same users have been listening,
learning and understand the data value proposition of being a
cognitive business," said Ed Walsh,
general manager, IBM Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure.
"In the coming year we expect an awakening by companies to the
opportunity that cognitive applications, and hybrid cloud
enablement, bring them in a data driven marketplace."
Today's IBM is announcing a new family of DS8880 all-flash
systems designed to meet a wide variety of business applications,
workloads, and use cases where microsecond response times and
uncompromised availability are sought. The family includes:
- Business Class Storage – the IBM DS8884F has been
designed for traditional applications such as ERP, order
processing, database transactions, customer relationship management
and human resources information systems. It offers the lowest entry
cost for midrange enterprises with 256 GB Cache (DRAM) and between
6.4-154 TB of Flash Capacity.
- Enterprise Class Storage - the IBM DS8886F has been
engineered for high speed transactional operations like
high-performance online transaction processing, high-speed
commercial data processing, high-performance data warehouse and
data mining and critical financial transaction systems. It provides
users 2 TB Cache (DRAM) and between 6.4-614.4 TB of Flash
Capacity.
- Analytic Class Storage – the IBM DS8888F is ideal for
cognitive and real-time analytics and decision making including
predictive analytics, real time optimization, machine learning and
cognitive systems, natural language speech and video processing. To
support this it delivers 2 TB Cache (DRAM) and between 6.4 TB-1.22
PB of Flash Capacity providing superior performance and capacity
able to address the most demanding business workload
requirements.
Working through a network of offices, supported by a team of
over 850, the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia (Zavod za
zdravstveno zavarovanje Slovenije), provides health insurance to
approximately two million customers. In order to successfully
manage its new customer-facing applications (e.g. electronic
ordering processing and electronic receipts) its storage system
required additional capacity and performance. After completing
research of solutions capable of managing these applications -
which included both Hitachi and EMC - the organization deployed the
IBM DS8886 along with IBM DB2 for z System/OS data server software
to provide an integrated data backup and restore system.
"As long-time users of IBM storage infrastructure and
mainframes, our upgrade to the IBM DS8000 with IBM business partner
Comparex was an easy choice. Since then, its high performance and
reliability have led us to continually deploy newer DS8000 models
as new features and functions have provided us new opportunities,"
said Bojan Fele, CIO of Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia. "Our DS8000 implementation has
improved our reporting capabilities by reducing time to actionable
insights. Furthermore, it has increased employee productivity,
ensuring we can better serve our clients."
According to Scott Sinclair, a
senior analyst at ESG, the announcement by IBM on its family of new
all-flash DS8880 solutions is very impressive in regards to
performance gains and the move to offer flash across the portfolio
a great step. By moving data to another path IBM is at the next
level of innovation in order to take advantage of next generation
technologies. Further to this, the classification of the new family
of DS8880 into business, enterprise, and analytic solutions makes a
lot of sense.
Availability
The new family of DS8880 all-flash data systems will be available
worldwide on January 20, 2017 from
IBM and through IBM Business Partners. Visit the IBM DS8880 landing
page for more information about the solutions announced today.
For more information about IBM Storage, visit ibm.com/flash.
Follow IBM Storage on Twitter at @IBMStorage or
@IBMSystemsISVs.
Contact information
Greg Vitarelli
IBM Media Relations
1-617-455-9627
vitarelli@us.ibm.com
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