ARMONK, N.Y., April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced an expansion of its flash storage portfolio to
help clients more quickly extract value from data so it can be
turned into a competitive advantage. IBM launched three new
all-flash array products incorporating industry-leading performance
– a minimum latency of 250μs (microsecond) -- to solve the
challenge of accessing the massive amounts of data quickly for
cloud-based applications and workloads.
Consumers today are demanding cloud-based applications that are
fast, easy and intelligent. Sub-second response times are critical
when data is retrieved from the cloud to deliver a unique,
personalized and positive customer experience. IBM MicroLatency
technology transfers data within the flash array via hardware
instead of the added layer of software.
Also built into the solutions are features designed to solve
cloud requirements such as quality-of-service (QoS) to prevent the
impact "noisy neighbor" problems have on application performance,
secure multi-tenancy, thresholding, and easy-to-deploy grid scale
out.
"The drastic increase in volume, velocity and variety of
information is requiring businesses to rethink their approach to
addressing storage needs, and they need a solution that is as fast
as it is easy, if they want to be ready for the Cognitive Era,"
said Greg Lotko, general manager of
IBM Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure. "IBM's flash
portfolio enables businesses on their cognitive journey to derive
greater value from more data in more varieties, whether on premises
or in a hybrid cloud deployment."
Flash Solutions for Diverse Client Needs
With today's
news, IBM is unveiling an end-to-end flash portfolio with features
specifically needed for cloud environments.
- Providing simple onramp for flash storage for IT service
providers: The FlashSystem A9000 comes fully configured which
helps drive down the cost of implementing an all-flash
environment.
- Delivering scalable storage for cloud service providers:
The FlashSystem A9000R, with its grid architecture, provides easy
scaling up to the petabyte range.
The FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R
both incorporate data reduction features, including pattern
removal, deduplication and real-time compression, as well as IBM
FlashCore technology to deliver consistent low latency
performance. They are priced as low as $1.50 per gigabyte.
- Optimized all-flash systems for enterprise-class
servers: With the all-flash IBM DS8888, customer databases and
data-intensive applications are accelerated resulting in improved
business performance and customer satisfaction.
Clients around the world are adopting IBM Flash Storage.
For example, the Arizona State Land Department was seeking a
solution that could speed access to data.
"The workloads our department manages include CAD files for land
mapping, geographic information system (GIS) applications and
satellite imagery for the over 9.2 million acres of State Trust
lands we're responsible to oversee. The data we manage is tied
directly to our goal to make this information available and to
increase its analytical capabilities," said William Reed, chief technology officer at the
Arizona State Land Department. "After exhaustive, comparative proof
of concept testing we chose IBM's FlashSystem, which has helped to
increase our client productivity by 7 times while reducing our
virtual machine boot times by over 85 percent."
"American Postal Workers Union Health Plan continues to
experience tremendous amounts of data growth within our medical
claims department," said Rich Myers,
senior network director, American Postal Workers Union Health Plan.
"We need a storage solution that easily scales, simplifies
management and reporting, and lowers our costs per terabyte. IBM
FlashSystem solves all these problems, and at the same time,
increases the speed of our batch processing by 7 to 8 times from
our previous solution removing all latency from the system."
Representing more than 380 patents, IBM's flash portfolio
includes many breakthroughs in performance, flash durability,
reliability, availability, and ease of use. In addition to
cloud-enabled features, IBM flash solutions are also addressing the
complexity of data management facing CSPs. IBM's new Hyper-Scale
Manager is a simplified user interface that streamlines data
movement and can manage more than one hundred units from a single
user interface. Developed in collaboration with clients and
leveraging IBM Design Thinking, the Hyper-Scale Manager reduces
mouse clicks by more than 50 percent and eliminates time wasted
toggling between the user interface and corresponding files.
All-flash solutions announced today complement IBM's existing
all-flash portfolio including FlashSystem 900 and V9000 that also
leverage IBM's FlashCore technology. IBM's midrange all-flash
solutions consist of all-flash versions of the industry acclaimed
Storwize® family, which offers the performance needed for real-time
insights from business data combined with advanced management
functions. IBM's Big Data all-flash solution delivers a
high-density multi-petabyte scale, low-cost flash option ideal for
industries such as media, genomics, and life sciences.
About IBM
For more information about IBM Flash Storage, visit
www.ibm.com/storage/flash and follow us on twitter @ibmstorage.
Contact:
Greg Vitarelli
IBM Media Relations
+1-617-455-9627
vitarelli@us.ibm.com
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