IBM System Storage Product Guide

The future of your business is already here

IBM System Storage™ solutions are built with the success of your business in mind. End-to-end storage ingenuity and unmatched expertise from IBM help you reduce costs, risks and complexity while improving efficiencies and the responsiveness of your infrastructure and people.

Go green for the planet—and your bottom line

Saving energy means saving money. Get a green "thumbs up" when you implement IBM System Storage solutions to drive down runaway costs in power, cooling and space. Regardless of the size of your business, IBM offers energy-efficient strategies and savings for a sustainable enterprise.

Power up your savings by powering down storage inefficiencies

• Prepackaged storage kits and advanced systems virtualization from IBM facilitate easier ways for you to reduce costs, lower energy consumption and dramatically improve storage utilization—without affecting performance.
• Automated tiered storage management and exceptional data mobility let you better match applications and investments to the value of stored data—saving both time and money.

Easy come, easy grow with a nimble, responsive IT infrastructure

Being responsive to changing business needs is often easier said than done. IBM System Storage helps you unlock business resiliency and stay ahead of everyday challenges, with easy-to-use, affordable storage offerings that flexibly manage growth, complexity and risk.

Effectively manage your data with the strength and simplicity of IBM System Storage

• Simplified storage platforms from IBM use graphical interfaces and integrated systems to effortlessly manage both physical and virtual resources across a heterogeneous environment—for easier management of your growing business.
• IBM System Storage platforms allow you to dynamically and reliably scale storage with pervasive infrastructure flexibility to keep you in control of data growth and costs.
• Protecting data is vital to operating efficiently under normal business conditions—and rapidly recovering during emergencies. System Storage helps you reduce risk with rock-solid data protection tools and high availability across the enterprise, especially when you need it most.

Broaden your business horizons with innovation that matters

Imagine breakthrough innovations that allow you to run your organization not only faster, but better, helping to attract new customers and gain competitive advantages. System Storage solutions help you stay consistently out front so that you can make strategic decisions on how to use advancements in technology to broaden your business and gain a better return on investment.

Transform your business through innovation that matters

• Delineated along a clear technical roadmap to help ensure smooth upgrades and transitions, IBM storage platforms are designed to meet even the most stringent data storage requirements, regardless of changes in future technology.
• The long-term binary compatibilities of System Storage platforms foster longevity of the equipment, applications and skills that support your organization, even as new systems are introduced.

Tape Storage Systems

Entry-level/Midrange Tape Products

Entry-level Tape Drives

Entry-level Tape Libraries

Midrange Tape Drives

Midrange Tape Libraries

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Enterprise Tape Products

Tape Drive

Tape Controller

Tape Library

Tape Virtualization

Virtualization Engine

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Other Backup Tape Products

Tape Drives

Optical

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Selecting a Solution

* Compressed; see ibm.com/storage for specific capacities.
** Available on System i through AIX/Linux partitioning.
*** See ibm.com/storage for specific open systems connectivity.

IBM Systems

Demand for lightning-fast communication and transactions has driven the need for a high-performance, responsive infrastructure that embraces open standards—exactly what you will find in the IBM Systems product portfolio. Investments in servers often result in demands on disk and tape storage systems. IBM has a family of storage offerings that complements the IBM Systems product portfolio. There is no better storage offering for IBM Systems than an IBM System Storage product. These offerings are tested and supported by IBM and are backed by outstanding IBM service and support.

IBM System Storage Proven Program Helps Simplify Interoperability

Overview

The IBM System Storage Proven™ program has been designed on a simple premise: give customers the ability to select the best combination of interoperable storage technologies to help minimize their investment risk, increase business efficiency and expedite their infrastructure implementation.

The IBM System Storage Proven program is all about leveraging IBM storage with business applications, ISV and Business Partner software, and market-leading hardware components which together deliver solutions that address today's client needs.

Customer Benefits

• Prequalified configurations
• Customers will be better able to identify a variety of prequalified, interoperable storage elements. By taking prequalified applications and hardware and combining them with IBM storage technology clients can more easily identify solutions that address their storage needs.

IBM Business Partner Benefits

• Potential for reduced sales cycle and integration issues
• For IBM Business Partners, the IBM System Storage Proven program is intended to help shorten the sales cycle and ease integration issues, allowing more time for higher margin customization. Another added value for IBM Business Partners is the interoperability qualification program where companies work together with IBM, which can help support their ability to develop and deliver products or solutions that interoperate with the broad portfolio of IBM System Storage products.

Please visit the System Storage Proven Web site at ibm.com/storage/proven to view more than 500 available products and solutions from over 300 participating companies to meet your storage needs.

IBM Business Partner Innovation Centers (BPIC)

More than 140 worldwide IBM TotalStorage Solution Centers can deliver one-stop shopping for storage hardware, software and consulting services. The Solution Centers offer you both a local venue for hands-on testing of IBM storage solutions and a platform for proof-of-concept and benchmarking activities. These centers also work with the leading storage software providers to support a wide variety of choices for interoperability. IBM Business Partners will help you select and implement a solution to help your business succeed in today's dynamic marketplace. Visit: ibm.com/storage/tssc

Media Guide

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MB, GB and TB equal 1,000,000, 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, respectively, where referring to storage capacity. Actual storage capacity will vary based upon many factors and may be less than stated. Some numbers given for storage capacities give capacity in native mode followed by capacity using data compression technology.

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