IBM DS8000

IBM TotalStorage DS8000 is available from NexStor. NexStor offers the most competitive prices for the IBM systems and parts.

The IBM TotalStorage DS8000 was created specifically for medium and large enterprises, the IBM TotalStorage DS8000 series offers high-capacity storage systems that are designed to deliver a generation-skipping leap in performance, scalability, resiliency and value.

The DS8000 series is designed to provide exceptional performance while adding virtualization capabilities that can help you allocate system resources more effectively and better control application quality of service. The DS8000 series also offers powerful functions that are designed to help protect data from unforeseen events and maintain data availability, which can benefit businesses that must have round the clock access to information.

IBM TotalStorage DS8000 Feature and benefits

• Utilizing IBM POWER5TM processor technology, the DS8000 series delivers the first use of the IBM Virtualization EngineTM, which is designed to bring to a disk storage system the logical partition flexibility usually reserved for servers.
• Innovative design creates impressive performance. The DS8000 series are as much as six times faster than the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) Model 800.
• Exceptional flexibility and scalability. The current physical storage capacity of the DS8000 series system can range from 1.1TB to 192TB of physical capacity, and it has an architecture designed to scale over a petabyte.
• Significant addressing enhancements, IBM TotalStorage FlashCopy, Global and Metro Mirror functions, and streamlined configuration and management capabilities through the easy to use IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager are just some of the many additional advanced features of the DS8000 series.
  

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