Advanced high-performance interface technology

To stand up to these challenges and allow businesses to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace, IBM Storwize® V7000 provides unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. IBM Storwize V7000 is a powerful midrange disk system that has been designed to be easy to use and enable rapid deployment without additional resources. Storwize V7000 offers IBM storage virtualization, SSD optimization and “thin provisioning” technologies built in to improve storage utilization and to enable the system to be reconfigured to meet changing needs quickly and easily. Storwize V7000 advanced functions also enable non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimizing disruption to users. IBM Storwize V7000 also allows you to virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).

A lower total cost of ownership

In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource constraints—both physical storage resources and human resources—IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure. Unchecked complexity and growth will only become bigger problems over time.

Small and midsize organizations also may suffer from a range of challenges:

• Inability to share storage among servers
  
  
• Reduced productivity and increased cost due to isolated storage
  
  
• Difficulty deploying tiered storage
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  Disruptive migrations
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  Inability to use virtualized storage as a tool for optimizing expenditures, resources and capabilities