Designed as reliable, powerful, scalable modular storage systems offering a unified storage architecture—with exceptional value— for large-enterprise data center applications and consolidations
IBM System Storage N7000 Modular Disk Storage Systems
Highlights
The challenge: Managing data for business
advantage
In an increasingly demanding and com petitive business landscape, effective data management is essential to the success of the enterprise. Data avail ability from any location gives employ ees, partners and customers the up-to-the-minute information they need to work productively, make timely deci sions and meet business goals. Information technology professionals facing these challenges are under pres sure to deliver more capacity and at higher levels of service. Yet critical resources—staffing, budget, power,
■Scalable—Designed for non- disruptive expansion to more than 1.1 petabytes (1.1 PB, or 1100 TB) storage capacity
■Versatile—Single, integrated architecture designed to sup port concurrent block I/O and file serving over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures
■Flexible—Fibre Channel and SATA disk-drive capabilities allow for deployment in multiple solution environments, includ ing data retention, near-line storage, disk-to-disk backup scenarios and high- performance, mission-critical I/O intensive operations
■Efficient consolidation— Intended to provide storage for multiple applications in a single system with FlexShare™ to ensure that critical workloads get priority service
■Application availability—N7000 systems with Data ONTAP® enable application-level recov ery in minutes, not hours, upon failure or user error
■Performance—Delivers high, consistent performance for mission-critical applications
cooling and floor space—are often constrained.
These demands call for enterprise-class storage systems with the flexibility to support changing IT requirements, accommodate continuous data growth, satisfy application-level service require ments and unify SAN and NAS infra structures with the expectation of reducing overall costs.
