Karachi: IBM on Tuesday announced several key enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3 including a new solid state drive (SSD) caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, and a new Appleās iPhone app that lets people monitor their XIV storage environment from virtually anywhere.
With SSD caching, the most frequently used data is stored on solid state memory placed between the system memory and hard drives. Because SSDs used no spinning disks and robotic arms, the storing and retrieving of data is accomplished with virtually no latency, speeding data access by orders of magnitude. In addition to the superior performance, SSD cache requires no separate tier to manage.
The IBM XIV SSD caching option provided up to 6TB of fast-read SSD and is the latest in a string of advances that IBM has developed for the enterprise storage system over the last six months. In July, 2011, the company introduced the XIV Storage System Gen3, a new generation of the storage family that dramatically lowered the total cost of ownership and improved system performance by four times over the previous model. With XIV Gen3, IBM also replaced the systemās Ethernet-based backplane with a high-performance InfiniBand backplane that increased the systemās internal bandwidth between modules by 40 times. Then in October 2011, IBM added 3TB disk drives to the system increasing system capacity by 50 percent.
āThese latest updates to XIV Gen3 are a great example of IBMās continued commitment to helping customers achieved business outcomes through smarter storage technologies,ā said Doug Balog, vice president and business line executive for IBM Storage Systems. āIt comes down to saving customers time and money with extremely efficient, easily managed, virtualized, and high-performing storage systems like XIV Gen3.ā
In addition to IBM XIV SSD Caching, IBM announced the ability to mirror data between previous versions of XIV and XIV Gen3 systems, which will ease data migration and help give customers the flexibility to repurpose their XIV models as disaster recovery backup systems.
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