Thread: IBM updates its storage system

For the first time in three years, IBM has updated its DS8000 storage system for businesses, leaving the DS8700.

A better processor

The performances were improved by 150% over the previous DS8300, according to the company announcing that the DS8700 uses his latest Power6 processor, which has yield 50% more energy efficient. The new model has all hard drives have a native encryption of data that makes the content unreadable when a volume is physically removed from the system.

The arrival of SSD

Companies can also choose integrated models of DSS and allocate specific tasks to these media to exploit their maximum capacity. Generally, they serve as cache for data read more to improve performance. According to IBM, using a DSS for 10% of the most used data provides a performance gain of 300%.

More features

IBM helps firms with an existing DS8000 storage system to shift to a more advanced system without downtime. In addition, the new system is backwards compatible, which means it is possible to use the hard drives of previous systems, but also scripts and services on this new model.