Smarter storage strategies

IBM Storage Solutions

IBM storage solutions reduce costs, improve productivity, minimise risks, manage growth and reduce operating expenses to help you get the most efficient storage infrastructure.

IBM also offers effective, secure solutions that help address growing data protection demands while reducing operational complexity.

Stott + Hoare offers the full range of IBM storage solutions, including disk and tape systems and Storage Area Networks (SANs) as well as storage media, software and networking hardware.

With innovations such as IBM Real-Time Compression, storage virtualisation and IBM XIV high-end, disk storage systems with a virtualised grid architecture, IBM storage solutions are designed to help you manage the information explosion, streamline costs, improve service delivery, and mitigate risks by helping you address core capabilities around information compliance, availability, retention, and security.

IBM Storage Disk Systems

Stott + Hoare offers a complete range of IBM disk systems.

Enterprise level storage capacity and performance

IBM XIV Storage System

The XIV hardware is based on a grid of standard Intel® and Linux® components connected in any-to-any topology by means of massively paralleled, non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet. This architecture supports consistent performance that grows as capacity increases. Its virtualised design automatically balances load across system resources, eliminating the need for manual tuning and supporting rapid self-healing in the case of a drive failure. IBM XIV is a core component of the IBM Information Infrastructure.

Capacity: From 72 up to 180 disk drives per frame in 1 TB or 2 TB capacities. Up to 24 FC ports (4 Gbps, 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps). Up to 6 iSCSI ports. 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth.

Reliability: Active-active N+1 redundancy of all system components, rapid disk rebuild, self-healing.

Functionality: XIV Storage System Software comes standard with: support for thousands of near-instantaneous snapshots, volume cloning with immediate availability, thin provisioning, asynchronous and synchronous remote mirroring, data migration, and an amazingly intuitive user interface.

IBM System Storage DS8000 series

The IBM System Storage DS8000 offers high-performance, high-capacity, secure storage systems that are designed to deliver resiliency and total value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments.

Capacity: From 5 TB to over 2048 TB with multiple drive options.

Functionality: Highest levels of performance and resiliency; Exceptional support for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads; Easy Tier solid-state drive (SSD) optimisation. Robust mirroring and copy functions; Innovative self-encrypting disks; Heterogeneous server platform support; Flexible configuration options and high scalability to support storage consolidation through tiered storage.

Midrange systems

IBM also offers midrange and high performance computing systems such as Storwize V7000, DS3950, DS5000, DS5020 Express, EXP5060 and DCS9900 that deliver essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance all integrated into a compact, modular design at a competitive, midrange price.

Entry-level systems

Systems such as the DS3400, DS3500, EXP3000 and EXP3500 are designed to deliver advanced functionality at a breakthrough price, and provide an exceptional solution for workgroup storage applications such as email, file, print and Web servers, as well as collaborative databases and remote boot for diskless servers.

• Affordable – A high capacity and robust solution for cost-focused budget.
• Flexible – Support SAS and SATA drive intermix for tiered storage within a single enclosure.
• Scalable – Increase disk capacity with multiple units.
• Performance-oriented – SAS technology enables high bandwidth and high throughput.
• Robust – Customer-replaceable and hot-swappable components and point-to-point architecture ensure high reliability.

IBM tape storage, backup, and information management systems

IBM invented the concept of magnetic tape computer storage back in 1952 and continues to lead the industry in tape innovation.

Enterprise Virtual Tape Systems

TS7680 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Gateway for System z, TS7700 Virtualisation Engine, TS7650G ProtecTIER® Deduplication Gateway

Enterprise tape systems

TS3500 Tape Library, TS1140 Tape Drive, TS1130 Tape Drive

Midrange tape systems

TS3200 Tape Library Express, TS7650 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Appliance, TS3310 Tape Library, TS7610 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express

Entry tape systems

TS3100 Tape Library Express, TS2900 Tape Autoloader, TS2350 Tape Drive Express, TS2250 Tape Drive Express, TS2240 Tape Drive Express, TS2230 Tape Drive Express, 7214 Storage Device Enclosure

IBM storage area network (SAN)

IBM SAN products and solutions provide integrated SAN solutions with multi-protocol local, campus, metropolitan and global storage networking.

Enterprise SAN directors – Highest availability and scalability enterprise solutions

IBM System Storage SAN768B and SAN384B IBM TotalStorage SAN256B

Cisco MDS 9513, Cisco MDS 9509, Cisco MDS 9506

Mid-range SAN switches – Scalable, affordable SMB and enterprise solutions

IBM System Storage SAN80B-4, IBM System Storage SAN40B-4, IBM System Storage SAN32B-E4

Cisco MDS 9148

Entry SAN switches – Simple, affordable small and medium business (SMB) solutions.

IBM System Storage SAN24B-4 Express

Cisco MDS 9124 Express

Multiprotocol routers

IBM System Storage SAN04B-R, IBM System Storage SAN06B-R

Cisco MDS 9222i

IBM Network Attached Storage

IBM Network attached storage (NAS) products provide a wide-range of network attachment capabilities to a broad range of host and client systems.

IBM Real-time Compression Appliances for NAS

Real-time Compression is the newest advancement in storage efficiency for NAS. IBM Real-time Compression Appliances are the only storage compression solutions that can shrink primary, online data in real time, without performance degradation.

IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage

IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage offers extreme scale-out capability for very large storage infrastructures requiring high availability.

IBM System Storage N series hardware

IBM System Storage N3000 Express, IBM System Storage N series Gateway, IBM System Storage N6000, IBM System Storage N7000

IBM System Storage N series software

SnapManager® for – SAP, Microsoft® Exchange, Oracle, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL server

IBM System Storage N series solutions

Performance Accelerator Model (PAM)