IBM Enterprise Disk Storage

The IBM System Storage DS6000 series, along with the DS8000 series, delivers an enterprise storage continuum of systems with shared replication services and common management interfaces.

The DS6000 and DS8000 series systems are designed to help your company simplify its storage infrastructure, support business continuity and optimize information lifecycle management.

IBM System Storage DS Family Brochure (pdf - 123Kb)

IBM System Storage DS6000

The IBM System Storage DS6000 series is designed to provide high availability and high performance in a small, modular package. This series, along with the DS8000 series, offers an enterprise-class continuum of storage systems with shared replication services and common management interfaces. The DS6000 series systems are well suited to help you simplify your storage infrastructure, support business continuity, and optimize information lifecycle management.

• Flexible, high-performance storage for medium and large enterprises
• Enterprise-class Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS)
• Performance, storage capacity in a compact enclosure
• Consolidated storage infrastructure

IBM System Storage DS8000

The IBM System Storage DS8000 series are high-performance, high-capacity storage systems designed to break through to an entirely new dimension in scalability, resiliency and overall total value. Incorporating dual-clustered POWER5 servers, new four port 4Gbps Fibre Channel/FICON host adapters, up to 256GB cache, fibre channel and Fibre Channel ATA (FATA) disk drives, the DS8000 series is designed for outstanding performance.

• Capacity - 1.1 up to 320TB physical capacity with options for both Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel ATA drives to enable tiered storage implementations.
• Performance - Built for outstanding performance with an IBM POWER5+ ™ processor complex and 4Gbps Fibre Channel/IBM FICON® connectivity.
• Functionality - IBM Virtualization Engine™ technology featuring storage system logical partitions (LPARs).
• Total cost of ownership (TCO) - Enterprise Choice warranty and model upgradeability offers dramatic opportunities to help organizations reduce the TCO of their storage systems.