IBM System Storage N6000 series

Now you can simultaneously meet your diverse needs-SAN and NAS, primary and secondary storage-and provide high levels of application availability for your critical business operations to technical applications. With IBM N6000 series systems, you get outstanding value: our flexible systems offer excellent performance and impressive scalability at a low total cost of ownership.

Today's business environment demands innovation and increasingly flawless execution. You are asked to manage and protect valuable data to enable business growth and success. Change can be continuous and your IT operations have to evolve while adhering to hard limits on budget, staffing, and infrastructure. Virtualised computing, the latest wave of change, is quickly becoming the norm. It calls for networked storage systems that you can use to consolidate diverse data sets and unlock the full potential of virtualised servers.

• • Meet diverse and changing needs. Consolidate diverse data sets onto a unified storage platform that provides simultaneous block and file services for business and technical applications.
  • Perform when your applications need it most. Outstanding file-based and transaction-based performance with high bandwidth, 64-bit architecture, and the latest I/O technologies.
  • Respond to growth. Thin provisioning helps you eliminate stranded storage. Preserve investments in staff expertise and capital equipment with data-in-place upgrades to more powerful N series systems while running the same OS and using the same management tools.
  • Maximise your resources. Highly efficient storage utilization makes it possible for you to dramatically reduce your consumption of raw storage, power, cooling, and space.
  • Improve your business efficiency. Clients with different storage subsystems in their SAN environments can now take advantage of the N6000 series Gateway capabilities to help improve business efficiency and reduce data management complexity.