IBM FlashSystem with IBM Variable Stripe RAID delivers two dimensions of data protection.
Most enterprise all-flash storage arrays available in the marketplace today are designed using proprietary software integrated with essentially commodity hardware. This architecture is intended to reduce both the cost of the product and its time to market. A prime example of this approach is the use of commodity SSDs as the flash storage medium.
To provide enterprise-grade data protection, these products implement various RAID regimes across the SSDs to reduce the chance of data loss from a flash failure. A key liability of this system-level RAID approach to data protection is that when a single flash media failure is detected in an individual SSD, the entire SSD must be taken offline and replaced before robust data protection is re-established.
This leads to higher maintenance costs, lower system availability and times of greater vulnerability for business-critical applications. The IBM FlashSystem family of industry-leading all-flash storage arrays takes a different approach. Instead of commodity hardware and SSDs, IBM FlashSystem leverages the purpose-engineered advantages of IBM FlashCore™ technology to provide two independent dimensions of data protection. System-level RAID is implemented across all the IBM MicroLatency modules in every IBM FlashSystem array.
Highlights
- Add a new dimension of data protection with IBM Variable Stripe RAID™
- Automatically address flash failures with no loss of data or storage capacity
- Eliminate the data protection, performance and resource utilization inefficiencies caused by commodity solid-state drives (SSDs)
- Increase the granularity of flash monitoring, management and provisioning down to the individual flash block level and below
- Maximise utilisation of flash storage resources
Transform information technology into business innovation
IBM FlashSystem all-flash storage platforms are engineered to address the most demanding performance, reliability, data economics, and software-defined storage requirements.
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Data: the foundation of cognitive business
The world is awash in oceans of data. Structured or unstructured, generated internally or created by others, stored in the data centre or the cloud, data is the cornerstone of cognitive business. Leveraging vast quantities of data to uncover patterns and pursue breakthrough ideas, a cognitive business can elevate expertise, speed time to market, improve processes and enhance decision-making.
Infusing cognitive into your business requires you to collect and curate the right data. IBM storage solutions enable the data infrastructure needed to efficiently capture, deliver, manage and protect data with superior performance and economics.
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