The IBM System Storage™ DS5000 series storage system is designed to meet
today’s and tomorrow’s demanding open-systems requirements while establishing a
new standard for life cycle longevity. Building on many decades of design
expertise, the DS5000 series’ seventh-generation architecture delivers
industry-leading performance, real reliability, multi-dimensional scalability
and unprecedented investment protection.
The DS5000 series is equally adept at supporting transactional applications
such as databases and OLTP, throughput-intensive applications such as HPC and
rich media, and concurrent workloads for consolidation and virtualization. With
its relentless performance and superior reliability and availability, the DS5000
series storage system can support the most demanding service level agreements
(SLAs) for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows®,
UNIX® and Linux®. And when requirements change, you can add or replace host
interfaces, grow capacity, add cache and reconfigure the system on the
fly—ensuring that it will keep pace with your growing company.
This multi-dimensional scalability enables the DS5000 series storage system
to extend beyond the normal three- to four-year life cycle, protecting your
storage investment by delaying (or even eliminating) the expense of migrating
data to a new system and allowing you to amortize acquisition costs over
extended periods of time. This life cycle longevity enables the DS5000 series to
continue delivering value long after other systems have been retired. The DS5000
series’ drive-level encryption offers affordable data security with no
performance penalty. And the DS5000 series’ multiple replication options, drive
level encryption, and persistent cache backup can help ensure that any data in
cache is captured and safe in the event of a power outage.