In an increasingly demanding and competitive business landscape, effective
data management is essential to the success of your business. Employees,
partners, and customers need access to up-to-date information to work
productively, make timely decisions, and meet business goals. You are under
pressure to deliver more storage capacity and at higher levels of service, yet
critical resources—staffing, budget, power, cooling, and floor space—are often
constrained.
These demands call for enterprise-class storage systems with the flexibility to
support changing IT requirements, accommodate continuous data growth, satisfy
application-level service requirements, and unify SAN and NAS infrastructures at
a low overall cost.
The IBM System Storage® N7000 series systems are designed to help you tackle the
challenge of effective data management using virtualization technology and a
unified storage architecture. The N7000 series is designed to deliver high-end
enterprise storage and data management capabilities with midrange affordability.
Built-in serviceability and manageability features help support your efforts to
increase reliability; simplify and unify storage infrastructure and maintenance;
and deliver exceptional economy.
The N7000 series, like all N series systems, provides powerful virtualization
and thin-provisioning capabilities to help you maximize storage utilization
while minimizing the use of power, cooling, and floor space. At the same time,
you can improve staff productivity with an integrated suite of application-aware
manageability software offering policy-based automation to otherwise manual
tasks.
The IBM N7000 series can unify FC SAN, iSCSI SAN, NAS, primary, nearline, and
regulatory compliance data retention and archival storage in an integrated
architecture. The N7000 also offers massive scalability to support growth and
consolidation. The combination of versatility and simplicity of N series systems
is intended to help you respond quickly to changing business needs.
In addition, the N7000 series ordered with a Gateway feature can help you get
the most from your existing storage equipment. You can improve your return on
investment while continuing to support different access methods for different
business solutions throughout the enterprise. The IBM N7000 series is able to
support the attachment to broad range of IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR, and
HP storage subsystems, including the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS)
series, IBM XIV® Storage System, IBM System Storage DS8000® and DS4000® series
with its Gateway feature.