The IBM XIV® Storage System is a next-generation high-end open disk storage
system. An integral part of IBM’s broad spectrum of system storage offerings,
the XIV system has an innovative grid architecture designed to deliver the
highest levels of reliability, performance, scalability and functionality at low
overall cost, while eliminating complexity and providing unprecedented ease of
management.
Designed for exceptionally low Total Cost of Ownership, the XIV system aims
to tackle almost every aspect related to owning, operating and maintaining a
storage system, including backup and restore, acquisition, environmentals,
administration and downtime cost factors.
The XIV system is designed to deliver consistently high performance through
the elimination of hot spots and full exploitation of all key system resources.
Its ground-breaking architecture delivers these performance levels while
innovatively leveraging the capacity and cost benefits of large SATA drives.
Outstanding availability and reliability are delivered through a
revolutionary redundancy scheme, enabling automated self healing with
exceptionally fast rebuild times. Software functionality including snapshotting,
thin provisioning and space reclamation, and remote mirroring can help ease
provisioning and protect business data from unexpected outages. IBM XIV can help
customers deploy an information infrastructure that is reliable, versatile and
available while offering improvements in storage management, provisioning and
improved asset utilization.