IBM Announces Expansion of Storage Portfolio for SMBs

IBM today expanded its lineup of storage solutions for small and medium businesses and extended its relationship with Network Appliance (NetApp) with new products and offerings. Today’s announcement includes a new unified storage system as well as expanded virtualization interoperability and database backup software. “A key objective of IBM’s relationship with NetApp is to expand IBM's storage solutions for our business clients,” said Attapol Prapinwanich, IBM System Storage Manager, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Thailand Co.Ltd. “We listened to our customers who told us that easy scalability, virtualization, resource optimization and database interoperability are all at the top their wish lists. Today’s announcement addresses these concerns and will assist IBM customers in maximizing the value of their IT infrastructures by empowering them with simpler and faster access to their information.” The new IBM? System Storage? N5600 appliance is the latest member of IBM’s N series storage family. The new device is aimed at small to medium-sized businesses poised for growth, offering an easy migration path to the company’s enterprise class offerings, scaling to 252 terabytes of physical capacity. Because the N5600 uses the same disk drives, expansion units and advanced software features as the other N series products, upgrades are seamless. The N5600 increases the performance of the N5500, with 50% more spindles and capacity as well as twice the memory and up to three times the maximum total bandwidth. IBM also announced today interoperability between N series gateways and the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). This allows customers to attach N series gateways to their SVC storage pool, helping to enable heterogeneous file sharing and block level virtualization. At the file level, the N series gateways offer an IP portal that enables them to connect to a Fibre Channel attached storage subsystem. IBM’s SVC is designed to provide block level virtualization, to help enable centralized management of managed storage resources and non-disruptive migration. This heterogeneous mix allows SAN storage access through a single IP portal without the high cost of Fibre Channel host bus adapters and port attachment fees. Finally, SnapManager? for Oracle is designed to automate and simplify the complex manual and time-consuming processes associated with the backup, restore, recovery and cloning of Oracle databases. It is designed to provide the ability to create, use, and clone a database for use by test and development teams while maintaining a high level of availability to end users. SnapManager automatically identifies the backup data set and puts the database in hot backup mode while a snapshot copy is created to ensure consistency. This allows database administrators to easily efficiently perform database backup, restore, and recovery and clone operations while minimizing the risk of data loss.

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