The trickle-down effect of enterprise IT is as old as business technology. Vendors have long aimed new innovations at enterprises whose deep pockets and desire for competitive advantage will lead them to pay a premium for shiny new products. Over time and with the help of constant technological evolution, yesterday’s leading-edge solutions are reconfigured and repackaged for smaller companies with tighter budgets.
That dynamic has played out time and again across enterprise tech, but recent developments, including the Covid-19 pandemic, have hastened the speed and urgency of the process, especially in data storage. Companies of all sizes are struggling to effectively manage increasingly massive amounts of business information both on premises and in often sprawling hybrid cloud environments. What are vendors doing to help these customers?
IBM refreshes entry-level FlashSystem arrays with a little NVMe
Big Blue refreshes three entry-level systems – the 5200, 5035 and 5015 – with the flagship of them gaining all-NVMe flash storage capability and cluster scaling to 10s of PB
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IBM has refreshed the entry-level flash storage arrays in its FlashSystem line with the introduction of the all-NVMe flash 5200, plus the 5015 and 5035 that can be equipped with SAS-connected flash drives or spinning disk.
The move completes that hardware refresh begun on the FlashSystem line last February when the 7200 and 9200/9200R – the top end of the range – were upgraded.
Early this morning, IBM made an online announcement about new storage products that aim to meet the growing data needs of smaller businesses.
The FlashSystem 5200 is a high-speed, entry-level flash storage system that will be generally available in March, followed by hybrid cloud and container-centric updates.
The company states that the 5200 will be available at a base price that is, on average, 20 percent less than its predecessor, depending on configuration.
The 5200 will start with 38TB of data capacity and can grow up to 1.7PB in a 1U form factor, offering 66 percent greater maximum I/Os than its predecessor and 40 percent more data throughput at 21GB/s.
IBM Refreshes Entry FlashSystem Flash Storage, Beefs Up Cloud Storage
“Last year we launched the FlashSystem refresh at the upper end and entry-level, and got rid of our StorWize product line. We consolidated it to a single family for non-mainframe workloads. The FlashSystem family seamlessly supports hybrid cloud and container deployments [and] is driving high-end features down-market,” says Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer and vice president of global storage channels for IBM’s storage division. By Joseph F. Kovar February 09, 2021, 09:04 AM EST
IBM on Tuesday unveiled a new family of entry-level, all-flash storage systems with full enterprise capabilities and full container support.
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