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IBM Storwize V5000

IBM Storwize® V5000 is a highly flexible, easy to use, virtualized storage system that enables midsized organizations to meet the challenges of rapid data growth and limited IT budgets. As an intermediate Storwize family offering, Storwize V5000 enables organizations to consolidate and provide new capabilities to their existing infrastructures. With flexible licensing options, Storwize V5000 makes it easy to deploy complementary solutions, such as IBM ProtecTIER®.
IBM Storwize V5000 benefits

• Proven Storwize ease of management, functionality and interoperability
• Higher flexibility: Easily customizable with flexible software options
• Ease of use: Simplifies management with industry-leading graphical user interface
• IBM Easy Tier®: Helps to increase performance up to three times using only five percent flash storage with optional IBM® Easy Tier® technology1
• External virtualization: Consolidates and provides IBM Storwize® V5000 capabilities to existing storage infrastructures
• Replication over IP: Improves network utilization for remote mirroring with innovative technology
• Clustered systems: Provides the ability for block systems to both scale up and out for performance and capacity

• New Generation GUI: Simplifies management with industry-leading graphical user interface
• Easy Tier: Helps to increase performance up to three times using only five percent flash storage with optional IBM® Easy Tier® technology1
• External virtualization: Consolidates and provides IBM Storwize® V5000 capabilities to existing storage infrastructures
• Replication over IP: Improves network utilization for remote mirroring with innovative replication technology
• Clustered systems: Ability for block systems to both scale up and out for performance and capacity

Organizations of all sizes are faced with a tidal wave of data coming from myriad new sources, including sensors, social media, mobile platforms and more. And while the sheer volume of this new data may seem overwhelming, the value of information is stronger than ever—some even consider it the new currency of business. To help maximize the benefits of growing amounts of data, businesses are turning to software-defined environments, which can provide flexibility and responsiveness to business demands—along with higher scalability and greater efficiency.The IBM Storwize family is the primary IBM storage solution for supporting software-defined environments and virtual infrastructures. Storwize V5000, the latest addition to the family, is a virtualized, flexible, easy-to-use solution that enables midsized organizations with complex storage and scalability needs to overcome storage challenges. As an intermediate offering, Storwize V5000 is designed to help consolidate and provide new capabilities to existing storage infrastructures. And because of its flexible licensing options, Storwize V5000 is simple to deploy with complementary storage solutions, such as IBM ProtecTIER®.

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