Hybrid storage solutions
Optimize your storage media mix, including NVMe hybrid flash storage solutions, to achieve the best balance of performance and cost efficiency.
Overview
Hybrid storage tailored to your business needs
Optimizing performance and affordability is a constant challenge. Hybrid storage solutions allow you to achieve this balance with AI-driven placement across your fastest flash and disk devices without compromising data resilience.
With IBM hybrid flash, you cost effectively can meet the data demands while strengthening performance and data availability.
Benefits
Improve cost efficiency
Hybrid flash arrays help lower total cost of ownership while meeting workload demands by combining the ideal mix of flash and traditional spinning drives.
Achieve faster performance
Automate data placement across flash and disk devices and deliver fast performance by moving your most frequently used data to your highest speed devices.
Support mixed workloads
Hybrid storage arrays provide the performance required to support critical workloads such as AI and media streaming, along with a variety of deployment models.
Hybrid storage systems built with virtualization and AI
Entry-level, affordable hybrid flash storage solutions
FlashSystem 5000H is a cost-effective storage solution designed to boost performance while providing enterprise-grade functionalities.
Compact hybrid flash entry storage array with NVMe
FlashSystem 5200H is an affordable, compact hybrid solution designed for enterprise storage requirements, no matter the size of your company. Experience increased functionality and performance in only 1U.
Midrange hybrid flash storage arrays with NVMe
FlashSystem 7200H is a cost-optimized, end-to-end NVMe solution with SCM support for flash acceleration and optional hybrid flash expansions for midrange workloads.
All-flash storage arrays
Accelerate and optimize cloud environments in a cost-effective way with IBM’s all-flash storage solutions. All-flash technology allows you to speed up business execution and gain a competitive advantage while simplifying data management, protecting your data and keeping data readily available.
Hybrid storage infrastructure management
Peace of mind with guaranteed results
IBM FlashWatch allows you to purchase, own and upgrade your arrays with confidence. Enhance your end-to-end ownership experience with a suite of flash storage guarantee programs.
Optimize storage infrastructure
Manage complexity, optimize costs and streamline support using cloud-based storage management, predictive analytics and support from AI-powered IBM Storage Insights.
Hybrid flash storage case studies
Resources
What is flash storage?
Flash storage is a solid-state technology that writes and stores data. Reduce your footprint while maintaining high availability, even when the power is off.
Latest blog posts on hybrid flash storage
Keep up-to-date on what’s new and exciting when it comes to flash storage.
Flash storage Redbooks
Learn more about how hybrid flash storage solutions can help you meet the challenges of rapid data growth.