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What does cyber resilience mean in today's world? Ian Shave, IBM’s Director of worldwide distributed storage and data resilience sales dives into securing your systems, and securing your data with IBM FlashSystem in this latest video:
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The most affordable hybrid or flash based cyber storage platform with outsized performance for any size business.
A stunning enterprise-grade all-flash array cyber storage offering with the greatest performance and capacity in a single rack unit.
Powerful performance, expansive all-flash storage capacity, and extensive connectivity without compromising resiliency.
Enterprise-class all-NVMe flash cyber storage platform for performance and capacity intensive workloads.
Storage systems that make a difference
of IBM's product waste by weight was diverted from landfills or incineration, in 2022.¹
more effective capacity per rack unit compared to the previous generation of FlashCore Modules.²
less energy than a market leading competitor.³
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Product specifications
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5200
IBM Storage FlashSystem 7300
IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500
Maximum bandwidth (reads)
12 GB per second
21 GB per second
50 GB per second
100 GB per second
Response times (reads)
< 70 microseconds
< 50 microseconds
< 50 microseconds
< 50 microseconds
Effective maximum capacity within single enclosure*
550 TBs (2U enclosure)
1.2 PBe (1U enclosure)
2.2 PBe (2U enclosure)
4.5 PBe (4U enclosure)
Processor/PCIe Gen
Intel Broadwell DE
Intel Sky Lake, Gen 3 PCIe
Intel Cascade Lake, Gen 3 PCIe
Intel Ice Lake, Gen 4 PCIe
Maximum front-end host ports
8
8
24
48
FlashCore Module capacities supported
Not applicable ( (supports industry standard modules)
4.8, 9.6, 19.2 and 38.4 TB
4.8, 9.6, 19.2 and 38.4 TB
4.8, 9.6, 19.2 and 38.4 TB
Use cases
- Server and desktop virtualization
- Production and development databases
- Containers
- Data center edge
- SAP
- Oracle
- Server and desktop virtualization
- Production database
- Containers
- Workload consolidation
- SAP
- Oracle
- Server and desktop virtualization
- Production database
- Containers
- In-memory database
- SAP
- Oracle
- Server and desktop virtualization
- Production database
- Containers
- In-memory database
* Assuming 3:1 data reduction
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All FlashSystem products additionally support industry standard NVMe modules and SAS-connected traditional hard disk drives.
Invest in energy efficient, high-speed, dense data storage that makes a difference. FlashSystem devices leverage IBM FlashCore Modules with computational storage compression capabilities providing storage consolidation and power supply efficiency differentiation. As your data grows, ensure your energy shrinks.
View all your data in one place in real time and rely on AI-driven data tiering. Powered by IBM Storage Virtualize software, FlashSystem makes it easy to manage and store data across all systems while modernizing your legacy storage capabilities.
Recover data quickly and without interruption in the event of a cyberattack. IBM Storage FlashSystem uses IBM Safeguarded Copy and IBM Cyber Vault to create air-gapped copies of data and restore production fast.
Faster storage analytics, faster time to insight. Process your data and gain deeper insights at lightning speed and with less latency, whether on-premises or in the cloud, using tools built with flash storage analytics.
With high-performance IBM Storage FlashSystem storage, Data Action hosts its IBM QRadar® SIEM solution. The deployment has had a significant impact on the ability of the security operations center (SOC) to analyze security threats.
Using flash memory and the IBM Storage portfolio, Micro Strategies created DataVault, a managed security service that helps clients quickly identify and recover from cyberattacks.
By implementing IBM Storage FlashSystem, Genus Power modernized its storage infrastructure and improved response time for its enterprise workloads.
Learn why IBM is recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision for IBM Storage Virtualize.
Forrester interviewed 5 organizations to assess the Total Economic Impact of IBM Storage FlashSystem. See how they lower storage costs, increase operational efficiency, reduce downtime, improve application performance and enhance security.
Understand better what to look for from storage vendors to reduce power consumption and total cost of ownership of enterprise storage.
Footnotes
1 Results based on: https://www.ibm.com/impact/files/reports-policies/2022/IBM_2022_ESG_Report.pdf
2. Based on listed effective capacity of FlashCore Module Generation 3 38.4TB drives vs. the listed effective capacity of the FlashCore Module Generation 2 38.4TB drives.
3. Based on comparable configurations between IBM FlashSystem and a 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant report participant: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/gartner-magic-quadrant-2021-primary-storage/ . Each comparison was at the same temperature, memory, and core frequencies with comparable raw capacities and system performances. For each configuration, the power of the devices were estimated with engineering calculations from the typical power withdraw of the CPUs, drives and components on each of the devices. Based on information from: https://www.manua.ls/dell/powermax-2000/manual (link resides outside of ibm.com); https://www.inxero.com/channels/storcom-net/showcase/4284-it-infrastructure-trends-and-insights?resource_mapping_id=50240 (link resides outside of ibm.com); https://www.sanstorageworks.com/PowerMax-8000.asp (link resides outside of ibm.com).