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AI-driven dynamic storage
IBM FlashSystem® moves you from passive and reactive storage to AI-driven dynamic Storage, designed to help streamline IT operations and support data modernization initiatives with breakthrough capacity, next gen FlashCore Module, and pervasive intelligence.
Introducing IBM FlashSystem.ai
For organisations, capabilities that enable the ability to protect, adapt, and perform.
Turn data management complexity into business agility
IBM FlashSystem new models
- IBM FlashSystem 5600
- IBM FlashSystem 7600
- IBM FlashSystem 9600
IBM FlashSystem 5600
- NVMe EDSFF
- 1U rack space, 12 drives
- 2x12 Core Intel Xeon
- PCle Gen 4
- 16x FC or 20x ethernet ports
- Max IOPs: 2.6 million
- Read BW: 30 GB/s
- Single System Max Capacity:
633 TB raw
400 TBu
2.4 PBe - 5th generation FCM
IBM FlashSystem 7600
- NVMe EDSFF
- 2U rack space, 32 drives
- 2x16 Core AMD Epyc
- PCle Gen 5
- 32x FC or ethernet ports
- Max IOPs: 4.3 million
- Read BW: 55 GB/s
- Single System Max Capacity:
1.68 PB raw
1.2 PBu
7.2 PBe - 5th generation FCM
IBM FlashSystem 9600
- NVMe EDSFF
- 2U rack space, 32 drives
- 2x48 Core AMD Epyc
- PCle Gen 5
- 32x FC or ethernet ports
- Max IOPs: 6.3 million
- Read BW: 86 GB/s
- Single System Max Capacity:
3.37 PB raw
2.4 PBu
11.8 PBe - 5th generation FCM
Real stories. Real impact.
“Working with Axians to design and deploy the IBM solutions has put us in control of our data. This means we can continue our expansion in new countries with the confidence that our production systems are fully protected.”
Mohamed Asmine
Solution Architect, Hosting
FrieslandCampina
"Tata Consultancy Services continues to develop advanced solutions and fully managed services that cover the complete workflow for the financial sector. By incorporating innovative technologies such as IBM FlashSystem, TCS is offering its client enhanced cyber resilience, increased scalability and improved environmental performance. As data volumes relentlessly increase, TCS and IBM can bring capacity and flexibility to the market, ready for the next growth era in the banking, financial services and insurance sector."
Chen Kamer
CEO
Tata Consultancy Services
"Whenever we have a business challenge, Core ICT is there to help us find a creative technical solution. They understand our business and they know our existing infrastructure, so their advice is extremely valuable."
Xavier Lenoble
IT Manager
UCM
“The goal is for the information to be available to health personnel and residents when they need it. In short, we link Health Norway together.”
Endre Storeheier Nerland
Infrastructure Manager
Norsk helsenett SF
“Our IBM Power Systems and IBM FlashSystem environments add to our flexibility and therefore our competitive edge, by enabling us to place workloads wherever it makes the most sense to run them.”
André Wei
CTO
Groupe Chantelle
“We’ve cut storage onboarding times with IBM FlashSystem from as much as three days to just an hour. By providing more dynamic cloud services to our customers with help from IBM, we extend our competitive edge.”
Marc Ott
CEO
OS systems AG
“Working with Axians to design and deploy the IBM solutions has put us in control of our data. This means we can continue our expansion in new countries with the confidence that our production systems are fully protected.”
Mohamed Asmine
Solution Architect, Hosting
FrieslandCampina
"Tata Consultancy Services continues to develop advanced solutions and fully managed services that cover the complete workflow for the financial sector. By incorporating innovative technologies such as IBM FlashSystem, TCS is offering its client enhanced cyber resilience, increased scalability and improved environmental performance. As data volumes relentlessly increase, TCS and IBM can bring capacity and flexibility to the market, ready for the next growth era in the banking, financial services and insurance sector."
Chen Kamer
CEO
Tata Consultancy Services
"Whenever we have a business challenge, Core ICT is there to help us find a creative technical solution. They understand our business and they know our existing infrastructure, so their advice is extremely valuable."
Xavier Lenoble
IT Manager
UCM
“The goal is for the information to be available to health personnel and residents when they need it. In short, we link Health Norway together.”
Endre Storeheier Nerland
Infrastructure Manager
Norsk helsenett SF
“Our IBM Power Systems and IBM FlashSystem environments add to our flexibility and therefore our competitive edge, by enabling us to place workloads wherever it makes the most sense to run them.”
André Wei
CTO
Groupe Chantelle
“We’ve cut storage onboarding times with IBM FlashSystem from as much as three days to just an hour. By providing more dynamic cloud services to our customers with help from IBM, we extend our competitive edge.”
Marc Ott
CEO
OS systems AG
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Footnotes
1Through IBM Storage Assurance Perpetual, IBM guarantees that data can be moved between FlashSystem devices while always maintaining an active path to data from servers and applications using the data, when Storage Partitions are migrated as described in the IBM Storage FlashSystem documentation for the relevant Storage Virtualize release and FlashSystem.
Internal contract terms are found here (contract to be updated by 2/25): https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/internal/?ref=i126-9801-01-04-2024-zz-en
2Industry-standard QLC expects about 1,000 P/E (i.e.: write) cycles, https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/write-cycle, whereas FlashCore Module 4 drives, which are in the C200, achieve 5,500 P/E cycles prior to wear out, using internal testing developed using the JEDEC Standards for Retention.
3IBM sponsored report: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of IBM Storage Assurance ESG Report (Page 7) https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/10a99803f32fd7b3.
4Please see details and definition of maintenance in the maintenance contract found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?ref=Z126-8971-04-05-2023-us-en
5C200 configuration uses a 1:4:1 data reduction ratio. The 16TB HDD configuration is an IBM FS7300 with a 5U92 HDD expansion attached using 81 16TB industry standard HDD drives.
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Recognized in Gartner Magic Quadrant for General Purpose Disk Arrays from 2013-2018