IBM Storage DS8000
Designed to harness the full power of mainframe architectures, ensuring the availability of critical business workloads
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New IBM Storage DS8000 (10th Generation) is the latest innovation in enterprise-class storage for IBM Z and IBM i architectures.

IBM Storage DS8000 helps your business achieve stronger data-driven decisions, access deeper insights and develop trust and confidence while increasing security and data privacy.

IBM Storage DS8000 is the storage solution of enterprise data systems designed to ensure the availability of critical business workloads and lowering business risk of outages helps to ensure funding for future projects such as AI​.

Benefits Accelerate application responsiveness

Data access speed boost and reduce latency with Improved reliability and higher availability (up to 8-9´s%) enterprises can ensure ensure that critical business operations run smoothly without interruptions.

Cyber resilience and Compliance

Safeguard sensitive data meeting regulatory compliance requirements with Advanced Security Features, like enhanced encryption, access controls, and data protection measures.

Future-Proofing Scalability

Innovative storage technology ensuring compatibility with future advancements and new technologies with a scale storage capacity to meet growing data demands.

Business Continuity

Robust disaster recovery and ensure business continuity in the event of data loss or system failure with multi-site replication, advanced data protection​.

Cost efficency

Optimized Capacity Management and low TCO, with automated tiering and better data compression driving efficient storage utilization by reducing the need for additional storage investments.​

Reduced Management Overhead

Improved backup and recovery processes minimize downtime and data loss, enhancing operational resilience.​

Features

Cyber resilience with IBM Safeguarded Copy IBM Copy Services Manager AI-driven management and proactive support Automated data placement Security and Privacy Reliable storage for mission-critical containers
Integration with IBM Z + IBM i

Optimize  workloads with tailored features and capabilities that enhance  security, efficiency, performance, HA/DR, and cyber resiliency.

High avalability and disaster recovery

High avalability with HyperSwap technology, which provides no-data-loss capabilities within metropolitan distances. IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex enables faster recovery times for IBM Z and Power HA for IBM i, with superior RPO and RTO over long distances.

Ultra-low application response times

Process huge volumes of transactions faster while unlocking greater value for mission-critical workloads with ultra-low storage latencies.

Innovative technologies

Predict capabilities and enhance performance and reliability with AI and analytics tools.

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Enable your hybrid cloud as a new storage tier for backup, archive and disaster recovery operations on IBM Z systems environments. TCT protects your data with AES-256 encryption and provides smart end-to-end integration between IBM Z and its storage that provides significant savings in mainframe CPU utilization on large data migrations.

Fiber Channel Endpoint Security

Ensure all data flowing on FICON and Fiber Channel Protocol (FCP) links from IBM Z systems to DS8000 are encrypted and protected. IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security provides in-flight protection for all data, independent of the operating system, file system or acces method in use.

Support and services

With all Expert Care support levels, IBM support can acces a shared view of your live infrastructure through Storage Insights to help facilitate collaborative issue resolution.

IBM DS8000 + IBM Z

IBM DS8000 + IBM Z is an unbeatable combination providing an end-to-end integration with storage.

IBM Storage DS8000 is the storage solution of enterprise data systems designed to provide operational costs reduction and prepare the business for future scalability and technology integration, ​ensuring the availability of critical business workloads.



Availability Performance Innovation Readiness

DS8A10 model A01

New

Designed for midrange organizations looking for balance between performance, capacity and cost, meeting storage challenges with advanced functionality

DS8A50 model A05

New

Latest innovation in enterprise-class multi frame storage offers the ideal combination of high performance, capacity and cost

DS8980F model 998

 

Offers the best performance for organizations that want to expand their workload possibilities to AI / ML, Business Intelligence and Machine Learning

DS8950F model 996

 

Designed for large organizations looking to consolidate all their mission-critical workloads under a single enterprise storage solution

DS8910F model 994

 

Designed for midrange organizations looking to meet storage challenges with advanced functionality delivered in a prepackaged single rack solution

    DS8910F model 993

     

    Flexible rackless solution to be integrated into IBM z15 T02, IBM LinuxONE III LT2, or customer provided 19-inch industry standard racks.

    Single frame

    10th Generation

    Multi frame

    10th Generation

    Multi frame

    9th Generation

    Multi frame

    9th Generation

    Single frame

    9th Generation

    Rack mount

    9th Generation

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