A family of offerings providing a procurement choice with usage-based billing, so your storage consumption better aligns to your business need
A different way to procure storage capacity
IBM Storage Utility enables you to procure storage your way, by paying for capacity only as you consume it. We identify your current and future needs and deploy the entire projected capacity on day-one giving you maximum performance for no disruptions during growth spurts.
Features
IBM Storage System Utility: IBM offers the flexibility to choose between a long term or short term commitment for the pay for use hardware options. The Storage Subscription offers customer choice for those looking for short term contracts. This option offers commitments of just 12 months, renewable to 48 and can be canceled at any time. Ideal for MSPs/CSPs and medium to large enterprises looking to create an inhouse utility, IBM enables a complete solution. By combining IBM LinuxONE and IBM storage, customers can now rent a total solution of compute to capacity in one easy to deploy procurement with pay as you grow pricing.
IBM Storage Insights provides unparalleled level of visibility across your storage environment to help you manage and predict data usage. It is IBM’s enterprise-proven, cognitive, cloud-based system insight platform that enables you to deploy quickly while improving capacity planning. It helps simplify reporting with easy, detailed storage consumption and predicted growth.
Flexible base subscription with variable utilized capacity. Additional capacity is instantly available, simply provision the storage up or down as requirements dictate, and you will be billed upon usage.
When 5 or 6 nines of availability is not enough! Leverage IBM Storage Utility to build very cost effective high availability solutions.
High availability is critical in today's 7x24x365 business world. Traditional 5 and 6 nine arrays may not always be enough. IBM's FlashWatch high availability guarantees zero interruption to data availability and is engineered for today’s business climate where up time is critical. Together, with the IBM Storage Utility, IBM enables you to procure an HA storage solution with IBM HyperSwap for an additional cost of 20% over a traditional lease.
IBM Storage System Utility: IBM offers the flexibility to choose between a long term or short term commitment for the pay for use hardware options. The Storage Subscription offers customer choice for those looking for short term contracts. This option offers commitments of just 12 months, renewable to 48 and can be canceled at any time. Ideal for MSPs/CSPs and medium to large enterprises looking to create an inhouse utility, IBM enables a complete solution. By combining IBM LinuxONE and IBM storage, customers can now rent a total solution of compute to capacity in one easy to deploy procurement with pay as you grow pricing.
IBM Storage Insights provides unparalleled level of visibility across your storage environment to help you manage and predict data usage. It is IBM’s enterprise-proven, cognitive, cloud-based system insight platform that enables you to deploy quickly while improving capacity planning. It helps simplify reporting with easy, detailed storage consumption and predicted growth.
Flexible base subscription with variable utilized capacity. Additional capacity is instantly available, simply provision the storage up or down as requirements dictate, and you will be billed upon usage.
When 5 or 6 nines of availability is not enough! Leverage IBM Storage Utility to build very cost effective high availability solutions.
High availability is critical in today's 7x24x365 business world. Traditional 5 and 6 nine arrays may not always be enough. IBM's FlashWatch high availability guarantees zero interruption to data availability and is engineered for today’s business climate where up time is critical. Together, with the IBM Storage Utility, IBM enables you to procure an HA storage solution with IBM HyperSwap for an additional cost of 20% over a traditional lease.
IBM Storage Utility is available with these products
End-to-end NVMe-accelerated, hybrid cloud enabled high-end enterprise all-flash arrays.
End-to-end NVMe-accelerated, hybrid cloud enabled midrange enterprise flash arrays.
Deploy NVMe end-to-end capabilities and flash performance in an affordable, compact 1U hybrid cloud enabled solution that is easy to use and scale.
Enable AI workloads and consolidate primary and secondary big data storage with industry leading object storage.