What IBM DS8880F can do for your business

IBM® DS8880F data systems are designed to deliver superior all-flash performance and extremely low response times. You gain high availability and reliability to support today’s complex IT environments, and emerging cloud, mobile, social, analytics and cognitive workloads. IBM DS8880F improves business efficiency by consolidating all your mission-critical workloads for IBM Z®, IBM LinuxONE™, IBM Power Systems™ and distributed systems under a single all-flash storage solution with more than six-nines availability.

Superior performance

Dramatically accelerate access to data by reducing up to 10x the application response time and cutting the elapsed time of DB2 transaction in half.

Hybrid cloud connection

Improve business efficiency while reducing capital and operating expenses with server-less direct data transfer from DS8880F to hybrid cloud environments.

Secure data transactions

Secure client and corporate data with at rest encryption and a disaster recovery solution with more than six-nines availability.

Key features

  • Intelligent data placement across flash tiers
  • High-Performance Flash Enclosure Gen2
  • HyperSwap and GDPS integration
  • AIX®, IBM i and Linux support
  • VMware interoperability
  • Transparent cloud tiering
  • Advanced disaster recovery with 2, 3, and 4 site replication
  • FICON (zHPF) and Db2 z/OS integration
  • Super Parallel Access Volumes (Super PAVs)
  • IBM Copy Services Manager
  • Full disk encryption
  • Efficient management and administration
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IBM DS8882F Rack Mounted
IBM DS8882F Rack Mounted
IBM DS8884F Business Class
IBM DS8884F Business Class
IBM DS8886F Enterprise Class
IBM DS8886F Enterprise Class
IBM DS8888F Analytics Class
IBM DS8888F Analytics Class

Which option is right for you?

  • IBM DS8882F

    Delivers powerful enterprise capabilities in a flexible rack mountable solution at the lowest entry cost.

  • IBM DS8884F

    Enables midrange organizations to meet storage challenges with advanced functionality delivered as a single rack solution.

  • IBM DS8886F

    Enterprise-class storage for large organizations provides cost-effective performance and capacity.

  • IBM DS8888F

    Analytics class: delivers superior performance and high capacity for the most demanding, business-critical workloads.

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