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IBM FlashSystems Updateand Marketplace Overview

December 2013

John SingExecutive IT Consultant

IBM Systems and Technology

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“How can I leverage all this data for my business and keep what I truly need?”

“Can you get me up and running fast?” “Can I add functions and scale?”

Business Critical…

“Keep me running!Secure my data.”

Economics = Speed, Flexibility & Labor Costs

Economics =LOB specific (Risk, Expertise, etc.)

Economics = Business Impact

Data Intensive Business SolutionsStart Quickly… Add Value…

Client Feedback: Data Economics

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Why Flash…

In the last 10 years

…and everything waits

Source: IBM and Industry Estimates

CPU Performance 8 - 10x increase

DRAM Speed 7- 9x

Network Speed 100x

Bus Speed 20x

Disk Speed 1.2x

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The Economics of Flash

Reduced latency tenfold for Oracle Retail platform.

…5TB in 2U of rack space vs. 1,300 disk drives providing 400K IOPs, less than 1/10th the cost…

“I've taken away about four days of work time…down to about half an hour now. I'm doing it at the same cost I would have done four years

ago, or probably lower.”

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Why does Flash Latency make such a difference?

I/O TimeI/O Time Network Time

Network Time CPU TimeCPU Time

I/O TimeI/O

TimeNetwork

TimeNetwork

Time CPU TimeCPU Time

I/O TimeI/O Time Network Time

Network Time CPU TimeCPU Time

From an application’s perspective, all client requests take time…

Newer CPUs help…

But what if you could fix the I/O bottleneck?

Time RecoveredQuery Time

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time

CPU Utilization Waiting for I/OWaiting for I/O

Work

I/O Serviced by DiskIssue/Process I/O request ~ 100+100 μs

Wait for I/O to be serviced ~ 5,000 μs

Waiting for I/OWaiting for I/O

Work

Waiting for I/OWaiting for I/O

Work

CPU Utilization = ~4% Less Work, More WaitLess Work, More Wait

time

CPU Utilization WorkWork

Wait

I/O Serviced by FlashSystemIssue/Process I/O request ~ 100+100 μs

Wait for I/O to be serviced ~ 200 μs

FlashSystem

WorkWork

Wait

WorkWork

Wait

WorkWork

Wait

WorkWork

Wait

WorkWork

Wait

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Technology shift among storage tiers

Cost-optimizedblended withNearline disks

Primary data

Backup data

Long term archiving,“Cold data“

WorkflowData shipping

Solid-State Drives (SSD)

Cost-optimizedw/compression & deduplication

Disk and VTL

Linear Tape File System (LTFS)

High capacitive Tapes

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“All Flash” Systems from IBMRedefine the Economics of Computing to Meet the Demands of a Smarter Planet

IBM announces new investments to help clients benefit from the value of flash• Investing ~$1B in flash system research

& development

• 12 IBM Flash Centers of Competency around the world to help clients transform their systems

• IBM integrates the IBM FlashSystemTM in the portfolio of IBM storage offerings

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IBM Flash Storage Impact on Systems EconomicsBetter Economics Without Re-architecting Applications

The data below are based on average operating conditions that may or may not be representative of a particular customer’s operating environment. The use case measurements are from TMS customers using the flash technology that has been integrated into IBM’s systems

85% Reductionin batch

processing times

50% Reductionin Software Licenses

75% Reductionin footprint;

1 Petabyte on 1 floor time

80% Reductionin Energy

Usage

100 µs LatencyNo more

bottlenecks

Enterprise ReliabilityHigh Availability, 2D Flash

RAID & IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM

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Flash Enables a New, Optimized Infrastructurefor Operational, Transactional Workloads…

Secure Transactionswith Integrity

Rack Servers

IBM FlashSystem

OpenStack, Hadoop…

Storwize with All Flash

2x Latency Improvement5x Capacity Reduction

Add Flash non-disruptively via DS8870 and Storwize SVC

System z& PowerWorkloads…

DB2

Core Transactional Systems Social, Mobile, Analytics

Source: IBM Estimates

Systems of Record Systems of Engagement

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2012/08/16/the-move-from-systems-of-record-to-systems-of-engagement/2/

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Journey to “Systems of Engagement”

Value: engage users in new, data-driven processes

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15k SAS Hard DisksHigh performance spinning media

IBM FlashSystem flash storage system

Solid State DiskI/O performance in HDD form factor

IOPS

Cost / GB Flash $

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‘Hybrid’ HDDs with flash Improved I/O with spinning media capacities

Storage Spectrum with FlashStorage Spectrum with Flash

7.2k SAS Hard DisksCapacity / Cost

Flash Drawers & AdaptersHigh IOPs Performance

TapeBackup, recovery, and archiving

Seconds

5-15 milliSeconds

100 microSeconds

< 1 milliSecond Latency

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Optimized IBM Flash Portfolio

Flash Cooperative Caching

EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer + IBM DS8870 Storage System + Easy Tier ServerAdvanced Tiering Software w/ Flash Drawers, Adapters, SSDs

IBM FlashSystemFlash Optimized Systems, All-Flash, Hybrid Flash,

Servers

Flash

Storage

EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer Flash Adapters, SSDs, EXP30 or EXP24S Direct Attached Drawers

IBM High IOPS Adapters + FlashCacheFlash Server Caching w/ Flash Adapters and SSDs

Software

Flash in Server

Flash in Storage

Flash Caching

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IBM Flash Software

Close storage to CPU performance gap

Disks

Server Cache

IBM FlashCache Storage Accelerator(IBM System x)

Tier data and boost storage performance with Easy Tier Server

5th Generation Easy Tier (IBM DS8870 with IBM Power 7)

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EasyTier + SSDs in Servers

EasyTier extended to Server SSD - a unified scale out and scale up storage platform solving mission critical

memory speed storage workload problem.

Today 2 ways of solving the memory speed storage workload problem. Create scalability, integrity, reliability

and availability problem.

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Strong Storage FunctionNot Optimal Performance

Strong Storage FunctionNot Optimal Performance

Strong PerformanceWeak Storage Function

Strong PerformanceWeak Storage Function

Strong Storage FunctionAnd Performance

Strong Storage FunctionAnd Performance

Cluster with Direct Attach

SSDs

SAN/NAS Shared Storage

SSD SSD

SSD

Combined DAS and External StorageWith Data Coherency

SSD SSD

SSDSSD in

SAN/NAS Storage

More Tiers APIs to Software

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IBM Enterprise-Class Flash in DS8870

Exceptional Performance

SuperiorReliability

Unique Server Integration

Efficiency & Optimization

DS8870Enterprise Storage for Critical Applications

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Optimized Local Data Placement – Easy TierSystem learns workload, does automated relocation, removes user complexity

Easy Tier for DS8000, SVC, V7000 V1, V2 - 2 Tier Now - 3 Tier New - Server attached Flash Tier Future - LTFS Tape as a Tier

SAS HDD

Easy Tier can provide better performance in 1/2 the floor space 40% less energy consumed96 NLSAS HDDs + 16 SSDs (5.7 KW) vs. 192 FC HDDs (9.5 KW)

SSDNL SAS

Logical volume

VTSLTFS

SSD RAID Array(s)

FC/SAS RAID Array(s)

SATA RAID Array(s)

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Easy Tier V4 Application PerformanceEquivalent performance with or without encryption drives in the DS8800

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Proven enterprise flash for DS8870

1,056 15k hard disk drives

224 flash drives

146GB 15k(RAID 10)

All-Flash(RAID 5)

All-Flash Benefit

Raw Capacity 152TB 90TB 41% Less

Usable Capacity 72TB 72TB Same

Response Time ~ 1 ms ~ 0.3 ms 70% Less

Drive Count 1,056 224 80% Less

Frames 3 frames 2 frames 33% Less

Energy Usage 13.9kw 5.3kw 62% Less

$ / GB / IOP Equivalent Equivalent NA

All-flash DS8870 delivers the ultimate in performance, resiliency and economics

Same usable capacityMuch better performanceMuch smaller footprintMuch less energyAnd can reduce overall IT infrastructure costs

All-flash or hybrid-flash

All-HDD

Source: Wikibon

Performance based on measurements and projections using IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment.

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Start Small and Grow – Storwize Platform

Real-time Storage Usage Analytics

Simple, Rapid Development

IBM Storwize PlatformConverting SVC from a Product to a Platform

Start Small & Scale-up

Use WhatYou HaveIBM & non-IBM

Built-in Expertise

RapidDeployment

Buy LessStorage

Over 36,000 systems shipped in 2 years since inception… Over $1B revenue in 24 months…

Award winning storage platform: features, quality, reliability, support…

Packages• IBM Storwize SVC (Software

Appliance; No Storage)• IBM Storwize 3K (Low-end)• IBM Storwize 7K (Larger)

Priced Options• IBM Storwize Real-time Compression• IBM Storwize Unified (File)• IBM Storwize Metro / Global Mirror• IBM Storwize External Virtualization

Embedded Options• IBM PureSystems• Business Partner Solutions• …powered by Storwize embedded…

Under Consideration• IBM Storwize Flash• IBM Storwize ObjectStor• IBM Storwize Cloud

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IBM FlashSystem Solution

IBM clients gain…• The extreme performance of IBM FlashSystem with IBM MicroLatency™

• Advanced storage functionality of IBM SVCo Thin Provisioning – allocate storage “just in time”o Easy Tier – storage efficiencyo FlashCopy – point in time copieso Mirroring/Copy Services – data replication and protectiono Real-Time Compression – up to 5X more data in the same physical space

• An ability to cost effectively deploy quickly and realize immediate results

Combining IBM SVC & IBM FlashSystem™In a 24/7 market, enterprise clients often strive to achieve maximum performance coupled with deep features and functionality. And naturally, it must be delivered cost effectively. With the introduction of the IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM FlashSystem bundle, a solution now exists

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IBM Storwize V7000 FlashSystem

Extreme PerformanceExtreme Performance Feature Rich SDS SystemsFeature Rich SDS Systemswith

IBM Storwize V7000 FlashSystem Edition

Extreme Performance with IBM MicroLatency™ All Flash 20TB RAIDed data capacityMacro Efficiency 1U form factorVariable Stripe RAID™ + 2D Flash RAID for Enterprise Reliability

IBM FlashSystem 820

Competitive EconomicsOver 250K IOPS

Flash Copy for Backup & Optimal Workload Availability$/TB Value with Thin Provisioning & Real Time Compression

Storage Efficiency with Easy Tier

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XIV SSD Solution•High capacity SSDs used as secondary

cacheo 400GB SSD device per moduleo 6TB of total cache per rack o Housed in PCI caddy in rear of moduleo Added to all installed modules

•No tuning necessaryo Immediate gain for all applicationso Optional selective volume activation

•Available to all Gen3 systemso Order with SSD from factoryo Field non-disruptive upgrade

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Outstanding Applications PerformanceWith SSD Caching

Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput that any user will experience will vary depending upon considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user's job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed.

Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve throughput improvements equivalent to the performance ratios stated here.

Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput that any user will experience will vary depending upon considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user's job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed.

Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve throughput improvements equivalent to the performance ratios stated here.

Core ERP (IOPS)• CRM and Financial DB

Workload• 70/30/8k

Medical Record App Server (RT)• Healthcare EMR Workload• 100% random IO

DB2 Brokerage (IOPS)• Heavy Random Brokerage• 90/10, Mixed block IO• 84% Random Read Miss

WebSphere Datastore (IOPS)

• Web 2.0 OLTP Workload• 80/20/4k

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Completing IBM storage portfolio with All-Flash Arrays

Accelerate critical applications and unleash the power of performance

IBM FlashSystem All-Flash Arraysoffer extreme performance, low latency and enterprise attributes to handle fast moving

operational data in real time Direct Attach

All Flash Arrays

Hybrid Storage Systems

Direct Attach Flash (PCIe adapters, server SSDs) provides low latency, high performance storage for in-server applications

Hybrid Storage Systems(Storage with SSDs & HDDs)provide a higher level of enterprise capabilities with superior capacity

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Hybrid arrays vs. dedicated Flash arrays?

What you get:A consolidation play

Non-deterministic performance

Ease of integration

Licensing (still common)

Built-in Tiering

Hot-spots

Another tier to manage

Relative ease of use

Marginal application efficiencies

Proven resiliency

SSDs

What you don’t get:Best Latency / Best Performance

Deterministic/Consistent Performance

Architecture design for Flash

Reduced footprint

Rack space reductions

Power/Cooling savings

Simplicity

Lesser Tiers

Zero Tuning

Maximum application efficiency

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IBM FlashSystem Portfolio

Extreme Performance

Macro EfficiencyMicroLatency™ Enterprise ReliabilityExtreme Performance

IBM FlashSystem SolutionIBM FlashSystem 820San Volume Controller (SVC)

IBM FlashSystem 820 IBM FlashSystem 720IBM FlashSystem 810

IBM FlashSystem 710

Enterprise Features

• Boost enterprise productivity• Improve application performance• Ideal for OLTP, data warehousing

and OLAP environments• High availability system

• Acceleration of applications • Enterprise feature sets to

ensure data protection

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IBM FlashSystem 720 / FlashSystem 820 Architecture

Redundant Power Supplies

Redundant Fans

12 Flash Modules(10+1+1)

1U Chassis

N+1 batteries

Redundant Management Control Processors

Redundant RAID controllers

Two Dual-Ported 8 Gb/s FC or40 Gb/s QDR IB Interfaces

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1 Petabyte, 1 Rack, 22 Million IOPSWhat it means… Or, solving for 22 Million IOPs…

Source: IBM Actual Results and Estimates I

Either 315 RacksPerformance Optimized Disk…

Or 630 RacksHigh Capacity Disk…

• 1 Petabyte: 1 Floor Tile

• 100 microsecond latency

• 22 Million IOPS

• 210 GB/s

• 12.6 KW power

1 RackIBM FlashSystem

Less power than the average 200TB array

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Tipping Point Demonstration

Highly Scalable & I/O IntensiveOLTP Database Workload• Compelling Economics

Significantly improved workload efficiency

• Extreme CapacityBuy only what you need; add capacity as needed

• Application TransparencyAvoid risk and cost of change as you grow or subside

• Continuous AvailabilityUninterrupted access to data with consistent performance

IBM FlashSystem, IBM Power Systems and DB2

IBM Power 780(4 nodes, 128 Cores,

2TB Memory)

IBM FlashSystem 820(4-1U units, 20TB

Each)

Fibre Channel Networking

10 GbE Networking

ibm.com\storage\flash

IBM DB2 v10.5

(10-8 core cluster members)

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Tipping Point Demonstration ResultsNormalized $ / IOPS

Energy Space

IBMFlashSystem

2,500Spindles+ 128 SSDs

5,000 Spindles

11x Less

80x Less26x Less

IBMFlashSystem

2,500Spindles+ 128 SSDs

5,000 Spindles

IBMFlashSystem

2,500Spindles+ 128 SSDs

5,000 Spindles

•ibm.com\storage\flash

1.3 Million IOPS

43K+ Transactions p/sec

13K Updates per second

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IBM Differentiators – Enterprise Reliability

Superior Protection: Beyond Disk RAID

Self-Recovering Flash Modules

Avoid system rebuilds

Protection Within And Across

Flash Modules

Variable Stripe SizesRead Disturb Mitigation

Automatic Read SweeperHigh-Speed Clock Recovery

Advanced Engineering = Less Maintenance

Superior Durability: Using the Best Flash

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MLC eMLC SLC0K

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2013 2014 2015+

IBM FlashSystem Roadmap

Next Generation FlashSystem

 

Next Generation F/O

FlashSystem

IBM FlashSystem 710, 810, 720, 820

1U, 24TB, 32nm SLC, eMLC450K IOPS, 8Gb FC, QDR IB  

SVC Integrated Management Next Gen SVC Integrated

Mgmt / Adv. FunctionSVC IntegrationEnhancements

FlashSystem Solution5U 24TBScalable to 8x SVC FlashSystem 820

Legend

Available Future

PureSystem Integration Next Gen PureSystem

FlashSystem F/O Flex Node

Next Gen. Big Data/Analytics solutions

DS8K and Storwize integration

Integration into Big Data/ Analytics solutions

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IBM FlashSystem: A Marketplace Overview

So many vendors, so little time……

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A World Full of “Flash” Options

FlashSystem

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Everyone uses FlashThe difference is how it is implemented

•HW-based Vs SW-based architecture

•Purposed-built for flash or not?

•Flash Chip Choices

•Data Protection Schemes

•Scalability, Reliability, Availability

•Method of Deployment

•Functionality and Features

•Hybrid or All Flash

•And yes… Latency!

HW-only data path

FPGA

IBM FlashSystem

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SSD is NOT Flash Storage

Flash inside a Disk Enclosure

Technology designed for Disk, not Flash

Data protection outside SSD

Data Path handled by OS/Controllers outside SSD

Performance is reduced and marginal

Common in hybrid arraysFocus is to maintain functionality and consolidationFocus on Tiering and Data MovementSSD competes with all other disks’ for resourcesWhen performance matters (which is ALWAYS), SSD is not the best

Common in hybrid arraysFocus is to maintain functionality and consolidationFocus on Tiering and Data MovementSSD competes with all other disks’ for resourcesWhen performance matters (which is ALWAYS), SSD is not the best

SSDAdded Latency by:

Controllers

SW Layers

SAS Controllers HDDs

Tiering

Shared data path

SSD is not Flash Storage

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Rule of Thumb: consider 1U IBM FlashSystem when > 5 SSD

Rule of Thumb: consider 1U IBM FlashSystem when > 5 SSD

SSDSSD

EasyTier(SSD and disk mix)

525K IOPS 300 Watt 25/100 µs write/read

FlashSystem 820 FlashSystem 720FlashSystem 820 FlashSystem 720

Why? IBM FlashSystem provides better lifetime, higher performance and smaller energy foot-print when needing more Flash than 5 SSDs

SSD when:< 6 SSDs for EasyTierSVC (external EasyTier) not indicated solution

SSD when:< 6 SSDs for EasyTierSVC (external EasyTier) not indicated solution

SSD is not Flash Storage

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IBM FlashSystem Focus areas

Performance (Latency):

Efficiency:

Reliability:

HW-based design/FPGA

Application/Server, Data Center

VSR, 2D Flash RAID

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SW-Based Designs: SW Controlled Data PathFlash HW and SW-based designs

Front End Directors Front End Directors

Back End DirectorsBack End Directors

OSOSCPUCPU

Outside World

SSD/SAS/SATA HDD’s

CacheCache

o Added latency by:Array Controllers and SW Layers

SAS Controllers and Shared bus

Tiering and Shared data path

Form Factor Enclosure

SSD

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HW-Based Designs: HW controlled data path

Flash HW and SW-based designs (cont)

o Maximum performance and lowest latency by:Optimized FPGA HW data path

Custom HW design

Massive parallelism handling data

25us write latency into flash media

IO Interface FPGAIO Interface FPGA

FPGAFPGACPUCPU

Outside World

Flash Media

FPGAFPGA CPUCPUAutobahn

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IBM FlashSystem Core Performance Concepts

• IBM FlashSystem is a hardware-only data path o Custom FPGA-based data movement

decreases latency vs. software

• Focus is on MicroLatencyTM on standard SAN interfaces vs. competitors

• Comparable latency on SAN compared to DAS (PCIe)o All the benefits of shared storage with no

latency impact

• Distributed out-of-data-path CPU processing

RAID Controllers

IO Modules

Flash Modules12x

16 PPC CPUs

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Change the Economics of Storage

Reduce Latency

Increase Manageability

Cut Environmental Costs

Improve Compute Efficiency

Provide Scalability

Guarantee Reliability

Reduced TCO Business Value

Focus on those that deliver all of these, and more…

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IBM Flash Software for Management, Caching & Tiering

IBM Flash Storage PortfolioMeeting the Demands of a Smarter Planet

All-Flash Storwize V7000

IBM Flash DrawersAdapters & SSDs

IBM FlashSystem

Flash in IBM XIV

and DS8870

All of the above supported with Flash Storage TODAY!

Thank You