IBM Storwize V3700 Storage Device

• Ease of use: The new generation GUI and point-and-click system management capabilities offer easy-to-use data management.
• FlashCopy®: Creates instant copies of data for back up or application testing.
• Thin provisioning: Support business applications that need to grow dynamically, while consuming only the space actually used.

• IBM Easy Tier®: Delivers better performance while controlling costs.
• Internal virtualization: Helps you quickly respond to changing requirements.
• Non disruptive migration: Speeds implementation and minimizes disruption.
• IP replication: Reduces remote mirroring costs with innovative network optimization.
• Turbo performance: Increases system maximum IOPS and maximum throughput

Highlights

• Easily manage and deploy storage using a breakthrough graphical user interface
• Gain efficiency with internal storage virtualization and high-performance thin provisioning
• Have continuous access to data with integrated nondisruptive migration
• Improve network utilization for remote mirroring with innovative replication technology
• Optimize costs for mixed workloads, with up to three times performance improvement with only five percent flash storage capacity using IBM® Easy Tier®¹
• Comply with Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) Level 3 and European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) specifications
• Benefit from advanced functionality and reliability usually only found in more expensive systems
• Scale up to 240 2.5-inch disk drives or 120 3.5-inch disk drives with nine expansion units
• Improve data availability with support for Distributed RAID
• Help reduce power consumption with energy-saving features

In the era of cloud, big data and analytics, and mobile and social computing, organizations need to meet ever-changing demands for storage while also improving data economics. IT must deliver more services faster and more efficiently, enable real-time insight and support more customer interaction. The right infrastructure allows clients to share information, secure transactions and drive real-time insights.

Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ software, the IBM Storwize® family, including IBM Storwize V3700, helps organizations achieve better data economics by supporting these new workloads that are critical to their success. Storwize family systems can handle the massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications, enable rapid and flexible cloud services deployments, and deliver the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.

IBM Storwize V3700, the entry-level system in the IBM Storwize family, is an efficient, easy-to-use hybrid system designed to complement virtual server environments while delivering flexibility and innovative storage functions provided by IBM Spectrum Virtualize.