IBM helps Small Business Virtualization
To cater for one of the fastest growing parts of the storage marketplace, IBM has announced that its storage virtualization software is to be packaged for SME’s (small-to-medium sized businesses).
The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software is designed to improve storage utilization rates, energy efficiency, admin productivity, availability, and scalability of critical applications. The software will significantly improve the flexibility and responsiveness of IT infrastructures by creating consolidated, virtual pools of information.
The new SVC Entry Edition helps SME’s to manage growth and improve the return on their storage investments while also helping o simplify operations. SVC Entry Edition delivers the same capabilities as the standard SVC edition, but is built on more affordable hardware. What this means is that any IBM business partners that are familiar with SVC will be able to support clients using the Entry Edition. SVC Entry Edition is licensed by the number of disk drives virtualized as opposed to per terabyte – making it more accessible and affordable.
Since its introduction in 2003, over 14,000 SVC engines running more than 4,600 SVC systems have been shipped by IBM.
IBM also announced that it has made a new world record SPC disk-based benchmark that demonstrates the scalability of SVC. The new benchmark doesn’t just beat the previous SVC measurement but does so with IBM’s new Space-Efficient Virtual Disk thin provisioning technology enabled. The new SPC-1 benchmark of SVC running with IBM DS4700 disk supports 274,997.58 SPC-1 IOPS(TM) per second.
SVC Entry Edition is released on November 21.
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