Dynamic Infrastructure
It’s Announcement Day at IBM and today is a big one! Today’s announcements are all about IBM’s Dynamic Infrastructure initiatives. For those who’ve missed it, Dynamic Infrastructure is all about building a smarter, more flexible, more efficient, and more cost-effective computing foundation to enable the next generation of information management. It’s worth taking a look at the DI and Smarter Planet websites. There are some cool ideas there that are worthy of consideration.
Today is a mega-announcement day. There are over a dozen separate hardware and software announcements today. The last time I saw an announcement this big was when we rolled out self-encrypting disks on the DS8000 earlier this year. There’s a lot to cover, and I’ll be writing a series of posts this week covering the highlights of the storage hardware portions of the announcement.
In a nutshell, here are the new storage hardware announcements from IBM:
- DS8700 – The next generation of the DS8000 has arrived. With Power6 processors, a new internal I/O topology, significantly improved performance, and improvements in Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS), it’s the right box for our most demanding customers.
- N series – SAS drives, high-density storage expansions, SnapManager for Hyper-V, and native FCoE support.
- DS5000/DS4000 – 600 GB fibre channel disk drives are now available.
Lots going on, and lots of reading to do. Check back later this week for more details on the announcements.
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