XIV Business Benefits

IBM XIV Delivering excellent business benefits across the board.

XIV Enables IT teams to do more, provide better services to enterprise users, and spend less.

Its single architecture provides a cost-effective and powerful solution for all storage needs
Multiple differential snapshots with consistent high performance enable a multi-generation logical backup solution
Revolutionary snapshotting improves and simplifies backup, software testing, and more

Built-in virtualisation and easy management enable responsive SAN services – giving users what they want and without delay
Better performance creates better service organisation-wide and reduces efforts in maintaining performance levels
Outstanding reliability reduces enormously the risk of data loss
Higher availability prevents business lost to downtime

The system yields outstanding power, cooling, and space efficiencies per TB, due to its use of enterprise-class, very high density slower rotation (VHDSR) drives and optimisation of disk capacity
Thin provisioning, powerful snapshot features, and easy management – all of which streamline system overhead — further help reduce overall costs

XIV technology is scalable in all key aspects, including storage, interfaces, cache, CPU power, and internal bandwidth
As a result, any increase in XIV capacity yields a linear increase in the number/amount of spindles, CPU, cache, and connectivity, increasing performance and fast information access even as data volumes grow
Most enterprise systems on the market today scale in capacity only; the ability to increase performance with capacity is an XIV differentiator