IBM XIV Storage System Breakthrough

The IBM XIV Storage System is storage reinvented: a revolutionary high-end data storage system based on a disruptive (grid) technology and designed to support key current and future business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. It is the first single-architecture storage system in the industry. XIV's unique approach and results usher in a new era for enterprise organizations and their data centers. The IBM XIV brand has been in production in a wide range of enterprise organizations since 2005, bringing outstanding benefits in performance, reliability, power consumption and more.

IBM's XIV Storage System provides: 

• First single-architecture storage system
• Simplistic management
• High-end, open disk system
• Time-tested solution to ongoing IT challenges.
• Next generation SAN System
• Connection for any-to-any topology using Gigabit Ethernet
• High performance and reliability
• Exceptional TCO

The XIV system is a core component of IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet and, within that, the Information Infrastructure offering, which helps today's businesses, including SMB, increase efficiency and reduce risk while addressing availability, security, compliance, and information retention.

IBM XIV represents a new paradigm for high-end storage.  Go here for a Tour of the XIV system GUI.