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IBM Storage DS8000

IBM Storage DS8000

Designed to harness the full power of mainframe architectures, ensuring the availability of critical business workloads
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New IBM Storage DS8000 (10th Generation) is the latest innovation in enterprise-class storage for IBM Z and IBM i architectures.

IBM Storage DS8000 helps your business achieve stronger data-driven decisions, access deeper insights and develop trust and confidence while increasing security and data privacy.

IBM Storage DS8000 is the storage solution of enterprise data systems designed to ensure the availability of critical business workloads and lowering business risk of outages helps to ensure funding for future projects such as AI​.

Protect your data with 100% encryption

IBM DS8000 storage systems feature hardware snapshot and replication capabilities,
and data protection through encryption.

IBM Copy Service Manager simplifying your IBM storage management network
Benefits

Benefits

Accelerate application responsiveness

Data access speed boost and reduce latency with Improved reliability and higher availability (up to 8-9´s%) enterprises can ensure ensure that critical business operations run smoothly without interruptions.

Cyber resilience and Compliance

Safeguard sensitive data meeting regulatory compliance requirements with Advanced Security Features, like enhanced encryption, access controls, and data protection measures.

Future-Proofing Scalability

Innovative storage technology ensuring compatibility with future advancements and new technologies with a scale storage capacity to meet growing data demands.

Business Continuity

Robust disaster recovery and ensure business continuity in the event of data loss or system failure with multi-site replication, advanced data protection​.

Cost efficency

Optimized Capacity Management and low TCO, with automated tiering and better data compression driving efficient storage utilization by reducing the need for additional storage investments.​

Reduced Management Overhead

Improved backup and recovery processes minimize downtime and data loss, enhancing operational resilience.​

Features

Cyber resilience with IBM Safeguarded Copy IBM Copy Services Manager AI-driven management and proactive support Automated data placement Security and Privacy Reliable storage for mission-critical containers
Prevent your data from being modified or deleted due to user errors, malicious destruction, malware or ransomware attacks with hundreds of immutable copies per volume, which can be used as a trusted source for surgical or full recovery of a production environment.
Integration with IBM Z + IBM i

Optimize  workloads with tailored features and capabilities that enhance  security, efficiency, performance, HA/DR, and cyber resiliency.

High avalability and disaster recovery

High avalability with HyperSwap technology, which provides no-data-loss capabilities within metropolitan distances. IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex enables faster recovery times for IBM Z and Power HA for IBM i, with superior RPO and RTO over long distances.

Ultra-low application response times

Process huge volumes of transactions faster while unlocking greater value for mission-critical workloads with ultra-low storage latencies.

Innovative technologies

Predict capabilities and enhance performance and reliability with AI and analytics tools.

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Enable your hybrid cloud as a new storage tier for backup, archive and disaster recovery operations on IBM Z systems environments. TCT protects your data with AES-256 encryption and provides smart end-to-end integration between IBM Z and its storage that provides significant savings in mainframe CPU utilization on large data migrations.

Fiber Channel Endpoint Security

Ensure all data flowing on FICON and Fiber Channel Protocol (FCP) links from IBM Z systems to DS8000 are encrypted and protected. IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security provides in-flight protection for all data, independent of the operating system, file system or acces method in use.

Support and services

With all Expert Care support levels, IBM support can acces a shared view of your live infrastructure through Storage Insights to help facilitate collaborative issue resolution.

IBM DS8000 + IBM Z

IBM DS8000 + IBM Z is an unbeatable combination providing an end-to-end integration with storage.

IBM Storage DS8000 is the storage solution of enterprise data systems designed to provide operational costs reduction and prepare the business for future scalability and technology integration, ​ensuring the availability of critical business workloads.



Availability Performance Innovation Readiness
Avoid disruptions with system redundancy designed for 99.999999% (eight 9’s) availability. Deny cyber attackers with secure infrastructure from the initial boot-up to the complete path of every I/O. Automate cyber resilience to continue operations and rapidly recover despite a cyber-incident.

DS8A10 model A01

New

Designed for midrange organizations looking for balance between performance, capacity and cost, meeting storage challenges with advanced functionality

DS8A50 model A05

New

Latest innovation in enterprise-class multi frame storage offers the ideal combination of high performance, capacity and cost

DS8980F model 998

 

Offers the best performance for organizations that want to expand their workload possibilities to AI / ML, Business Intelligence and Machine Learning

DS8950F model 996

 

Designed for large organizations looking to consolidate all their mission-critical workloads under a single enterprise storage solution

DS8910F model 994

 

Designed for midrange organizations looking to meet storage challenges with advanced functionality delivered in a prepackaged single rack solution

    DS8910F model 993

     

    Flexible rackless solution to be integrated into IBM z15 T02, IBM LinuxONE III LT2, or customer provided 19-inch industry standard racks.

    Single frame

    10th Generation

    Multi frame

    10th Generation

    Multi frame

    9th Generation

    Multi frame

    9th Generation

    Single frame

    9th Generation

    Rack mount

    9th Generation

    Resources

    Resources

    IBM Storage Expert Care for IBM DS8000

    IBM offers a simplified, standardized approach to service and support for IBM DS8000 systems, helping optimize system avalability and reduce costs.

    Technology Lifecycle Services for IBM Storage

    IBM provides support and services to help clients plan, deploy, support, optimize and refresh their IBM Storage solutions.

    IBM DS8900F Data Sheet

    Access all techincal details of our latest model IBM DS8900F and how it can help your business.

    Data Resilience Solution Brief

    Minimize business impacts from ransomware, cyber-attacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, and other threats.

    IBM DS8000 Encryption, Transparent Cloud Tiering and Endpoint security

    Learn about the use of encryption technology to maintain the security and accessibility of encrypted data.

    Related poducts

    Related poducts

    IBM Z systems

    IBM z16™ is the latest iteration of IBM Z® mainframes with on-chip AI inferencing and industry-first quantum-safe technologies.

    IBM Power Systems

    Respond faster to business demands, protect your data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation.

    IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape

    High performance All Flash and high capacity storage solutions to provide data protection and disaster recovery for your hybrid cloud with virtual tape or object store configurations.

    IBM Storage Insights

    Optimize your storage infrastructure with unparalleled visibility, analytics, and end-to- end monitoring for complex storage environments.

    IBM Storage as a Service

    On-premises data storage solution where IBM provides and manages IBM DS8000 hardware priced with a flexible cloud-like, consumption-based model.

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