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• Provide customers with a flexible and protected consumption model that increases the lifetime value of their storage investments
• The latest IBM Flash Grid technology makes storage management simpler
IBM recently introduced IBM Storage Assurance, a new IT lifecycle management model designed to provide customers with flexible choice and control to maximize performance in their data centers. This approach allows customers to benefit from the hardware and software innovations of IBM FlashSystem and ensures that their investments are effectively protected. IBM Storage Assurance supports the FlashSystem all-flash product family, including the newly announced FlashSystem 5300, FlashSystem 7300 and FlashSystem 9500.
IBM发布IBM Storage Assurance
According to a recent survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, part of data analytics firm TechTarget, 48% of companies surveyed globally want to increase IT spending in 2024. At the same time, enterprises want to maximize the value of their IT spend without compromising IT performance. The IBM Storage Assurance licensing model complements existing models such as IBM Storage as a Service and IBM Storage Utility, providing customers with a simpler and more straightforward storage ownership experience and increasing the lifetime value of their storage investments.
Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said: "According to our research, enterprise IT departments are increasingly focusing on flexibility in the purchase and maintenance of storage devices. IBM Storage Assurance provides customers with the certainty of their IT budgets, in addition to continuing to provide hardware and software updates to their customers. The program will better support the customer's storage system, allowing them to focus on the business. "
Reinventing the storage experience: more comprehensive, more flexible, and more secure
IBM Storage Assurance provides customers with a modern approach to IT lifecycle management with a subscription model that includes hardware, software upgrades and premium-level Expert Care to ensure that the storage infrastructure is always up-to-date while avoiding downtime, disruptive migrations and duplicate purchases. This model is designed to help customers reduce barriers to purchasing IBM storage products, eliminate the challenges of traditional storage lifecycle management, and provide the following support for FlashSystem 5300, FlashSystem 7300 and FlashSystem 9500:
• Take advantage of system-wide updates with complete updates to drives, controllers, software, and more.
• Leverage the industry-leading full NVMe FlashSystem portfolio to help customers plan their storage needs and ensure maximum performance for their data-intensive workloads.
• Secure your business, applications and data with IBM's patented compute storage architecture with hardware acceleration and AI-enhanced cyber threat detection.
• Protect your storage purchase with a subscription model, including lifecycle and performance-based hardware and software upgrades, with flat, transparent pricing for 4 to 8 years. [1]
• Get access to the hardware and software innovations of the FlashSystem family of products, and enjoy technical support for non-disruptive migrations.
• More flexible contract terms, such as out-of-life upgrades through trade-in.
• IBM Storage Assurance已包含提供IBM ExpertCare 支持计划。
"We are very pleased to introduce our customers to the new IBM Storage Assurance program. It provides system-wide hardware refreshes and software upgrades and is subject to service-level agreements (SLAs) and flat-pricing contracts," said David Howard, Senior Consultant, Converge Technology Solutions. "With this program, customers can accurately budget and easily meet business needs. We believe it will bring many benefits to our customers. "
IBM Storage Assurance is designed to help customers gain access to the latest technology advancements in IBM FlashSystem and address issues such as end-of-support support, capacity caps, operating system requirements, and more.
"With the launch of IBM Storage Assurance, we want to change the status quo of enterprise storage systems and become truly customer-centric, providing computational storage powered by AI data services and all-inclusive software integration options to solve our customers' pressing challenges and help them adopt IBM's innovations. Denis Kennelly, general manager of IBM's storage business, said. "As businesses face increasing pressure to leverage financial resources, increase operational agility, adopt energy-efficient solutions, and protect data, we can help customers meet the challenges with a trusted, fast, intelligent, and easy-to-use all-flash portfolio. "
To further simplify storage management, optimize workload performance and uninterrupted operations, IBM is also announcing IBM Flash Grid technology and policy-based high availability enhancements. IBM Flash Grid enables customers to manage storage systems as a highly available, independently scalable environment and seamlessly move workloads between systems through a single control panel. Key benefits include:
• Simplified management: Customers can aggregate multiple IBM FlashSystems and manage them as a single, scalable storage mesh for high availability, data replication and non-disruptive application data migration.
• AIOps automation and simulation: Customers can simulate workloads with the AI capabilities of IBM Flash Grid, giving them flexibility in workload planning.
In addition, IBM will release FlashSystem-based data replication and high availability capabilities that provide customers with easy-to-use, high-performance disaster recovery solutions by automating deployment and data replication between systems, while minimizing overhead, higher throughput and lower latency. In the second half of this year, IBM plans to further enhance these capabilities with support for high availability and replication to third-party systems, making it easier to configure, manage, and monitor data replication.
IBM FlashSystem provides customers with unprecedented data security with the cyber threat detection capabilities of the recently released fourth-generation IBM FlashCore module. These new features also apply to the new IBM FlashSystem 5300.
Kai Leibkuchler, senior manager of systems and network engineering at Amadeus, said, "We have IBM SAN Volume Controller for all of our storage products, and IBM FlashSystem allows us to choose what we need. It's fast, reliable, highly secure and easy to manage, and I'm very excited to see what IBM FlashSystem 5300 brings to the table." "
IBM Storage Assurance和 IBM FlashSystem 5300 现已正式发布。 了解有关 IBM Storage Assurance 和 IBM FlashSystem 5300的更多信息，请点击以下链接：
https://www.ibm.com/flashsystem/storage-assurance
https://www.ibm.com/products/flashsystem-5300
IBM's statements regarding its plans, direction, and intentions may be changed or withdrawn at any time without notice. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality of IBM Product Descriptions are also at IBM's sole discretion.
[1] The 8-year contract guarantees at least one system-wide storage update during the contract period. The 4-year and 8-year contracts are provided with hardware and software assurance upon validity.
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