14 DAY TRIAL // IBM has recently announced that it has brought a series of new enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3, including support for a new solid state drive (SSD) caching option, that is said to increase system performance by up to three times.
According to IBM, going for the IBM XIV SSD Caching option adds up to 6TB of fast-read SSD storage to its systems, which is placed between the system memory and hard drives.
This is then used as a fast cache for the most frequently accessed data, thus dramatically decreasing latency times when compared to mechanical storage.
"These latest updates to XIV Gen3 are a great example of IBM's continued commitment to helping customers achieve business outcomes through smarter storage technologies," said Doug Balog, vice president and business line executive for IBM Storage Systems.
"It comes down to saving customers time and money with extremely efficient, easily managed, virtualized, and high-performing storage systems like XIV Gen3," concluded the company’s rep.
In addition to IBM XIV SSD Caching, IBM announced the ability to mirror data between previous versions of XIV and XIV Gen3 systems, which will ease data migration and help give customers flexibility to repurpose their XIV models as disaster recovery backup systems.
The XIV Storage System Gen3 was introduced by IBM in the middle of last year as a new generation of storage solutions designed to lower the total cost of ownership, and improve system performance by four times over the previous model.
With XIV Gen3, IBM also replaced the system's Ethernet-based backplane with a high-performance InfiniBand backplane, that increased the system's internal bandwidth between modules by 40 times.
The XIV Storage System Gen3, together with its SSD Caching option, is available right now from IBM, with pricing being provided upon request.