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IBM Storage FlashSystem

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What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?

IBM's FlashSystem is a flash array storage option.

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IBM FlashSystem Cyber Resilience Experience

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Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.

8.5
Avg 9.1
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Product Details

What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?

IBM FlashSystem is an all-flash storage portfolio that promises the following benefits and capabilities:

Engineered to meet modern high-performance application requirements

Ultra-low latency, cost-effectiveness, operational efficiency, and mission-critical reliability are built in to every all-flash storage solution and all-flash array


A comprehensive all-flash storage portfolio

IBM is able to deliver all-flash solutions tailored to the user's storage environments and workloads. IBM financing and payment options are available.


Technology supported by guarantees

IBM states they guaratee endurance, performance and compression are guaranteed, and they offer extended support and maintenance

IBM Storage FlashSystem Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage Features

  • Supported: Flash Array Performance
  • Supported: Flash Array Integration
  • Supported: Data Compression
  • Supported: Non-Intrusive Upgrades
  • Supported: Simplicity
  • Supported: Power Savings

IBM Storage FlashSystem Screenshots

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What is Computational Storage?

IBM Storage FlashSystem Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish

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Frequently Asked Questions

IBM's FlashSystem is a flash array storage option.

HPE Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray, and Dell PowerMax NVMe are common alternatives for IBM Storage FlashSystem.

Reviewers rate Flash Array Performance highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of IBM Storage FlashSystem are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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High Performance: Users have consistently praised the system for its ultra-low latency, which has significantly enhanced overall performance and productivity. The fast and responsive read and write times contribute to a seamless user experience.

Wide Portfolio of Options: Reviewers appreciate the extensive range of options offered by the system, catering to various customer sizes and providing scalability and flexibility. The diverse selection allows users to tailor their storage solutions according to their specific needs.

Efficient Centralized Storage: The centralized storage solution is widely acknowledged for its efficiency and ease of management by users. Its space-saving footprint, along with efficient data replication and migration capabilities, make it a valuable asset for secure data management.

Need for Improved User Interface: Users have expressed the need for an enhanced user interface to improve their overall experience with the product, such as a more intuitive design and easier navigation. For example, a cleaner layout could help users locate features more quickly. Upgrade and Patch Processes: Customers have suggested smoother upgrade and patch processes to streamline operations more effectively, reducing downtime during updates. This could involve automated update notifications or a simplified process for applying patches. Limitations in Storage Expansion Functionality: Some users have highlighted limitations in storage expansion functionality, indicating a desire for more flexibility when upgrading storage capacity, like support for additional storage options or easier scalability. Providing seamless integration with third-party storage solutions may address this concern.

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Easy , Fast , high performance storage for high demand IO applications

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 13, 2024
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Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
7 years of experience
  • The read and write times on these devices are extremely fast and responsive
  • The IOPS are achieved easily for the applications that have high requirement
  • The expansion and scaling down of pools are quite easy as well

IBM Flash Storage Reliability

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 24, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
1 year of experience
  • it better encrypt data stored on the databases
  • It works well with the NetBackup appliance
  • Flash storage backup of data is very fast esp. the Power 9 we acquired

The Best of the Storage Systems Is IBM

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 23, 2024
pa
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
5 years of experience
  • Data protection is top notch
  • IBM FlashSystem will not allow upgrade to complete when any of it pre-checks fails. this is one great feature that has saved us
  • It also manages CPU and memory utilizations very well. The team receives report and notification when I/O is high

Real ultra-low latency storage for everyone

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 02, 2023
BS
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
2 years of experience
  • Ultra low latency for best performance and improve productivity
  • Wide portfolio options for different customer sizes
  • Advanced virtualisation for good scalability
  • Safeguarded snapshot creation

Reliable and cost effective Flash of IBM

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage FlashSystem
2 years of experience
  • Performance is the crucial element to be highlighted, as it delivers the best in class industry performance.
  • Guaranteed compression ratio, one of the leading in [the] industry we got a 2:1 guaranteed and it achieved as per the commitment.
  • Reliability is one of the main elements which works really well, even being a storewide family product it delivers [the] best reliability features.
  • [The] footprint is key, as it helped us to reduce our organization's 2 racks storage capacity into a 2U rack space.

I blindly trust IBM

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 11, 2023
  • Cyber resilience with the new functionality of immutable copies called sfaguarded copies
  • With the IBM FlashCore modules it allows us to have good levels of online compression of the information, besides that it is a hardware compression that would not affect the performance of the equipment
  • the virtualization of other storages that can be IBM or other brands
  • binary replication works great
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