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What is IBM Storage FlashSystem?
IBM's FlashSystem is a flash array storage option.
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Easy , Fast , high performance storage for high demand IO applications
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Easy to handle, scalable and performance driven platform for various use cases.
IBM Storage FlashSystem is a soldi product at a great pricepoint for SMB high end storage needs.
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Pretty small and powerful storage unit - But take care of your wallet!
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.
- 9.1Flash Array Performance(113) Ratings
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
- 8.5Flash Array Integration(114) Ratings
Integration with hypervisors and applications
- 8.4Data Compression(112) Ratings
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
- 8.4Non-Intrusive Upgrades(108) Ratings
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
- 8.5Simplicity(115) Ratings
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
- 8.3Power Savings(111) Ratings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
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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
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Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish |
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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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(1-25 of 126)Easy , Fast , high performance storage for high demand IO applications
- 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
- 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
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- 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
IBM flash systems are a must for your enterprise.
- Data reduction.
- Compression
- Metro mirror.
IBM Storage FlashSystem - Modern file storage for education
- Size of the unit
- File Access Speed
- Immutable file storage
IBM Storage FlashSystem best price performance storage for Open Systems & IBM I Storage
- Best NVMe performance
- Immutability
- Inline Data corruption protection
- Ease of Use
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- High Availabilty
- Replication
- Scalability
- Compression
Real ultra-low latency storage for everyone
- Ultra low latency for best performance and improve productivity
- Wide portfolio options for different customer sizes
- Advanced virtualisation for good scalability
- Safeguarded snapshot creation
The perfect entry level hybrid storage: IBM FlashSystem
- Centralized storage
- Cloud capabilities
- Efficient
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- Easy access
- Easy to use hardware
- low maintenance
Easy to handle, scalable and performance driven platform for various use cases.
- Performance
- Ease of use.
- Scalability
IBM Storage FlashSystem is a soldi product at a great pricepoint for SMB high end storage needs.
- Low latency
- Storage DRS is supported
- Ease of expansion
Reliable and cost effective Flash of IBM
- 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
- 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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- Expandable
- Fast.
- Small.
IBM Storage FlashSystem use it to believe it.
- Fast
- Easy to manage
- Easy to deploy & configure
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- Scheduled snapshot
- Ease of use GUI
- Safeguarded snapshot creation
high-performance system over fibre channel.
- Getting over a tragedy.
- Data replication and migration.
Best for midsize workloads
- DRP Compression and deduplication
- Replication across sites
- Flashcopies
- Great performance
Over fibre channel, high-performance system
- Recovering from a disaster
- Replication and migration of data
The services provided by IBM FlashSystem 5000 were outstanding.
- Every critical application maintains a high level of performance.
- The transfer of assets is fantastic.
IBM FlashSystem 5000--the services have been excellent
- It keeps an elevated degree of execution for every single key application
- Asset conveyance is brilliant
It's Reliable and Easy to Use
- Reconstruction after a disaster
Deliver the greatest storage options as well as a high level of performance.
- Performing at a high rate.
- It has compression and replication capabilities.
One of the best and low end flash machine that one can rely upon
- It's perfection
- The pace at it works
- Product performance is very high