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IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)

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What is IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)?

IBM Storwize is a family of recognized all-flash and hybrid storage solutions designed to support the virtualization needs and application workloads of mid-sized enterprises.

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What is IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)?

IBM Storwize is a family of recognized all-flash and hybrid storage solutions designed to support the virtualization needs and application workloads of mid-sized enterprises.

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What is IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems)?

The IBM Storwize family, now part of the FlashSystems family, is designed to meet the storage requirements of businesses with entry to mid-sized application workloads who need all the features and capabilities demanded in business-critical environments but within constrained budgets. Members of the Storwize family deliver hybrid flash capability at a low entry price whereas others offer high performance end-to-end NVMe including NVMe flash drives and support for NVMe over Fibre Channel fabrics. Many Storwize systems include unique IBM FlashCore Modules with ultra-low latency, and compression and FIPS 140-2 encryption, delivered without impact to performance.

Offered in a wide range of storage systems, the IBM Storwize family delivers sophisticated capabilities that are easy to deploy and easy to manage thanks to its IBM Spectrum Virtualize software. These capabilities include non-disruptive data migration from existing storage, comprehensive data reduction to help reduce costs, six-nines availability to meet the most demanding business needs, easy scalability, and hybrid cloud capability when used with IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud. All Storwize systems are enhanced with cloud-based IBM Storage Insights that helps monitor health, status, and performance, and offers proactive recommendations. When problems occur, Storage Insights helps streamline obtaining support.

IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Features

  • Supported: Get faster insights with NVMe acceleration
  • Supported: Improve your business agility with enterprise-class storage capability
  • Supported: Transform the economics of data storage using data reduction technologies
  • Supported: Leverage AI to optimize configurations and streamline issue resolution
  • Supported: Complement on-premises storage of all types with hybrid multicloud capability

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IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Storwize is a family of recognized all-flash and hybrid storage solutions designed to support the virtualization needs and application workloads of mid-sized enterprises.

Dell Unity XT Unified Storage, HPE Nimble Storage, and HPE 3PAR StoreServ are common alternatives for IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems).

The most common users of IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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April 15, 2022

IBM Storwize Review

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Bhawani Shankar Satapathy
AIX Administrator
DXC Technology Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Storwize is good storage to manage the different environment work and different applications/databases. This storage provides an excellent data backup solution and DR site. This storage is not capable to manage the huge data transaction.
April 11, 2022

IBM Storewize- Review

MK
Mushtaqu Khan
Regional Business Manager
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd (Pharmaceuticals, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Storewize is widely used in organizations for on-premises with a lot of facilities that are given by this IBM Storewize. Data accessibility is very good and fast in this system. This system is available with different data services such as scalability and flexibility in data even providing security to our data.
February 21, 2022

IBM Storwize - Cost Effective

DB
Debopriya Bhattacharya
AIX Administrator
Kyndryl Solution Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Storwize is well suitable for hybrid environments and file servers ,backup etc. Its not recommended for that kind of projects in which heavy transection are happen. Its has great capacity, low speed use case.
February 03, 2022

My Storwize Experience

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This stuff runs! Hot, cold not wet, but you know where your data is. Reliably in the cabinet turning your data for the next customer request. You need dedupe, get the flash drive models. Long archives with spinning disks can help with all the data modeling the analysts do. Keep up with the dba’s constant need for speed with all-flash! You will get what you pay for.
May 16, 2019

Storwize - High-Capacity Storage at a Manageable Price Point

TC
Tom Corrado
Storage Specialist
Vicom Infinity (Computer Hardware, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Storwize is an excellent backup solution that works very well for us. It is great for high capacity, low speed use cases. It would be less appropriate for production systems or applications requiring the lowest response time.
May 13, 2019

Large savings for midsize workloads

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Storwize has been well suited in environments where users have requested more storage than they need. Using thin provisioning techniques we have eliminated the need for multiple storage purchases. In our industry, we have users request storage more than they need. A user may request a 2 TB volume, but only use 900GB of the 2TB. Storwize is well suited for these type of scenarios because it can manage to provide the user with the 2TB allocation, but only physically be using the 990GB that is in use, allowing for us to allocate additional storage for other users.
May 13, 2019

IBM Storwize, IBM's resilient product

FG
fredy garcia
Presale
Redeban (Banking, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
A scenario where IBM Storwize is suitable is when we have hybrid environments such as databases, virtual machines, and file servers. With IBM Spectrum Virtualize software integration, we can take full advantage of the advantages offered by compression, deduplication, storage pool balancing, and data reduction pools among other interesting features that allow us to save considerable space and performance.

A scenario where IBM Storwize is not very suitable is when we have many transactions or a very high level of IOPS. In this case, it is better to consider an IBM Flash type storage with micro-latency.
May 02, 2019

I love how easy IBM Storwize is in my daily job

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Kenneth Ditmar Hansen
Senior Storage Specialist
Atea Danmark (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
  • Mid-range storage for all around storage, and can fit in all storage departments, easy to work with, and provides newest flash technology in an easy way.
  • Good for mid size environments, and for all workloads it's easy to design the right solution.
  • IBM is a well known brand and provides a good bang for the buck.
April 30, 2019

So far so good

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Storwize is well suited for our VTS resolution, with its ease of use, and its fast and reliable software. IBM Storwize is not the best suited for our physical tape resolution.
April 30, 2019

A review of the v3700 in a small company.

RE
Roberto Etcheverry
Solution Architect
ROER International SA (Computer Hardware, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Storwize products are well suited to most scenarios, it's features adapt to most workloads seamlessly. Only if one needs the least latency between data and the server and is willing to forego all the features the Storwize stack brings, just in that case something like the FS900 might be better suited.
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