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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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Product Details

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.

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The most common users of IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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April 15, 2022

IBM Storwize Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Storwize we used in our DR site for AIX and Linux environments servers to maintain the data. IBM Storwize provides an easy user interface and many other key features like disk provision, updates, data security, etc which help to manage this storage in a smooth way.
April 11, 2022

IBM Storewize- Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Storewize is used in our business to store and manage heavy data and applications. This system is very fast and has a good efficiency in this system used in our organization for AI and hybrid cloud storage. This product has many features such as it is scalable and can easily access the data at a lower cost. So this is best for our organization.
February 03, 2022

My Storwize Experience

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Utilizing Storwize allows us to provision our hardware quickly and efficiently. The interface feels familiar while giving you a more detailed view of the different components. From the initial setup to applying new storage to a host or hosts, to optimizing your IOPS by looking over the utilization. Big data, database, or archiving with the larger units, we utilize Storwize throughout many application functions or historical profiles. Small office file shares or medium-sized to large-sized deployments. Mirror your data as this is more and more of a requirement for businesses to run.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Storwize virtualized products to leverage storage efficiency practices to scale our storage to business demands. Data is endlessly growing, and being able to use virtualized products we can somewhat manage growth. We use multiple Storwize V7000 and V5000 devices behind SVC. The SVC allows us to seamlessly move data between storage devices without issues. Specifically, the V7k V5k, and as well as the V9Ks allow us to provision storage and over-allocate storage when workloads are not meeting the requests from the users.
Kenneth Ditmar Hansen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Storwize storage products for fast flash storage access for hosting of customers' data, but also for internal use. Storwize products are in my opinion very easy to use, fast and a reliable storage solution. They are up to date with the newest flash technology, and that gives us an advantage in the industry.
Peter Sachs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Storwize V7000 Gen 3 provides all tiers of SAN storage for our hospital. The cost is reasonable any you can pretty much configure the systems with whatever types of drives, SSD and NVMe media you need.
Rusty Beard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Customers of mine deploy IBM Storwize systems for many different purposes of general information technology storage. Storwize is one of the most flexible and capable block storage devices in IT today, and one of IBM's most successful. It addresses issues of high-speed data storage and combines with software-defined virtualization.
Bill Raines | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I'm with an IBM business partner. The Storwize portfolio targets the majority of clients with a very flexible and simple block storage for most every use case in their business. I think that IBM's product and support wrapped with their Storage Insights in the cloud make this an excellent choice for the first time client as well as loyalty clients. Based on IBM Spectrum Virtualize provides the client peace of mind that IBM has done most of the work for them in proven solutions that clients need to support their older, current and future infrastructure.
Keith Thuerk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The IBM Storwize was originally purchased to consolidate DS5000 workloads. Hence we have refreshed the array and even grown it [to] add in a DR location. The GUI is super easy - even our manager can figure it out in times of need.
April 30, 2019

So far so good

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Storwize is our company's main storage application. We're able to utilize its VTS optimization, and it's as easy and as streamlined as we hoped. Although I haven't been exposed to as many storage resolutions as some, I do appreciate the thought that went behind this product, from a user perspective.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use a v3700 storage as the main storage for the entire company. Thanks to Thin Provisioning and Easy Tier I can look over provision volumes and be sure that my most used data will be on the fastest tier of storage. The performance, even being the smallest of the family, is a great bang for the buck and meets all our needs.
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