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IBM releases solutions to rein data overflow
Tuesday,04 Nov,2008
BANGALORE, INDIA: Taking off from the global concern of skyrocketing data volumes, the perennial lack of physical storage spaces and being sensitive about carbon footprints, IBM today released an array of about 40 solutions, aimed at tackling this data overflow using technologies, which are 'disruptive' in nature.
The flagship offering in today's announcement was the IBM XIV system – a highly scalable disk storage system optimized to handle content from Web 2.0 applications to traditional applications such as financial services. This new enterprise disk offering features a unique grid-based architecture that offers easier management, greater performance scalability, self-tuning/healing and thin provisioning to help reduce the cost and complexity of information storage while enabling consistently quick access of data for today's dynamic range of workloads.
