IBM FlashSystem 840 Enhancements

Global organizations depend upon the ability to unlock business insights from massive volumes of data and they need to be able to do it faster than the competition. By eliminating storage bottlenecks, flash technology has redefined the performance, efficiency, and reliability of data-intensive applications.

IBM FlashSystem enhancements deliver flash technology within the datacenter to solve critical client pain points.

IBM has enhanced the flexibility of the FlashSystem 840 with new, more granular capacity offerings starting as low as 2TB, providing an attractive entry point so users you can start with smaller, application-specific flash deployments and scale up to tier 1 disk replacement as business needs grow. It is also cloud-optimized with support for 10GbE iSCSI interfaces, allowing private cloud environments and MSPs to take advantage of high-performance storage inside existing Ethernet-based infrastructures.

FlashSystem 840 enhancements enable flexibility, scalability,
and investment protection while providing the following capabilities:

Interface types including FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and IB to integrate into existing SAN environments
Up to 16 ports of 8Gb or eight ports of 16Gb FC interface support for SAN throughput
Up to 16 ports of 10GbE FCoE support for clients looking for I/O consolidation
Up to 16 ports of 10GbE iSCSI for clients looking for alternatives to SANs
Up to eight ports 40Gb QDR IB
RAID-0 and RAID-5 configurations for reliability that suits client needs
Enterprise, two-dimensional flash RAID technology comprised of Variable Stripe RAID and RAID-5 technologies
Configurable usable capacity from 2TB to 48TB for increased flexibility for incremental capacity and performance growth to match increased requirements
AES XTS 256 data-at-rest-encryption for applications needing to safeguard valuable data
Continuous availability architecture with front accessible hot-swap flash modules and concurrent code load and maintenance
2U form factor