IBM Storwize Family Software for SVC V7.1.0

IBM Storwize Family Software for SVC Software helps customers with existing SANs reduce the complexities and cost of managing their SAN-based storage.

SVC is designed to:

• Centralize management of storage volumes, enabling administrators to manage storage volumes from a single point
• Improve utilization of storage capacity, enabling businesses to tap into previously unused disk capacity
• Avoid downtime for backups, maintenance, and upgrades
• Support data migration without disruption to applications
• Enable virtualized storage volumes to be managed as a single pool of storage
• Enable a single set of advanced services to be used across multiple storage devices, including Easy Tier , thin provisioning, real-time compression, and copy services

Storwize Family Software for SVC version 7 includes enhancements to provide greater scalability to grow with customer’s growing environments, enhancements to Real-time Compression and EasyTier to provide greater efficiency, additional connectivity options to enhance availability and data flow control, and new pricing tiers.

Planned availability date
June 14, 2013