IBM RAID FlashSystem 840 With 4TB to 48TB in 2U

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 flash storage offerings are designed to provide IO/s performance in a power-efficient footprint.

IBM FlashSystem 840 is designed to provide scalable performance for demanding enterprise applications, including virtualized or bare-metal OLTP and OLAP databases, VDIs, technical computing applications, and cloud environments.

The system can help accelerate response times with MicroLatency to enable faster decision making FlashSystem 840 can either augment or replace traditional HDD storage systems to empower applications to work faster and scale further.

Following FlashSystem 840 features can improve flexibility, scalability, and investment protection:

• Flexible interface types of FC, FCoE, and IB
• Up to sixteen ports of 8Gb or eight ports of 16Gb FC interface support for superior SAN throughput
• Up to sixteen ports of 10Gb FCoE support for I/O consolidation
• Up to eight ports 40Gb QDR IB
• RAID-0 and RAID-5 configurations for reliability that suits varying needs
• Configurable from 4TB to 48TB of usable capacity for flexibility
• AES XTS 256 data-at-rest encryption for applications needing to safeguard valuable data
• Always-on architecture with front accessible, hot-swap flash modules
• Energy-efficient 2U form factor

FlashSystem 840 supports FC, FCoE, and IB attachment
to following servers:

• System x servers
• Power Systems servers
• Flex System
• BladeCenter
• Power System blades
• Intel and AMD processor-based servers