New Pricing for IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
Entry v5.2 and for Storwize family v5.2
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 4, 2014 at 3:03 pmIBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Entry V5.2 and SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center for Storwize Family V5.2 are available with pricing for use in smaller virtualized storage configurations.
SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Entry V5.2 can be used in conjunction with two or fewer SAN Volume Controller (SVC) I/O groups, thereby consisting of up to four machine type 2145 hardware engines, for up to 250 TB of managed capacity.
SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center for Storwize Family V5.2 can be used in conjunction with Storwize family hardware engines providing the storage virtualization, such as a Storwize V7000 control enclosure, with no restrictions on the quantity of I/O groups.
All of the same functions in the existing SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center V5.2 offering are available to clients ordering SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Entry V5.2 or SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center for Storwize Family V5.2.
A Solutions Assurance Review is recommended with each deployment of the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Entry or SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center for Storwize Family.
Planned availability date
- February 28, 2014: Electronic version
- April 4, 2014: Physical version