IBM advances storage computing

IBM has upgraded its storage and technical computing systems to suit the requirements of Big Data and help customers to tackle Big Data. As part of its ongoing smarter computing effort, IBM today announced a new strategic approach to designing and managing storage infrastructures with greater automation and intelligence. These offerings will help enterprise customers to use technical computing to achieve faster results with applications that require substantial computing resources to process growing volumes of data. “Enterprises are dealing with data that is increasing exponentially in both size and complexity,” said Rodney Adkins, senior vice president of IBM Systems and Technology Group. He added, “The enhanced systems and storage solutions we're announcing today have the performance, efficiency and intelligence to handle this Big Data. This is smarter computing that allows our clients to organize and analyze their data to better understand and serve their customers.” To drive this initiative further, IBM is announcing enhancements to a several key products. It is adding Real-time Compression to IBM Storwize V7000, as well as to the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC), said a release. In addition to Real-time Compression, IBM also added four-way clustering support for Storwize V7000 block systems that can double the maximum system capacity to 960 drives or 1.4 petabytes. IBM also plans to support non-IBM systems with existing Platform Computing partners.