IBM Storwize V7000
The new IBM Storwize V7000 midrange storage system demonstrates that IBM is sharing its most innovative storage technologies across its portfolio, including a GUI modeled after the popular XIV user interface designed to significantly reduce system set up and administration.
The world's first computer storage system, the IBM "RAMAC", took up an entire room and could store 20 megabytes of data in 1956 - roughly the equivalent of one song stored on an MP3 player. IBM's newest storage system, the Storwize V7000, can hold more than one million times more data than the RAMAC in a package that fits on a desktop.
Social networking sites, digital photography/video, and online commerce are among the activities causing huge increases in the amount of data that needs to be filled, sifted, and managed by businesses today. IBM storage inventions can allow businesses to categorize information in new ways, allowing for electronic medical records, for example, to be delivered to patients in minutes rather than days.
Read the October 7th "Clipper Group Navigator": IBM Brings Enterprise Functionality to Mid-Range Storage.