IBM® has had a long and productive history with FlashSystem and SAN Volume Controller (SVC) storage solutions. Customers have benefited greatly from the highend performance and advanced functionality that come with IBM storage hardware and Spectrum Virtualize storage software.

Recently, IBM refreshed the FlashSystem family to include entry-level and midrange solutions suitable for any enterprise environment. IBM has also enhanced FlashSystem mid-range and high-end enterprise products with better performance and new storage media. In addition, IBM has introduced new higher performing and lower cost SAN Volume Controller engine hardware. With the new FlashSystem family and SVC engines IBM has made storage simple to acquire, manage, use the multi-cloud/hybrid cloud, support high data availability, and provide cyber security resiliency.

In this guide, we will highlight the features of these enterprise storage solutions to demonstrate how IBM has simplified its portfolio as well as why these systems are the lowest cost and highest performing storage options on the market today.