Acquisition Costs - IBM XIV STORAGE SYSTEM Supplementary Manual

Optimizing enterprise storage total cost of ownership

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Figure 3: Overall TCO: Traditional Tier-1 storage vs. XIV storage

Acquisition Costs

The IBM XIV Storage System is designed to be cost-efficient in all aspects, while

delivering outstanding and consistent performance. The XIV system's:

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Single-tier architecture supports all kinds of storage in one environment and

makes scaling easy

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Use of off-the-shelf components makes customized hardware unnecessary and

makes it possible to integrate newer, state-of-the-art hardware as soon as it

becomes available and without delay

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Innovative use of highly economical disk drives [Very High Density Slower

Rotation (VHDSR) drives] offers excellent capacity-for-cost value while meeting

enterprise performance standards

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Built-in thin-provisioning allows the acquisition and installation of additional

capacity to be delayed until needed, making it possible to defer capital purchases

and take full advantage of future hardware and price-point improvements not

currently available

TCO Reinvented

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