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“IBM is the worldwide storage service market share leader.”
– MarketScope for Storage Services, North America study by Gartner RAS Core Research
The IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage (RAS) solution combines the latest technology, powerful management software, and world-class services to help you manage your business applications and better handle the information explosion.
What does the IBM Storwize RAS solution offer?
Increased application performance
- Improves application throughput up to 3 times
- Improves response time 60% with Easy Tier
- Meet or exceed application performance levels with hot spot analytics
Increased application availability
- Experience easy integration with existing applications: SAP, Microsoft Exchange, IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server
- Minimize application downtime with online data migration
- Reduce application downtime required for backup to seconds
- Improve data protection by 95% with hourly snapshots
Increased storage utilization
- Improve disk utilization by up to 30% with thin provisioning and virtualization
- Reduce the amount of storage required for snapshots by 75% or more
Improved storage administrator productivity
- Improve administrator productivity up to 2 times with easy to use GUI and virtualization
- Real-time performance monitoring improves performance analysis time
Significantly reduced implementation time
- Cut implementation time in half
- Little to no impact on storage administrator staff
The IBM Storwize RAS solution does all this and more, while helping your organization quickly control storage costs. How much could you save?
The IBM Storwize V7000 Rapid Application Storage solution includes:
- IBM Storwize V7000
- Tivoli FlashCopy Manager
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
- 3-year maintenance on hardware and software
- Storage implementation services


