IBM FlashSystem5300: Resilient storage for enterprise workloads – Business
As enterprise workloads surge, driven by Moore’s law accelerating processor advancements, the demand for resilient storage solutions intensifies. To maintain sustained competitiveness, businesses require storage systems that can keep pace with the rapid expansion of computing capabilities.
IBM Corp. is answering on the storage front with several new offerings, one of which is FlashSystem 5300. The platform has been redesigned for improved performance, efficiency and data resilience, according to Jim Comstock (pictured), product manager of IBM FlashSystem at IBM.
“[It has] high sequential throughput performance; you combine that with our data resilience capability with FCM4 Ransomware Threat Detection and our ability to detect and recover from threats fast, which is important,” he said. “I hear a lot of people talk about cyber resiliency and protecting data, but IBM is leading the way in looking at IOs as they come in and detecting changes.”
IBM’s watch party from Atlanta checked in during the event.
Comstock spoke with theCUBE Research executive analyst John Furrier and chief analyst Dave Vellante at IBM’s “Future-Ready Storage Redefining Data Center Boundaries” event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed FlashSystem 5300 and its potential to propel storage innovation, combining high performance, data resilience and AI-driven capabilities to meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises. (* Disclosure below.)
FlashSystem 5300: Technical specs and security upgrades
FlashSystem 5300 builds upon the success of its predecessor, the 5200, offering enhanced performance, density and resilience in a compact 1U form factor, according to Comstock. Operating at 400 IOPS per second and up to a petabyte of storage in a single unit, it has been future-proofed to meet the demands of modern workloads.
“When you’re going from FS5200 to the FS5300, you’re going to get a boost in performance from where we were with the 5200,” Comstock said. “We’ve also introduced, since the 5200, threat detection built-in. So, there’s another added level of security and data resilience built-in.”
One key feature is Flash Grid, a new approach to data replication and management. Flash Grid enables the creation of a federation of independent systems, enhancing operational capabilities while simplifying management across multiple environments, Comstock explained.
“We’ve been on this journey around replication over the last couple of years, and we started with policy-based replication, synchronous replication that was tied to leveraging policies to simplify the operational aspect,” he said.
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of IBM’s “Future-Ready Storage Redefining Data Center Boundaries” event:
(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for IBM’s “Future-Ready Storage Redefining Data Center Boundaries” event. Neither IBM Corp., .)