IBM unveils enterprise-class storage systems

IBM Corp. has unveiled new unified primary and secondary storage offerings for the enterprise-class performance at an entry-level price point.

The IBM System Storage N3000 series systems, the N3300 and N3600, are designed to specifically help small and mid-sized customers centralise their storage in remote and branch offices, as well as increase performance and scalability by helping to consolidate fragmented application based storage in a single, easy to use infrastructure.

The systems provide high availability, backup and recovery features, including simple replication and disaster recovery designed to provide easy-to-deploy mirroring solutions that are tolerant of WAN interruptions. The single, integrated architecture is versatile, supporting current block I/O and file serving over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures and SAS drive support.

The N3300 has a maximum physical capacity of 24.6Tbytes and the N3600 scales up to 69Tbytes by supporting up to 104 disk drives. The N3000 Series is compatible with the entire family of N series unified storage systems, which feature a comprehensive line-up of hardware and software designed to address a variety of possible deployment environments—including IBM's recently introduced DS3000 and DS4000 lines.

The N3000 Series is currently available at Rs.6.88 lakh ($17,000) for the N3300 and Rs.8.90 lakh ($22,000) for the N3600.