IBM has extended its midrange storage family with the introduction of a new four gigabit per second storage system, the IBM TotalStorage DS4800, which is one of the fastest midrange disk systems in the market today. In performance benchmark and testing developed by the Storage Performance Council, the DS4800 set a new standard for midrange storage server performance delivering a maximum of more than 42,000 SPC-1 IOPS. The DS4800 achieved these breakthrough performance metrics with its high-performance architecture incorporating four gigabit per second technology.
The IBM DS4800 offers scalability designed to support up to 67 terabytes of data. It is also designed to provide data failover software, availability and integrity features, all managed through an easy to use graphical user interface (GUI). The DS4800 will also support the recently announced integrated backup for databases with the AIX operating environment and IBM DB2 Universal Database. Other unique features include a “call home” function to help provide alerts if there is a problem with the system, long battery life to help provide increased uptime in the event of an outage, a second Ethernet port so diagnostics can be conducted and a switched expansion drawer to allow for easy scalability.