Reinventing Enterprise Storage

For financial markets firms, storing the massive amounts of data they need is expensive and requires a great deal of electrical power. IBM�s XIV Storage Solution addresses those storage challenges by leveraging grid architecture in an innovative way. Grid computing allows the standard legacy storage controller to share intelligence and computing power with less expensive, off-the-shelf drives, reducing hardware costs and enabling firms to reap the benefits of a bigger, hotter and more expensive storage model. By applying grid computing to storage solutions, IBM has dramatically decreased power requirements while increasing speed and maintaining reliability. XIV Storage Solution is also simple to set up and easy to use, says Steve Solewin, XIV Storage Solutions Architect for IBM Systems and Technology.