New Benchmark Results Crown IBM Storage Virtualization the Highest Performing Solution in the World

New Benchmark Results Crown IBM Storage Virtualization the Highest Performing Solution in the World

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its flagship storage virtualization solution has achieved benchmark results through the Storage Performance Council (SPC), demonstrating that it is the highest performing storage virtualization solution in the world today — with speeds over 75 percent above its predecessor.

The result of over four years of relentless innovation, IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) storage virtualization solution allows for customers to achieve dramatic reductions in energy consumption while performance levels in the data center achieve all-time highs. It was four years ago this week that IBM first launch SAN Volume Controller.

IBM’s storage virtualization unlocks the proprietary hold that vendors such as EMC, HP and Hitachi have had on customers for years. With IBM SVC, customers can choose any combination of supported EMC, IBM, HP or Hitachi devices, virtualize them, and manage and deploy them easily and with greater flexibility than ever before.

Virtualization technologies help cusotmers consolidate work onto fewer servers, reduce energy and maintenance bills and simplify IT infrastructures. By increasing utilization of storage through the use of SVC, customers can significantly increase energy savings. Today, many businesses use just 30 to 50 percent of their available storage capacity, but a recent study of SVC customers by Forrester Consulting [1] found that SVC can help improve storage utilization by as much as 30 percent and helps reduce storage growth by as much as 20 percent.

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