IBM FlashSystem 5000 and 5200 for Mid-Market

The IBM® FlashSystem® 5015, 5035, and 5200 help you meet the challenges of rapid data

growth while staying within limited IT budgets.

These systems allow you to quickly consolidate, simplify, and optimize your IT infrastructure

with an efficient, highly flexible, yet easy-to-use storage system with powerful virtualization

features.

This IBM Redpaper™ publication is intended for mid-market clients.

Product Details

Advanced capabilities

IBM FlashSystem 5015. 5035, and 5200 deliver advanced capabilities. Designed to provide

organizations with the ability to consolidate and share data at an affordable price, these

systems offer advanced enterprise software capabilities that until now were found only in

more expensive systems. Consider the following points:

IBM FlashSystem 5015, 5035, and 5200 are software-defined storage systems that are

built with IBM Spectrum® Virtualize software and designed to consolidate workloads into a

single storage system for ease of management and use. These systems reduce costs,

and feature highly scalable capacity, high performance, and availability.

IBM FlashSystem 5015 and 5035 offer the performance, functionality, and cost-efficiency

that is demanded by entry and midrange workloads.

The FlashSystem 5035 adds CPU power and other enterprise features, such as data

reduction, high availability configurations, and data-at-rest encryption. Hosts can attach by

using SAS, 16 Gb Fibre Channel, or iSCSI.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 provides greater functionality, including end-to-end

NVMe-accelerated performance, IBM FlashCore® Module technology unique and

Storage-Class Memory (SCM) drives for ultra-low latency.

All of these systems support concurrent migration from your existing storage. In addition,

FlashSystem 5200 supports external storage virtualization for over 500 storage systems

from IBM and others, which enables storage consolidation and simplification through

improved cross-system consistency.

These affordable storage solutions offer a wide range of enterprise-grade features that can

easily evolve as your business grows. Reliable and fast data access is critical for running your

business. Whatever the application, your data must be available, secure, and flexible for fast

analysis and processing.