Reliability is a critical feature of any enterprise storage system. Today’s enterprise-class reliability requirements translate to total avoidance of data loss. Data loss can have a crippling effect on any organization, causing lengthy and complicated restore processes, performance degradation, and application downtime, ultimately having a negative impact on financial performance.

Another aspect of enterprise-class storage is availability - the quality of providing non-stop service to enable applications to be continuously operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In virtually every industry and across all sizes of companies, application downtime translates to lost revenues.

While many vendors promote their products as highly reliable and available, most do not deliver to true enterprise-class standards. Additionally, while many leading enterprise-class storage products allow for continuous availability of data, they do so at a significant performance penalty.

The IBM XIV Storage System delivers a new standard of reliability and availability for enterprise-class storage systems.