IBM Storage N Series - Overview

IBM Storage N series

OS :
operating system (Data ONTAP) across the entire platform, and offer a combination of multiple advanced function software features that provide one of the industry’s most multifaceted storage platforms, including comprehensive system management, storage management, onboard copy services, virtualization technologies, and disaster recovery and backup solutions.

Capabilities:
Network File System (NFS),
Common Internet File System (CIFS),
HTTP, FTP and iSCSI,
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)

Model:
N Series - Appliance model and gateway model
*Gateway model backend can be any storage
*Appliance model will be integrated with IBM

Solutions:
(1) Heterogeneous unified storage solution-Unified access for multiprotocol storage environments.
(2) Versatile-single integrated architecture designed to support concurrent block I/O and file servicing over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures.
(3) Comprehensive software suite designed to provide robust system management, copy services, and virtualization technologies.
(4) Tune the storage environment to a specific application while maintaining flexibility to increase, decrease, or change access methods with minimal disruption.
(5) Ease of changing storage requirements, and providing quick reactions. If additional storage is required, you can expand it quickly and non-disruptively. If existing storage is deployed incorrectly, you have the capability to reallocate available storage from one application to another quickly and easily.
(6) Maintain availability and productivity during upgrades. If outages are necessary, they can be kept to the shortest time possible.
(7) Easily and quickly implement the upgrade process. Non-disruptive upgrade is possible.
(8) Create effortless backup and recovery solutions that operate in a common manner across all data access methods.
(9) Tune the storage environment to a specific application while maintaining its availability and flexibility.
(10) Change the deployment of storage resources non-disruptively, easily, and quickly. Online storage resource redeployment is possible.
(11) Achieve strong data protection solutions with support for online backup and recovery.
(12) Include added value features such as deduplication to optimize space management.