IBM XIV® Storage System: Ideal Storage for the New Media Era

The last decade has seen a revolution in the way in which digital information is generated and organized. The IBM XIV® Storage System provides a revolutionary solution for these requirements, in that it combines unlimited scalability and unprecedented ease of management with groundbreaking TCO. We investigate here the requirements of the new applications so as to understand why they are different from traditional requirements and how current storage architectures fall short of their needs.