IBM announces IBM System Storage^TM Easy Tier solid-state storage

The IBM System Storage^TM DS8700 is the most advanced enterprise storage system in the industry's most extensive storage portfolio and is designed to support the most demanding business applications with its superior performance, resiliency, scalability, security and value.

New IBM System Storage Easy Tier

The latest DS8700 release offers the new IBM System Storage Easy Tier feature that enables clients to deploy solid-state storage confidently, effectively and economically by automatically and dynamically moving only the appropriate data to the SSDs in the system, based on ongoing performance monitoring. Such effective storage tiering will help clients enjoy the performance benefits of SSDs without requiring administrators to create and manage storage tier policies and without the excessive costs associated with placing too much of the wrong data on these relatively expensive drives. Easy Tier also includes the ability to manually and non-disruptively relocate full logical volumes around the system, which provides additional flexibility and control for clients looking to more effectively align system performance with their application needs. As a no-charge feature, Easy Tier makes it easy and economical to deploy SSDs in your environment.