IBM System Storage N6040 Specification Sheet

Expanding the possibilities for your business with a storage system
IBM System Storage N6000 series
■ Meet diverse and changing
needs. Consolidate diverse
data sets onto a unified storage
platform that provides simulta­
neous block and file services
for business and technical
applications.
■ Perform when your applications
need it most. Outstanding file-
based and transaction-based
performance with high band­
width, 64-bit architecture, and
the latest I/O technologies.
■ Respond to growth. Thin provi­
sioning helps you eliminate
stranded storage. Preserve
investments in staff expertise
and capital equipment with
data-in-place upgrades to more
powerful N series systems while
running the same OS and using
the same management tools.
Highlights
■ Maximize your resources.
Highly efficient storage utiliza­
tion makes it possible for you
to dramatically reduce your
consumption of raw storage,
power, cooling, and space.
■ Improve your business effi­
ciency. Clients with different
storage subsystems in their
SAN environments can now
take advantage of the N6000
series Gateway capabilities to
help improve business effi­
ciency and reduce data
management complexity.
Today's business environment demands
innovation and increasingly flawless
execution. You are asked to manage
and protect valuable data to enable
business growth and success. Change
can be continuous and your IT opera­
tions have to evolve while adhering to
hard limits on budget, staffing, and
infrastructure. Virtualized computing,
the latest wave of change, is quickly
becoming the norm. It calls for net­
worked storage systems that you can
use to consolidate diverse data sets
and unlock the full potential of virtual­
ized servers.
Now you can simultaneously meet your
diverse needs—SAN and NAS, primary
and secondary storage—and provide
high levels of application availability for
your critical business operations to
technical applications. With IBM N6000
series systems, you get outstanding
value: our flexible systems offer excel­
lent performance and impressive scala­
bility at a low total cost of ownership.