IBM System Storage DS8900F vs. SwiftStack (discontinued)

It's a qualified 10. If it's a mainframe environment I wouldn't think twice. An open systems environment I would ask many questions to make sure that it's not going to be a bad decision. The open systems environments would need to have requirements to drive the DS8000. It would work for any environment in the interop matrix, but I'd just want to make sure that it's the right fit.

Incentivized

• Allows us to use GDPS for our disaster recovery solution. This is a strength because it enables us to meet our DR requirements.
• Allows us to have encryption of our data at rest. This is a strength because it enables us to meet our security requirements.
• Allows us to have a stable and reliable disk storage. This is a strength because it enables us to meet our data availability requirements.

Incentivized

• I have seen the GUI say that the storage facility is inaccessible, even when getting a clean health check from IBM. Typically rebooting the HMC fixes this.
• When decommissioning a box, you cannot delete arrays until ranks are done formatting. This adds a lot of time to the decomm process
• IO ports do not have a topology by default

Incentivized

Other vendors lack many of the mainframe functions provided by DS8k. SInce IBM is the most prominent maninframe vendor support is unmatched.

Incentivized

• The DS8000 helps my customers meet their overall business objectives by providing a bulletproof platform for the most critical enterprise environments

Incentivized