Within the storage track by David Vaughn many different technologies were described.

Following is a short list of waht happens in the next few months:

ProtecTIER for de-duplication

• 250TB of data compressed to 10TB (as an example)
• data on disk
• 12month RIO
• descreate of backup time/volume as data are deduplicated

XIV

• 2TB SATA disks to be announced
• infiniband to be announced

SDD

• only reasonable usage for special purpose at the moment ( too expensive for a normal usage)
• putting all data on SSD is way to expensive
• selected files/folders on SSD is best practice by IBM

IBM Information Archive

• properly will replace DR550
• based on NAS
• Index/Search data ability
• shipping early next year

DS8000

• new design will be released -> 2,5% faster
• exchange of all HW without outage possible
• full-disk encryption feature to be released
• new GUI enhancements

SVC

• SDD support
• ISCSI support
• new server HW to be released -> speeds up SVC 2times
• 8Gbps FC adapters to be released