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VDI Solutions simplified through every turn. IBM hardware optimized storage solutions scale both up and out as your environment continues to grow. Whether its 500 or 5000 desktops, IBM can assist in achieving any of your scale requirements

1. ESG Research Report, “Solid state: ‘ Just Part of the Storage Forniture’ September, 20153. Gartner, Predicts 2015: Managing “Data Lakes” of unprecedented Enormity, 2015

25 %

of all mission-critical will be managed and stored with solid-state solutions, by 20183

Enterprise spending on systems and storage is forecast to increase to $86.3 billion in 2018

storage pain points for IT Managers are

The top 2delivering performance and rapid capacity growth1

The Smarter Software Storage Approach

http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/

IBM Cloud Optimized Storage Solutions

• Spectrum Accelerate is the foundation for the A9000/R

• Full VMWare integration with the A9000 platform

• Simple ease of management through world class GUI

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d • Seamless Storage optimization through deduplication and compression

• Scale up and out real time

• Based on the fastest storage offering in the world, the FlashSystem 900

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ble • The

A9000R can scale both up and out seamlessly as your workloads increase.

• The system can have more building blocks added at any time to scale up to 1.7 Petabytes of optimized capacity

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lity • 99.999%

uptime guarantees your workloads are always up

• Hot firmware upgrades, Technical advisor assistance along the way and easily expandable with zero down time

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The Smarter Software Storage Approach IBM Cloud Optimized FlashSystem Storage Solutions