IBM DS4700 Express

Scalable, high-performance Fibre disk storage

With 4 drive ports that support switched FC, and FC-AL, the DS4700 Express is a solution that scales quickly to meet demand, and supports the most bandwidth-intensive applications with a 4Gbps Fibre Channel interface.

The IBM DS4700 Express features 1550Mbps throughput for enhanced performance, and a total of 8 host channels for enhanced connectivity, so you can share this high-performance disk systems across multiple applications and platforms in your heterogeneous environment.

Maintain enhanced availability and resiliency with dual active 4Gbps RAID controllers that support RAID0, RAID1, RAID3, RAID5 and RAID10 that provide fault-tolerance. In addition, the DS4700 Express disk systems feature redundant power and cooling components, hot-swap drives, concurrent microcode updates and a dual-pathing driver. In addition, the Capacity on Demand features of the DS4700 Express, such as Dynamic Capacity Addition and Dynamic Volume Expansion, are designed to allow you to grow your solution without disruption.

The DS4700 Express can be partitioned into as many as 64 virtual servers, to allow you to allocate storage capacity and maximize storage utilization, allowing various applications to share hardware components, such as RAID controllers, while centralizing management.

North American Systems has IBM-certified experts that can help you configure a disk system that meets your IT infrastructure needs. We can help you size, configure, test, stage, install and implement a disk solution that meets your business's performance, capacity and budget requirements. Whether you need a new disk system, or need to upgrade the performance, capacity, or capabilities of your current disk solution, North American Systems can ensure you maximize ROI, minimize TCO, and optimize efficiencies.

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