IBM Corp. on Tuesday will announce a number of enhancements to its Shark Enterprise Storage System (ESS) Model 800 arrays designed to increase the performance and ease of management of the storage systems.
As part of this week's mainframe announcement, IBM Corp. introduced several enhancements to its flagship Shark disk array, including support for long-distance data mirroring and for configuring arrays with up to 6.9TB of standby storage capacity.
IBM Corp. will soon be offering new low- and high-end storage arrays aimed at challenging rivals such as Hitachi Ltd. and Dell Computer Corp. with faster devices that provide lower ownership costs.