IBM moved to undercut its rivals Friday
by offering an entry-level storage server for about a third less than the street cost of EMC’s and HP’s comparable products.
IBM’s new TotalStorage DS300 is an entry-level disk server, based on iSCSI
N.Y., company also trotted out the TotalStorage DS400, a 2 gigabyte Fibre
Channel
The DS300 and DS400 are part of the company’s TotalStorage DS family. Big
Blue is presenting the DS300 and DS400, which run Windows and Linux, as suitable
storage systems for its eServer xSeries and BladeCenter rackable systems to
serve work group and departmental needs, such as managing databases, e-mail
and Web serving.
Rich Lechner, vice president of IBM Storage Systems, said the DS300 is
“extremely aggressively priced” to help IBM better compete with EMC and
HP.
EMC last May issued
the AX100 as its leanest entry-level storage product, priced between $4,999
and $9,999. The product also targets HP’s new MSA
1500, which starts at $8,995.
By comparison, IBM’s DS300 VL model starts at $2,995, but costs
$4,642 with three 146GB drives. A DS300 Single Controller model will cost $6,091
with the drives. The DS300 Dual Controller with five drives will run customers
$8,340, a price still lower than HP and EMC’s entry-level machines.
IBM, HP , EMC and Dell
are all
fighting it out in the small- and medium-sized business space, which many
experts expect to grow rapidly as budgets loosen up.
Lechner told internetnews.com that the low cost of the DS300 is predicated on
the fact that the new machine is based on the iSCSI protocol, a
substantially cheaper means to move data from servers to storage. At a time
when pricey Fibre Channel boxes rule the roost,
vendors are looking to offer customers with tight budgets low-cost options
based on iSCSI.
The DS300 is evidence of that. With iSCSI, an IP-based method,
clients can create storage area networks
Ethernet
Gartner expects to mature into a $2.7 billion market by 2008, improves SAN
management.
The DS300 is fitted with Ultra320 SCSI drives, battery backup cache and
redundant, hot-swappable power supplies, which means users can add new power
supplies without taking down that server.
New members of this TotalStorage DS family include the DS4000 Mid-range Disk
Systems family and the DS4000 Storage Manager V9.1. The Manager is software
that can be downloaded from the Web that provides new remote mirroring and
copy functions, called Global Mirror and Global Copy, to help customers
mirror data both synchronously and asynchronously.
These features were previously only available in the company’s high-end
Shark array.
The IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager is available now. Single
controller models of the DS300 and DS400 will ship September 24, with dual
controller models to come December 17.
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