This document discusses IBM's XIV storage system and its advantages over traditional storage. Some key points:
- XIV provides radical simplicity through its self-optimizing architecture that eliminates hotspots and manual tuning. It also offers enterprise features like snapshots and mirroring at no extra cost.
- Its scale-out architecture allows it to scale capacity and performance non-disruptively. It can also migrate volumes between systems transparently to hosts.
- Benchmark tests show it achieves exceptional performance and price/performance results. Customers report it is easier to deploy and manage than other solutions and provides more predictable performance.