Of course, most of the storage news announced this week is focused on the enterprise market, although more companies are trying to bring high-end features to the mid-market.
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IBM Storage Systems Group , for example, today announced it is repackaging its storage virtualization software into the SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition to appeal to the SMB market, which it called one of the fastest growing segments of the storage marketplace. The SVC software is designed to create consolidated virtual pools of storage and improve storage utilization rates while making it easier for administrators to manage and move growing amounts of data.
The biggest change for the disk virtualizing appliance is pricing. "We're pricing it on a per-drive basis, rather than a per-terabyte basis, to make it more affordable. And we've also cut the price," said Charlie Andrews, a director of marketing for IBM System Storage. An SVC Entry Edition managing a four TB configuration using 10 500-GB drives will cost around $40,000, down from around $63,000, while a system to manage 14 TBs on 35 drives will cost around $64,500, down from around $111,000, he said.
Andrews acknowledged to ByteandSwitch that SMBs won't see the highest performance if they're using lower-cost disks and the SVC Entry Edition, but said system performance will be fine for most customers and can be upgraded by using faster disks. IBM also announced that the SAN Volume Controller interoperates with the new IBM XIV Storage System, the IBM System Storage DS5000, and the IBM System z/VSE, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V, HDS Universal Storage Platform, and HP XP20000/XP24000.
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