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IBM XIVÂ® Storage System: Snapshots Reinvented

Overview The ability to create and manage snapshots of existing volumes is among the most fundamental features commonly offered by enterprise-class storage systems today. In this white paper, we describe the XIV snapshot architecture and explain its underlying advantages in terms of performance, ease of use, flexibility and reliability. We explain how these advantages are achieved by harnessing the power afforded by the system's unique overall grid architecture.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Data Recovery - Security, Server Consolidation, Storage Consolidation

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