The IBM Storage product portfolio includes disk, flash, tape, NAS storage products, storage software and services. IBM's approach is to focus on data management...
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IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD)...
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IBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect / Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)) is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point...
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The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. System/360...
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IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as...
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Z/Architecture (redirect from IBM mainframe expanded storage)
64-bit fields or 1 128-bit field. IBM classifies memory in z/Architecture into Main Storage and Expanded Storage. Main storage is addressed in 8-bit bytes (octets)...
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The IBM XIV Storage System was a line of cabinet-size disk storage servers. The system is a collection of modules, each of which is an independent computer...
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The IBM 2395 Processor Storage is a memory storage unit that was a component of the IBM System/360 Model 91 and Model 95. Despite the name, IBM 2395 Processor...
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was made when support for virtual storage was introduced with IBM's "System/370 Advanced Function" announcement. IBM had initially (and controversially)...
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IBM 721: IBM 7090/IBM 7094 Card Punch IBM 729: IBM 7090/IBM 7094 Magnetic tape Unit IBM 1301: IBM 7090/IBM 7094 Disk Storage IBM 1302: IBM 7090/IBM 7094...
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The IBM DS8000 series (early IBM System Storage DS8000 series) is an IBM storage media platform with hybrid flash and hard disk storage for IBM mainframes...
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form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning in 1956 with the "IBM 350 disk storage unit".) Audio information was originally...
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The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage. The system...
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The IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) or the Shark is an enterprise storage array from IBM. Originally, in 1998 IBM released the IBM 2105 Versatile Storage...
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IBM FlashSystem is an IBM Storage enterprise system that stores data on flash memory. Unlike storage systems that use standard solid-state drives, IBM...
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IBM Cloud Object Storage is a service offered by IBM for storing and accessing unstructured data. The object storage service can be deployed on-premises...
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The IBM 3850 Mass Storage System (MSS) was an online tape library used to hold large amounts of infrequently accessed data. It was one of the earliest...
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Punched card (redirect from IBM card)
and storage. IBM's 80-column format became a dominant standard, and punched cards were used for decades before being replaced by magnetic storage and...
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Systems IBM 407 Accounting Machine IBM 543 Card Reader Unit IBM 544 Card Punch Unit IBM 652 Control Unit (magnetic tape, disk) IBM 653 Storage Unit (magnetic...
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The IBM 3592 is a series of enterprise-class tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM. The first drive,...
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Storage (DDS) on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) 1992: Ampex DST 1994: Mammoth 1995: IBM 3590 1995: StorageTek Redwood SD-3 1995: Travan 1996: AIT 1997: IBM...
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IBM Storwize systems were virtualizing RAID computer data storage systems with raw storage capacities up to 32 PB. Storwize is based on the same software...
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IBM System i IBM eServer xSeries became IBM System x (later Lenovo System x) IBM TotalStorage became IBM Storage IBM eServer BladeCenter became IBM BladeCenter...
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The IBM 1360 Photo-Digital Storage System, or PDSS, was an online archival storage system for large data centers. It was the first storage device designed...
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Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) was a serial transport protocol used to attach disk drives to server computers. It was developed by IBM employee Ian...
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Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) is an IBM direct-access storage device (DASD) file storage access method, first used in the OS/VS1, OS/VS2 Release...
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by IBM, e.g., IBM 305, IBM 650, IBM offered drum devices as secondary storage for the 700/7000 series and System/360 series of computers. The IBM 731...
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International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered...
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The IBM System/32 (IBM 5320) introduced in January 1975 was a midrange computer with built-in display screen, disk drives, printer, and database report...
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family of data management products, including database servers, developed by IBM. It initially supported the relational model, but was extended to support...
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