IBM SAN40B-4 vs INFINIDAT InfiniBox comparison

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    13th
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    Also Known As
    SAN40B-4
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    Overview
    The IBM System Storage SAN40B-4 SAN fabric switch provides 24, 32 or 40 active ports and is designed for high performance with 8 Gbps link speeds and backward compatibility to support links running at 4, 2 and 1 Gbps link speeds. High availability features make it suitable for use as a core switch in midrange environments or as an edge-switch in enterprise environments where a wide range of storage area network (SAN) infrastructure simplification and business continuity configurations are possible.

    InfiniBox, high performance enterprise data storage, eliminates performance, availability and scalability issues to accelerate critical business applications. Based upon a fully abstracted set of software driven storage functions layered on top of industry standard hardware, INFINIDAT delivers a fast, highly available, and easy-to-deploy storage system.

    Unmatched reliability and performance (99.99999% uptime) is delivered through an innovative self-healing architecture, high performance double-parity RAID, and comprehensive end-to-end data verification capability. In addition, an efficient data distribution architecture that uses all drives all the time, and a very large flash cache, deliver ultra-high performance with up to 1M IOPS, and over 12GB/s throughput along with our InfiniMetrics detailed performance monitoring.

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    Cosan, EF Education First, Intesa Sanpaolo Assicura S.p.A., Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, American National Bank
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    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise52%
    Large Enterprise37%

    IBM SAN40B-4 is ranked 13th in Enterprise SAN while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is ranked 7th in Enterprise SAN. IBM SAN40B-4 is rated 0.0, while INFINIDAT InfiniBox is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniBox writes "Good performance, suitable for big data, but the response time could be improved". IBM SAN40B-4 is most compared with , whereas INFINIDAT InfiniBox is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT, VMware vSAN and Dell XtremIO.

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