IBM FlashSystem Primary Use Case

Abdul-Salam - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Sohar International

Our company uses the solution for robotic process automation, workflow automation, and document management. 

The solution is used for certain front-end systems, so users are not aware of the how it operates on the backend. About 30 front-end users access each application across various bank branches. 

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Mike Bellemans - PeerSpot reviewer
Project manager at Sopraco NV

I work for a food manufacturer, and we use FlashSystem to provide always-on, high-availability data storage. It's an active-active configuration where storage data is actively synced between two sites. 

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Storemgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

My company hosts the database from Oracle on IBM FlashSystem.

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Atif Najam - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Our primary use case for this solution is managing and supporting our workloads currently running on IBM FlashSystem. Additionally, we use it to run our ERPs.

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Raanan Sitton - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Sales at BELOCAL LTD

IBM FlashSystem is used for performance systems.

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AM
Network and System Administrator at TWD Technologies Ltd.

The solution is primarily a file infrastructure. It contains all the virtual machines for our company.

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MM
Product Manager at ZELINKA d.o.o.

Our company uses the solution for central storage. Every person in our company is served by and accesses the solution. 

We also resell the solution to small business customers.  

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EMIL DOMINGUEZ - PeerSpot reviewer
HW Sales Representative at GBM (an IBM alliance Company)

I provide IBM FlashSystem to my customers and host it on the GBM private cloud, to give them the best services. I am working on a project to replace an HP Primera with an IBM FlashSystem 5200. This solution consists of two boxes connected with the remote mirroring feature of the FlashSystem. Each box has about 30 terabytes of storage and is replicated using a flash copy. The boxes are connected to a Power System running AIX, and I have implemented the EC tier with multiple layers of disk including MV, SST, and rotational disk. Additionally, I have set up Spectrum Protect to make backups to the TS 4300 tape. This project is currently being implemented and should be completed within the next month.

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Gungor Bingul - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Korozo

IBM FlashSystem is used for online transaction processing in TP solutions.

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PS
Storage Infrastructure Engineer at Cambridge Health Alliance

We are using IBM FlashSystem for data storage at the hospital I work at.

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JA
Head, Internal Audit at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using the solution for storing data. Recently we were having problems not being able to do a flash when we attempted. We will need to relay to IBM the challenges with taking the flash. Once this problem is resolved, we can do a better comparison with other solutions.

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Storemgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is block storage. We basically use it for the storage units.

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

Our primary use case is we are required to share storage. We share and cluster the application and databases. We use the IBM Flash System as a tier of storage. We have SND, cache, SST storage system, and staff storage. When performance or database is required we provide the storage tier from the SAS-based storage. It is a hybrid storage system that combines both SAS and SN storage.

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Janith Ranasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - IT at LankaClear

We use this solution for application and database coding.

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Storemgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case of this solution is deduplication.

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Pratyush Bhosale - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Manager - information technology at UTKARSH SMALL FINANCE BANK LIMITED

We use it for our databases.

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HB
COO at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

We usually use Storwize for SMB customers, when they need small but reliable storage and fast response times. The performance is great.

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RV
UNIX Security Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our entire company uses the solution for block storage. The solution is easily administered and maintained by four technicians. 

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SM
Head of IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We use IBM FlashSystem as part of our core system to enhance performance.

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Isanka Attanayake - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Information Technology Infrastructure and Development Support at Royal Ceramics

We use this solution for SAN storage.

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GM
BT Area Champion/Trainer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are living in IBM FlashSystem. We have more than eight flash storage devices deployed in our environment for different kinds of workloads such as applications, core systems, core banking applications, et cetera. 

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Usman Rasool - PeerSpot reviewer
VP - Head Enterprise Technology Infrastructure at MCB Islamic Bank Ltd.

The IBM FlashSystem is the primary storage for files and data in our organization.

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MN
Infrastructure Solutions Architect at areebah

The general use cases depend on the size of a company. I work with the commercial sector, the FlashSystem 5000 and its different models. It suits the small to medium, or SME, companies. The FlashSystem 9200 goes mainly to big enterprises, like banking or governmental sectors. The 7200 plays sometimes in SME and sometimes in bigger enterprises. 

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it_user736929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer & Support Contracts Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Using IBM storwize V7000 as storage to be used in daily operation as well using the virtualization capability along with doing data migrations of old storage data.

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MB
Chief Technology Officer at Inovo

We are running private clouds for various customers on top of VMware with IBM on the storage layer

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RC
Hybrid IT Enterprise Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case for the solution is virtualization.

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FS
Project Manager at Insirio S.p.A.

Storage virtualization. Two Storwize V7000 systems in a cluster configuration serve about 500 servers (physical and virtual).

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Nuno Chiziane - PeerSpot reviewer
Core Systems Services Consultant Infrastructure & Security at Asseco Central Europe, a.s.

We implement this solution for our customers, including African banks who use it for storage. 

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SemyonOsadchiy - PeerSpot reviewer
Commercial Director at MUK

It is useful for SAP, landscape or banking systems. The product system is good.

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DP
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use IBM FlashSystem with our VMware environment, however, there are times when we need to connect centers or just servers.

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ST
Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We used the solution exclusively for block storage. Over time, it added compression features and now even NVMe

It's perfectly suited for an on-premise solution or for providing a base for cloud solutions, VMware workloads, IBM i-series, IBM AIX, IBM Power, Linux, and Windows compute. In other words, the complete server stack. It is something others actually can't offer. All of this can be operated from within the same solution. 

It definitely has a strong plus in environments where you actually have such different server solutions in place.

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KashifAdeel - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Consultant - Infrastructure at InfoTech Group

We are using IBM FlashSystem as a storage system for core banking operations.

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GA
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The product is used as a central storage system. All live and test environment data, except for periodic data backups and centralized log management system data, is stored on the IBM Flash system.

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JS
Deputy director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are providing services to the other department, so FlashSystem is running several applications across multiple servers. In the future, we plan to increase our usage capacity to around 60 terabytes. 

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MJ
Technical Support Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My primary use case of this solution is an ERP application on finance.

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RC
Hybrid IT Enterprise Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I am an IBM reseller and I sell this solution to our clients. I have a lot of knowledge of this solution.

Our clients use this solution for database performance.

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BB
Deputy Chief Technology Officer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The solution is like a storage device that is for our old organized cloud infrastructure. We are using it as storage for all our databases, for the data we are preparing for in developing our own applications, or for running some infrastructure services. 

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PV
Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the FlashSystem to store our company data that is used in production systems.

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AR
CEO at a government with 1-10 employees

I am using the private deployment model. 

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RR
CTO at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We have a clustered network using an IBM 3650 for our server. Our environment is entirely in-house, and we are not currently running anything in the cloud.

We are planning to migrate from our current system, as the equipment is getting old.

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JL
Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

My company is a reseller, we deploy the storage. We use the latest version of IBM FlashSystem with our customers who are in hospital information systems. We use the solution for their data warehousing. We have five customers currently using this solution.

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JV
IT Director at UAGM

I use IBM FlashSystem for all of my VMware and BDI environments. I use a fiber channel network for conductivity.

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VC
Head of Data Center Administration at ООО Компания Тензор

We use IBM FlashSystem for backing up data.

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MN
Software Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are using FlashSystem 5000. There are about 15 people using this solution in my company.

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BS
NDT - TECHNICIAN at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using IBM FlashSystem for Oracle E-Business Suite backups.

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it_user672354 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using the IBM FlashSystem 900 in a tiered storage environment virtualized behind the IBM SAN Volume Controller in a stretched-cluster topology.

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ST
Senior System & Storage Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MD
Storage Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is our main production storage system. It is deployed in a few banks in Ukraine, where it is used to store the core system data.

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KV
Director Technical at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are solution providers. We deploy solutions around VMware. Typically we deploy data protection, and disaster recovery of workloads in the cloud, and on-premises.

If I need to know about a platform or the base platform on which I'm working, I try to read up on their model. We are also storage integrators and solution providers.

The primary use case is for storage, enterprise workloads, and databases.

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EO
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use the on-prem deployment model. Our primary use case for this solution is for backup for the solutions. We sell this solution to customers. 

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SY
Technical Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

We use IBM FlashSystem for VM farms, physical SQL servers, and replication.

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AH
System engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use this solution for database system storage in our organization.

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AA
Technical Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution can be used for backing up data, such as in databases and local clouds.

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DP
System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

My main use of this solution is for backup.

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IE
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for data reduction technology. We are using this solution on-premises, and we are also providing services to customers.

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it_user418875 - PeerSpot reviewer
Diretor de TI at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use it for virtualization and databases.

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Buyer's Guide
IBM FlashSystem
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM FlashSystem. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.