IBM System Storage DS8000 Series Scalability

KM
Solution Architect; Senior Manager Mainframe Technical Service at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

While the solution scales and can grow, it's just the pricing for the capacity that grows with it. Organizations need to be aware that the costs will go up as they expand the solution out. The bigger you go, the more you pay.

Currently, we have about 200 users on the solution right now. They just handle setup and management.

The solution is always growing and we're always expanding it.

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it_user672402 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is easy to work with and to configure. On the mainframe side, once you're configured everything, it is straight up. On the open system side, it's a little different. At least from the mainframe perspective, it's easy.

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AS
Team Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's a highly scalable product.

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it_user674232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is fine. We have not had any issues there. We're a pretty big shop, so we buy everything pretty big in the beginning. Occasionally, we'll upgrade some frames, but normally, that's not a problem either. We've done that to add storage.

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it_user672408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is very scalable.

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