IBM Storwize Family

The IBM Storwize family provides all-flash and hybrid storage solutions with common functionality, management and mobility.
These solutions are built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software to enable efficient, proven data virtualisation across IBM and non-IBM storage systems.
IBM Storwize delivers cost-effective flash deployment, so you can optimise capital and operational expenses, while maximising efficiency and flexibility for heterogeneous storage systems.
Available in a wide range of storage systems, IBM Storwize includes IBM Real-time Compression and other advanced capabilities, which are easy to deploy and help you control costs as your business grows.

IBM Storwize advantages


  • Built-in virtualisation simplifies management and increase storage utilisation by up to 100%
  • Improve your business agility with flash storage and heterogeneous data services
  • Scale seamlessly, get higher flexibility and protect your investment with IBM® Storwize® system clustering, up to 32 petabytes of flash capacity without disruption in only four racks.
  • Transform the economics of data storage using IBM Real-time Compression™, store up to 5x more data in the same space
  • Optimise tiered storage—including flash storage—with IBM Easy Tier®
  • Powerful new Transparent Cloud Tiering enables rapid deployment of hybrid cloud solutions
  • Address security requirements by encrypting data on existing storage

IBM Storwize family


  • IBM Storwize V7000 Unified and IBM Storwize V7000:

    Highly scalable, virtualised, enterprise-class, hybrid storage solutions designed to consolidate workloads into a single system for ease of management, reduced costs, superior performance and high availability
  • IBM Storwize V7000F and IBM Strowize V5000F

    All-flash enterprise-class solutions designed to deliver high performance with advanced storage capabilities for both larger and smaller configurations
  • IBM Storwize V5000:

    Highly flexible, easy-to-use, virtualised hybrid storage solution designed to enable midsized organizations to overcome their storage challenges with advanced functionality