IBM System Storage N6040 Specification Sheet

Expanding the possibilities for your business with a storage system 

IBM System Storage N6000 series 

Highlights 

■  Meet diverse and changing 

needs. Consolidate diverse 

data sets onto a unified storage 

platform that provides simulta­

neous block and file services 

for business and technical 

applications. 

■  Perform when your applications 

need it most. Outstanding file-

based and transaction-based 

performance with high band­

width, 64-bit architecture, and 

the latest I/O technologies. 

■  Respond to growth. Thin provi­

sioning helps you eliminate 

stranded storage. Preserve 

investments in staff expertise 

and capital equipment with 

data-in-place upgrades to more 

powerful N series systems while 

running the same OS and using 

the same management tools. 

■  Maximize your resources. 

Highly efficient storage utiliza­

tion makes it possible for you 

to dramatically reduce your 

consumption of raw storage, 

power, cooling, and space. 

■  Improve your business effi­

ciency. Clients with different 

storage subsystems in their 

SAN environments can now 

take advantage of the N6000 

series Gateway capabilities to 

help improve business effi­

ciency and reduce data 

management complexity. 

Today’s business environment demands 

innovation and increasingly flawless 

execution. You are asked to manage 

and protect valuable data to enable 

business growth and success. Change 

can be continuous and your IT opera­

tions have to evolve while adhering to 

hard limits on budget, staffing, and 

infrastructure. Virtualized computing, 

the latest wave of change, is quickly 

becoming the norm. It calls for net­

worked storage systems that you can 

use to consolidate diverse data sets 

and unlock the full potential of virtual­

ized servers. 

Now you can simultaneously meet your 

diverse needs—SAN and NAS, primary 

and secondary storage—and provide 

high levels of application availability for 

your critical business operations to 

technical applications. With IBM N6000 

series systems, you get outstanding 

value: our flexible systems offer excel­

lent performance and impressive scala­

bility at a low total cost of ownership.