Sales of IBM Enterprise Storage Server Reach Global Proportions
A Range of Industries from Around the World Now Benefiting from “Shark” Disk Storage Performance
San Jose, CA (November 16, 1999) – IBM today announced widespread customer acceptance of its Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) — code-named “Shark” — which has been purchased by 30 of the Global 100 companies in its first 30 days of availability, a figure that is increasing weekly. With robust sales of the Enterprise Storage Server, the industry’s most advanced disk storage system, IBM is vowing to regain its lead in the enterprise disk storage system market.
“We’ve seen tremendous interest in the Enterprise Storage Server from companies around the world in all industries,” said Ron Kilpatrick, general manager of IBM’s Storage Systems Division. “The performance of the Enterprise Storage Server in real-world customer environments has surpassed our expectations. Customers around the world are telling us their ‘Shark’ is blowing away the competition in their production environments, whatever the server platform. The Enterprise Storage Server is not only scoring high marks with existing IBM customers, we’re winning over new customers who recognize that current competitive offerings cannot compete with the features and performance of an intelligent storage server like ‘Shark.'”
Companies around the world — many new customers of IBM — are reaping the benefits of the ESS as they develop data management systems to meet their diverse business needs. These customers are recognizing the need for cost-effective enterprise storage that will grow as their requirements for capacity, performance and connectivity change over time. The unsurpassed performance and scalability of the ESS, based on IBM’s Seascape architecture, is providing unprecedented investment protection for a variety of customers:
Source: IBM