Originally posted by: TonyPearson

Well, it's Tuesday, and you all know what that means... IBM announcements!

This week, IBM announced the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, affectionately referred to as "MRE". This is basically TPC for Disk but with two key differences:

• A special license that covers only DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 series, whether natively attached or virtualized behind SAN Volume Controller.
• A new pricing model based on the number on controllers and drawers, rather than by TB managed. For example, if you have a DS5300 and two expansion drawers, then you pay for three units of MRE. As you upgrade from smaller capacity disks to larger capacity disks, your license costs won't increase. This eliminates the quarterly hassle to "true up" your software licenses to match actual capacity that is required on TB-based licensing.

This includes the [new DS3500 model] that was announced last month. This was part of the set of solutions to [help midsized businesses].

A fresh new blogger on the scene, Anthony Vandewerdt (IBM), covers [10 things I like about the IBM DS3500], saving me the trouble.

For more information on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, see the IBM [Announcement Letter].

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