IBM FlashSystem 5000

The IBM FlashSystem® 5000 models (5015 and 5035) offer the affordability, performance and management simplicity your organization needs in a cost-effective, 2U, flash or hybrid flash storage solution.

Hybrid cloud storage capabilities

Scalable support for private, public and hybrid cloud deployments.

Affordability without compromise

Economic all-flash or hybrid storage solutions to fit your capacity and budget.

High performance and resilience

Powerful entry-level storage with enterprise-grade capabilities to maximize data protection and high availability.

Optimize hybrid cloud and increase business agility

Leveraging hybrid cloud capabilities to enhance your current environment will save you time and money while future-proofing your data infrastructure. Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software, IBM FlashSystem 5000 models extend capabilities and data services to existing systems. They also enable data access, delivery and placement across public cloud,

private-cloud and on-premises environments. Grow your hybrid cloud with the flexibility to start small and scale up as business demands evolve.

With IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud, a complementary offering to FlashSystem, you get real-time data replication and disaster recovery. You also get data migration between your existing on-premises infrastructure and leading cloud providers to further increase business agility, resilience and data security.

Increase efficiency, lower costs

IBM FlashSystem 5000 offers enterprise-class capabilities and performance for entry workloads. Get storage capacity and speed to meet current needs along with the ability to scale as these needs grow. With better performance and a tiered storage environment, you can use less space, which reduces maintenance expenses and other operating costs. FlashSystem 5015 and 5035 include AI-driven IBM Easy Tier®, which automatically migrates frequently accessed data elements to your high-performing flash storage. This ensures that your data is on the right storage tier, balancing cost and performance. FlashSystem 5035 also includes innovative data reduction options with compression, deduplication and automated thin provisioning. These capabilities significantly improve usable capacity and efficiency, allowing you to store more in less space.

Data-reduction guarantee

2:1 self-certified or up to 5:1 with workload profiling

No-cost migration

90-day, no-cost data migration from over 500 storage controllers, both IBM and non-IBM.

Consistent management

Optimize resources with a single platform that simplifies management and grows with you.

Improve performance and data resilience

IBM FlashSystem 5000 models include IBM Storage Insights, cloud-supported storage management software with predictive AI-based analytics. This software monitors changes in your storage capacity and performance levels in real time, identifying and quickly resolving issues with automated support features.

Speed business decisions with enterprise-grade performance for entry-level price

Less than 70 microsecond latencies. FlashSystem 5015 can reach up to 400K IOPs. FlashSystem 5035 can reach up to 1.2M IOPs.

Improve the health and performance of your infrastructure with Storage Insights

66% of system issues resolved automatically.

40% faster action plan after a case is opened.

FlashSystem 5000 models are fully redundant, dual-site, active-active, high-availability solutions to ensure business continuity. FlashSystem 5015 capabilities include 99.9999% availability and FlashCopy  FlashSystem 5035 extends data resilience and business continuity with security features that include non-disruptive data migration and remote mirroring using IBM HyperSwap® technology, and hardware-accelerated data-at-rest encryption.