IBM has decided to raise the price of most of its storage products in many of the countries in which it has a presence. As confirmed by the company itself, the price increase will be effective as early as 2023, starting next January 1.
It is likely that the company’s customers in the United States will not be affected by the increases, while those in countries such as Canada and Japan, as well as a large part of those in Continental Europe, North Africa and the Caribbean region will suffer price increases. . Among the affected countries is Spain, as well as Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Grecis, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. That is, practically all of Europe.
IBM clients in affected countries will face a 5-10% price hike for storage services across various products. These include enterprise servers such as the FlashSystem 5000 and FlashSystem 7000 systems. Also in IBM Elastic Storage System, IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) services. To find out the exact price that they will have to pay starting next month, each customer will have to contact their company service provider.
For now, the company has not specified the reasons it has had for making this decision, but the increases seem to be related to the inflation that is being registered globally during this year 2022, which may be around 8.8% on average for all these years Meanwhile, IBM continues to expand its storage offerings.
Among these storage innovations that have come to light this year is a data storage offer using a magnetic tape technology system (LTO, Linear Tape Open), with which it offers its customers up to 27 Petabytes of capacity in a single rack.
It is intended for hyperscale operators who need to massively add packet data to their storage. IBM has called this service Diamond Back Tape Libraryand has highlighted its advantages in terms of cybersecurity, noting that it uses tape storage to create a physical hole and keep offline data and backup safe from online threats.
