As routine business processes become increasingly data-dependent, companies are ramping up their storage infrastructures. But today's companies must weigh storage requirements against tightening budgets. Solutions must be cost-effective, scalable and accommodate a variety of storage requirements.IBM provides flexible business solutions that are designed to offer maximized price-to-performance ratios. IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 Storage Server is a full-Fiber Channel, Storage Area Net work (SAN) solution designed to provide the necessary performance at the right price.Buy what you need now, add more needed. The FAStT600 is a scalable storage server designed to allow you to build on your initial investment. Simply upgrade, not replace as your needs increase. The FAStT600 scales from 72 GB to over 6TB of storage using FAStT EXP700 expansion enclosures. Each expansion enclosure supports up to 14 Fiber Channel disk drives. Moreover, you can select the appropriate RAID level (from RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10) to match an application or suit particular needs, helping you to extend and leverage investments now and in the future.IBM FAStT Storage Manager 8.33 for the FAStT600 offers Dynamic Volume Expansion, RAID level migration and performance tuning along with high availability failover features. These functions can be an important part of your data availability and protection strategy.High availability is critical in today's knowledge-based economy. The TotalStorage FAStT600 Storage Server is designed to support high availability, providing protection against component failures. Dual active hot-swap RAID controllers help provide high throughput and redundancy, and each controller supports 256 MB of battery-backed cache. Redundant fans, power supplies, and dynamic storage management further support high availability to help reduce the risk of costly downtime or the loss of valuable data.