IBM Extends SMB Portfolio

ARMONK, N.Y. -- IBM today continued its commitment to

small and medium sized businesses (SMB), announcing new unified primary and

secondary storage offerings for the enterprise-class performance at an

entry level price point.

The new IBM System Storage N3000 series systems - the N3300 and N3600 aredesigned to specifically help small and mid-sized customers centralize

their storage in remote and branch offices, as well as increase performance

and scalability by helping to consolidate fragmented application-based

storage in a single, easy to use infrastructure.

The N3000 series, with the introduction of the IBM System Storage N3300 and

N3600 systems,

continues IBM’s commitment to SMB customers - which includes investing

extensively in an ecosystem for education, access to insights from industry

thought leaders, easy implementation services and an extensive businesspartner community to help SMB customers with every aspect of increasing

productivity and performance.

“IBM is focused on delivering enterprise-class solutions to the SMB market

that are cost effective and easy to use,” said Charlie Andrews, Director,

IBM System Storage Product Marketing. “With the continued commitment toour N-Series product line, we are helping our SMB customers solve their

storage challenges with trusted, innovative solutions that will help them

increase productivity and performance, while simultaneously lowering costs.

Combined with IBM's systems, software, and services for small business

along with our extensive business partner channel, IBM helps design, deployand maintain solutions that matter to small and medium size businesses

throughout the world.”

IBM Corp.