List of IBM Storage DS8000 Customers
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Since 2010, our global team of researchers has been studying IBM Storage DS8000 customers around the world, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions and perhaps the rise and fall of certain vendors and their products on a quarterly basis.
Each quarter our research team identifies companies that have purchased IBM Storage DS8000 for Servers, Storage and Networking from public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources, including the customer size, industry, location, implementation status, partner involvement, LOB Key Stakeholders and related IT decision-makers contact details.
Companies using IBM Storage DS8000 for Servers, Storage and Networking include: National Organization For Social Insurance Egypt, a Egypt based Government organisation with 5000 employees and revenues of $15.90 billion, ANZ Bank, a Australia based Banking and Financial Services organisation with 43094 employees and revenues of $13.40 billion, Nitori Japan, a Japan based Retail organisation with 18974 employees and revenues of $5.24 billion and many others.
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ANZ Bank | Banking and Financial Services | 43094 | $13.4B | Australia | IBM | IBM Storage DS8000 | Servers, Storage and Networking | 2015 | n/a |
In 2015, ANZ Bank deployed IBM Storage DS8000 as part of a mainframe infrastructure transformation across Australia and New Zealand. The IBM Storage DS8000 implementation, aligned with the Servers, Storage and Networking category, targeted core banking systems in the finance function to improve platform resiliency and disaster recovery posture.
The deployment positioned IBM Storage DS8000 as the central enterprise storage tier for mainframe workloads, integrating with the bank's mainframe processing and supporting dual-site operations across primary and alternate data centers. Configuration emphasized storage replication and high availability capabilities to enable more frequent site swaps and reduce recovery time objectives, and standard storage management and orchestration practices were applied to coordinate failover sequencing.
Operational scope covered Australia and New Zealand production sites and the core banking finance domain, while governance changes concentrated on streamlining disaster recovery runbooks and operational processes for site swaps. The implementation enabled more frequent site swaps and faster recovery times, streamlining disaster recovery processes across primary and alternate sites.
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National Organization For Social Insurance Egypt | Government | 5000 | $15.9B | Egypt | IBM | IBM Storage DS8000 | Servers, Storage and Networking | 2024 | n/a |
In 2024 National Organization For Social Insurance Egypt implemented IBM Storage DS8000 under the Servers, Storage and Networking category to expand resilient enterprise storage for its social insurance and pension services. The storage deployment formed part of a broader IBM Z platform modernization that included a z16 upgrade.
The implementation increased physical storage capacity by about 30 percent and was provisioned as enterprise block storage to support mainframe workloads. IBM Storage DS8000 was configured to work alongside mainframe storage management practices, supporting capacity expansion, high availability configurations and throughput required by finance and government transaction processing.
Integrations focused on tight coupling with the upgraded IBM Z z16 environment and the introduction of observability tooling to provide monitoring and telemetry for storage and application layers. Operational scope covered the organization’s social insurance and pension services across Egypt, with infrastructure and application teams aligned to maintain mainframe service levels.
Governance and rollout were coordinated with the z16 upgrade and the observability tooling deployment, enabling improved capacity planning and supporting application modernization outcomes and operational resilience. The combined storage and observability implementation centralized storage capacity visibility and reinforced infrastructure operations for government finance workloads.
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Nitori Japan | Retail | 18974 | $5.2B | Japan | IBM | IBM Storage DS8000 | Servers, Storage and Networking | 2019 | Ibm |
In 2019, Nitori Japan migrated its existing IBM Storage DS8000 to an all flash IBM DS8886F, implementing IBM Storage DS8000 as a centralized enterprise storage platform. The deployment is recorded under the Servers, Storage and Networking category and was executed to support on premise IBM Power Systems that host core retail applications.
The implementation focused on enterprise block storage capabilities common to the DS8000 family, delivering increased throughput, higher IOPS, and expanded capacity management to handle transactional and batch workloads. Configuration centered on all flash media and DS8000 family architecture to sustain performance during peak retail cycles, with standard storage functions such as tiered capacity planning and throughput optimization.
Integrations included direct support for IBM Power Systems as the compute platform, and the storage footprint was aligned to operational domains in Japan including planning, finance, logistics, and sales. The scope emphasized back office and store-facing business functions, consolidating storage for multiple enterprise workloads under the DS8886F array.
IBM acted as the implementation partner for the migration and rollout, which standardized storage operations across Nitori Japan’s retail systems. The migration increased throughput and readiness for peak demand, improving the storage platform’s ability to meet seasonal and operational spikes while preserving DS8000 family compatibility for future capacity and performance scaling.
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