The State of the Core – Engineering the Enterprise Storage Infrastructure with the IBM DS8000-April 2010. In this Technology Brief, we’ll examine how the requirements for enterprise-class storage are changing, and are now equally fixated upon integration that enhances the performance, efficiency and value of storage features. Then with this in mind, we’ll examine how one set of solutions, the IBM DS8000 series arrays, are delivering a storage foundation to help customers extend the storage capabilities of their entire infrastructure, well beyond the task of simply serving up tremendous amounts of IO.