IBM is rolling out an extensive refresh of its main storage product lines. Big Blue Oct. 23 introduced a new release for its flagship enterprise disk storage system, new and enhanced storage virtualization products for disk and tape storage, and improvements to lower-end disk and tape storage packages for small and midsize businesses.

<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1759%2C2205486%2C00.asp">The company's System Storage DS8000 Turbo series</A> now features a storage control console that acts as the equivalent of a "universal remote control," Cindy Grossman, vice president of tape and archive storage systems, told eWEEK.

Called the IBM System Storage Productivity Center, the Web-based console offers a consolidated view of an organization's storage system nodes for management and configuration, Grossman said. The console allows storage administrators to configure multiple storage devices at one time.