IBM says it is hiking storage prices across the world
Price increases range from between 5% and 10%
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IBM has announced price increases for a wide variety of its storage products, which are set to take effect from 2023 onwards.
Customers in the UK, Canada, Japan, much of Mainland Europe, and many parts of North Africa and the Caribbean are expected to see cost increases, however US users may be unaffected.
Customers in these regions may expect to pay between 5% and 10%, forbusiness serverssuch as the FlashSystem 5000 and FlashSystem 7000, as well as the IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS), the IBM SAN Volume Controller, and IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS).
Why the move?
IBM has yet to provide an exact reason for the changes, but the price rises seem to be broadly in line with the rapid global inflation seen so far in 2022, which the World Economic Forum predicts to be around 8.8% for the entire year.
You can head to IBM’s website to get a complete run-down of what’s changinghere.
The news comes as IBM continues to expand its storage offering.
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