The IBM System Storage N5600 appliance is the latest member of IBM's N series storage family. The device is aimed at small to medium-sized businesses poised for growth, offering an easy migration path to the company's enterprise class offerings, scaling to 252 terabytes of physical capacity. The N5600 will be positioned between IBM's N5500 and N7600 appliances, and offer simultaneous connectivity to 4Gbps fiber channel and high speed GbE iSCSI networks and features a 64-bit architecture and PCIe controllers, designed to allow for easy, seamless updates.Because the N5600 uses the same disk drives, expansion units and advanced software features as the other N series products, upgrades are seamless. The N5600 increases the performance of the N5500, with 50% more spindles and capacity as well as twice the memory and up to three times the maximum total bandwidth.