 The FlashSystem A9000 family supports IBM Real-time Compression, real-time global deduplication and real-time pattern removal, while maintaining average access times of 250 µs under database workloads.Up to 144 instances of FlashSystem A9000 and XIV Storage Systems can be combined into one "HyperScale cluster" with client multitenancy.Since A9000, A9000R and XIV Storage Systems share the Spectrum Accelerate management software, the FlashSystem A9000R is occasionally referred to as "XIV Gen4".