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IBM Storage: Product Guide IBM Storage Product guide Contents 3 Introduction 5 Portfolio 7 Storage for data and AI 11 Storage for hybrid cloud 18 Data Resilience 22 Storage for IBM Z 26 Storage for SAP HANA 30 Storage for containers 35 Storage networking 39 Converged infrastructure 42 IBM Services for storage 43 Conclusion IBM Storage is the Storage right foundation for your data-driven made hybrid cloud. simple Introduction Every day you face a complex mix of events that IBM® Storage simplifies your data infrastructure What’s possible Storage for hybrid cloud can affect business outcomes, like managing using an underlying software foundation to Reduce complexity with container-enabled growing data and LOB applications, maintaining strengthen and streamline the storage in your with IBM Storage enterprise storage, deployed seamlessly core IT applications and uncovering competitive hybrid cloud environment, using a simplified across on-premises and hybrid cloud advantage. All of these demands put pressure on approach to containerization, management storage environments. your storage infrastructure’s performance, and data protection. capacity and security. AI and data Simplify your infrastructure with optimized efficiency to drive faster results that are massively scalable and globally available from edge to inference. Data resilience Maximize backup storage efficiency, data security and performance with maximum uptime and resilience while lowering costs. Storage for containers Surpass your business goals with speed, productivity and agility, all enabled by a security-rich, persistent storage infrastructure with enterprise-class services for private cloud and Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Storage. Introduction Portfolio Storage for Storage for Data Storage Storage for Storage for Storage Converged IBM Storage More Data and AI hybrid cloud resilience for IBM Z SAP HANA containers networking infrastructure services information < 4 > IBM Storage Portfolio Storage for data and AI Storage for hybrid cloud Data resilience Storage for IBM Z IBM Spectrum® Scale IBM FlashSystem® family IBM Spectrum Protect IBM DS8000 Storage systems IBM Cloud® Object Storage IBM SAN Volume Controller IBM Spectrum Protect Plus IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library IBM Spectrum® Discover IBM Storage Insights IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management IBM Spectrum Scale IBM Elastic Storage® System IBM Spectrum Control IBM Spectrum Archive IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud IBM Tape Solutions IBM Spectrum Storage™ Suite IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks IBM FlashWatch Storage for SAP HANA Storage for containers Storage networking Converged infrastructure IBM FlashSystem family IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift SAN b-type family VersaStack IBM Spectrum Protect IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks SAN c-type family VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management IBM FlashSystem family IBM DS8000 Storage systems IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud IBM Spectrum Scale IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM Spectrum Discover IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Introduction Portfolio Storage for Storage for Data Storage Storage for Storage for Storage Converged IBM Storage More Data and AI hybrid cloud resilience for IBM Z SAP HANA containers networking infrastructure services information < 5 > Storage for data and AI Challenges Offerings AI is a journey that begins with data. Data is the fuel The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a destination venue Increased performance IBM Spectrum Scale for AI, and AI cannot exist without an information for fans of major sports, concerts and other live High-performance architecture with parallel access IBM Cloud Object Storage architecture, or IA. Being able to gain business value events. IBM solutions provide a wide array of to data and optimized cache for remote data IBM Spectrum Discover and insights from data is not always easy. The best AI technologies integrated into a single, seamless, state- IBM Elastic Storage System® is built on a foundation of data that’s collected and of-the-art system that provides fans with a unique, Information Architecture for AI and hybrid cloud IBM Elastic Storage System 3000 organized as carefully as it’s analyzed, and finally personalized experience that enhances the action on Provide storage solutions optimized for the AI infused into the business. Organizations are the field or stage. The system includes both on- journey and agile for hybrid cloud challenged with gaining insights from their data for premises and cloud-based IBM Storage solutions. IBM many reasons. Legacy infrastructure is inadequate for and Flagship Solutions Group created a powerful Scalable AI infrastructure AI workloads and data silos make it difficult to get a hybrid storage landscape built around IBM Elastic Leverage the ability to start small and scale with holistic view of all your information, limiting the value Storage Server with IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM virtually no limits of AI. Current infrastructure that wasn’t built for AI FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Cloud Object Storage. isn’t flexible enough to respond to new demands Enhanced data flow efficiency without adding complexity. Benefits Reduce costs with built-in data life cycle Global data access management and policy-based optimization Why IBM? Access data anywhere for agility and faster insights IBM Storage for data and AI is more than a set of Simplify data access storage products and solutions. It consists of a Global data services Containerized for fast and easy deployment with storage strategy that will help you on your journey to Protect and secure your most valuable resources container-native storage AI and the hybrid cloud.. Our solutions provide a - your data flexible, high-performance information architecture that modernizes your infrastructure with global data Accurate insights and analytics access and services that are simple to manage, faster Employ a consolidated interface to more precisely to access and optimized to scale with cost efficiencies manage data insights to drive down expenses and bring more value to your organization. Increased efficiency Support of integrated life cycle management and tiering to cloud Introduction Portfolio Storage for Storage for Data Storage Storage for Storage for Storage Converged IBM Storage More Data and AI hybrid cloud resilience for IBM Z SAP HANA containers networking infrastructure services information < 7 > Storage for Data and AI Offerings IBM Spectrum Scale IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM Spectrum Discover IBM Spectrum Scale is a highly scalable, data IBM Cloud Object Storage is designed to support IBM Spectrum Discover is a multi-source data Did you know? efficient, high-performance storage solution with exponential data growth with simplicity, high catalog that automatically and continuously Did you know? IBM Elastic Storage enterprise security and a global parallel file system durability, security and efficiency for cloud-native indexes objects and files whenever changes are System 3200 is the one of the simplest for both file and object storage data access. IBM and object-based workloads. This solution provides made using the metadata in real-time. IBM ways to deploy IBM Spectrum Scale. Spectrum Scale enables the unification of data across industry-leading software-defined hyperscale and Spectrum Discover also helps ease the burden of Learn more about IBM Elastic Storage a hybrid cloud into a single scale-out storage solution cost-effective storage for data on the edge, the data orchestration across the hybrid cloud. System 3200. for the entire data center from edge to core to public core data center, or the private or public cloud. cloud. IBM Spectrum Scale delivers the global data With a unique shared-nothing parallel architecture, Learn more about IBM Spectrum Discover → services applications need. Cloud Object Storage can help you maintain and improve performance. As the solution grows from Learn more about IBM Spectrum Scale → terabyte to petabyte or even to exabyte configura- tions, it’s designed to never go down with geo- dispersed data protection. Commonly deployed as a storage solution for large data deployments with multiple concurrent applications or users, IBM Cloud Object Storage is also used for data archiving and backup for many traditional applications. Learn more about IBM Cloud Object Storage → Introduction Portfolio Storage for Storage for Data Storage Storage for Storage for Storage Converged IBM Storage More Data and AI hybrid cloud resilience for IBM Z SAP HANA containers networking infrastructure services information < 8 > Storage for Data and AI Offerings IBM Elastic Storage System IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) is a modern IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 IBM Elastic Storage System 5000 Did you know? implementation of software-defined storage. The IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 is the next IBM Elastic Storage System 5000 is the storage IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 is one of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 and IBM Elastic generation storage built for high-performance AI and system for data lakes with market-leading the simplest ways to deploy IBM Spectrum Storage System 5000 make it easier for you to deploy the hybrid cloud. It brings greater integration with performance, density and scalability. It combines Scale. Learn more about IBM Spectrum fast, highly scalable storage for AI and big data. With hybrid cloud and high-performance AI to increased the software-defined IBM Spectrum Scale storage Scale. the low latency and high performance NVMe storage data agility and drive faster business results. It is with IBM
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