This presentation describes various deployment options to configure IBM enterprise content management (ECM) FileNet® Content Manager components to use IBM Spectrum Scale™ (formerly known as IBM GPFS™) as back-end storage. It also describes various IBM Spectrum Scale value-added features with FileNet Content Manager
to facilitate an efficient and effective data-management solution.
Integration intervention: Get your apps and data up to speedKenneth Peeples
SOA has been the defacto methodology for enterprise application and process integration, because loosely coupled components and composite applications are more agile and efficient. The perfect solution? Not quite.
The data’s always been the problem. The most efficient and agile applications and services can be dragged down by the point-to-point data connections of a traditional data integration stack. Virtualized data services can eliminate the friction and get your applications up to speed.
In this webinar we'll show you how to (replay at http://www.redhat.com/en/about/events/integration-intervention-get-your-apps-and-data-speed):
-Quickly and easily create a virtual data services layer to plug data into your SOA infrastructure for an agile and efficient solution
-Derive more business value from your services.
Integration intervention: Get your apps and data up to speedKenneth Peeples
SOA has been the defacto methodology for enterprise application and process integration, because loosely coupled components and composite applications are more agile and efficient. The perfect solution? Not quite.
The data’s always been the problem. The most efficient and agile applications and services can be dragged down by the point-to-point data connections of a traditional data integration stack. Virtualized data services can eliminate the friction and get your applications up to speed.
In this webinar we'll show you how to (replay at http://www.redhat.com/en/about/events/integration-intervention-get-your-apps-and-data-speed):
-Quickly and easily create a virtual data services layer to plug data into your SOA infrastructure for an agile and efficient solution
-Derive more business value from your services.
Presentation given 7th March 2017, including recent withdrawal announcement about POWER7 servers, the new AIX website, AIX Enterprise Edition, PowerVC and Cloud, IBM Design Thinking, Project Monocle, IBM Systems PoV, my Insurance story where I took a surprise trip to Lisbon, Hybrid Cloud, IBM Power Systems Enterprise servers for Cloud, reference architectures with PowerVC and OpenStack, OpenPOWER Foundation, LC servers, MondoDB, GPU and NVLink, Deep Learning, PowerAI and POWER9
Informatica provides the market's leading data integration platform. Tested on nearly 500,000 combinations of platforms and applications, the data integration platform inter operates with the broadest possible range of disparate standards, systems, and applications. This unbiased and universal view makes Informatica unique in today's market as a leader in the data integration platform. It also makes Informatica the ideal strategic platform for companies looking to solve data integration issues of any size.
Mary Komor is the team leader of the IBM Streams Studio development team. In her presentation, Mary provides details on the Streams V4.1 integration with the IBM Governance Catalog (IGC).
Salesforce and SAP Integration with Informatica CloudDarren Cunningham
Webinar recorded in July 2010. Available for viewing at http://www.informaticacloud.com. Focuses on SAP and Salesforce.com application and data integration best practices
Toyota Financial Services Digital Transformation - Think 2019Slobodan Sipcic
Toyota Financial Services (TFS) and IBM partnered to develop Data & Integration Platform (D&IP) to be the hub around which all current and future TFS data sources, services, and processes interact. To that end IBM have architected and deployed a FOAK event-based data stream processing and streaming integration platform. The main components of the architecture include: Kubernetes, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Schema Registry, Jenkins, S3 and MongoDB. The platform is essential for realizing the TFS' strategic data stream processing and integration needs.
See tips to improve your Cognos (v10 and v11) environment. Topics include the new Interactive Performance Assistant (v11), hardware and server specifics, failover and high availability, high and low affinity requests, overview of services, Java heap settings, IIS configurations and non-Cognos related tuning. View the video recording and download this deck at: http://www.senturus.com/resources/cognos-analytics-performance-tuning/
Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
Presentation about BigData from a German Webcast: http://business-services.heise.de/it-management/big-data/beitrag/big-data-technologie-einsatzgebiete-datenschutz-160.html?source=IBM_12_2013_IT_Conn
The combination of FileNet and SharePoint enable delivery of a simple and secure means of remote access to project documents. Provide a collaboration space for project documents. The solution is intuitive, requiring minimal training.
Cloud integration for Oracle EBS and Salesforce CRM. Get started today with Informatica Cloud. More information available at http://www.InformaticaCloud.com
IMS on Mainframe host many Enterprise Critical assets, transactional and batch applications as well as data. Analytics solutions apply to both!
Contact me for more details
Presentation given 7th March 2017, including recent withdrawal announcement about POWER7 servers, the new AIX website, AIX Enterprise Edition, PowerVC and Cloud, IBM Design Thinking, Project Monocle, IBM Systems PoV, my Insurance story where I took a surprise trip to Lisbon, Hybrid Cloud, IBM Power Systems Enterprise servers for Cloud, reference architectures with PowerVC and OpenStack, OpenPOWER Foundation, LC servers, MondoDB, GPU and NVLink, Deep Learning, PowerAI and POWER9
Informatica provides the market's leading data integration platform. Tested on nearly 500,000 combinations of platforms and applications, the data integration platform inter operates with the broadest possible range of disparate standards, systems, and applications. This unbiased and universal view makes Informatica unique in today's market as a leader in the data integration platform. It also makes Informatica the ideal strategic platform for companies looking to solve data integration issues of any size.
Mary Komor is the team leader of the IBM Streams Studio development team. In her presentation, Mary provides details on the Streams V4.1 integration with the IBM Governance Catalog (IGC).
Salesforce and SAP Integration with Informatica CloudDarren Cunningham
Webinar recorded in July 2010. Available for viewing at http://www.informaticacloud.com. Focuses on SAP and Salesforce.com application and data integration best practices
Toyota Financial Services Digital Transformation - Think 2019Slobodan Sipcic
Toyota Financial Services (TFS) and IBM partnered to develop Data & Integration Platform (D&IP) to be the hub around which all current and future TFS data sources, services, and processes interact. To that end IBM have architected and deployed a FOAK event-based data stream processing and streaming integration platform. The main components of the architecture include: Kubernetes, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Schema Registry, Jenkins, S3 and MongoDB. The platform is essential for realizing the TFS' strategic data stream processing and integration needs.
See tips to improve your Cognos (v10 and v11) environment. Topics include the new Interactive Performance Assistant (v11), hardware and server specifics, failover and high availability, high and low affinity requests, overview of services, Java heap settings, IIS configurations and non-Cognos related tuning. View the video recording and download this deck at: http://www.senturus.com/resources/cognos-analytics-performance-tuning/
Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
Presentation about BigData from a German Webcast: http://business-services.heise.de/it-management/big-data/beitrag/big-data-technologie-einsatzgebiete-datenschutz-160.html?source=IBM_12_2013_IT_Conn
The combination of FileNet and SharePoint enable delivery of a simple and secure means of remote access to project documents. Provide a collaboration space for project documents. The solution is intuitive, requiring minimal training.
Cloud integration for Oracle EBS and Salesforce CRM. Get started today with Informatica Cloud. More information available at http://www.InformaticaCloud.com
IMS on Mainframe host many Enterprise Critical assets, transactional and batch applications as well as data. Analytics solutions apply to both!
Contact me for more details
IBM Streams V4.2 Submission Time Fusion and Configurationlisanl
Brad Fawcett, Queenie Ma, and Mary Komor are developers with IBM Streams. In their presentation, they cover the new Submission Time Fusion and Configuration support available in IBM Streams V4.2.
Non-Blocking Checkpointing for Consistent Regions in IBM Streams V4.2.lisanl
Fang Zheng is a developer with IBM Streams. In his presentation, Fang describes the enhancements related to consistent regions that are available in IBM Streams V4.2.
Samantha Chan is a community architect working in IBM Streams. In her presentation, Samantha covers a few of the getting started resources available to new users of IBM Streams V4.2.
Installation and Setup for IBM InfoSphere Streams V4.0lisanl
Laurie Williams is the Installation component lead on the InfoSphere Streams developement team. Her presentation describes the installation and setup of IBM InfoSphere Streams V4.0 in a multi-host environment.
View related presentations and recordings from the Streams V4.0 Developers Conference at:
https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/183353/ibm-infosphere-streams-40-developers-conference-on.html?smartspace=streamsdev
Hear from technical experts and state and regional leaders on the frontlines of developing policies, implementation strategies, financial tools and governance systems to meet the climate challenges of the 21st century. Groundbreaking federal and state policies demand an aggressive reduction of carbon and ozone emissions. Meeting these goals calls for a range of strategies from the transportation, building, energy, business and agriculture sectors. Learn about the short- and longer-term strategies to make our regions and communities healthier and more resilient, including the integration of transportation and land use planning as outlined in California’s SB 375. A timely conversation leading up to the UN climate talks in Paris this December.
Moderator: Deron Lovaas, State/Federal Policy & Practice Director, Urban Solutions Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC
Kathryn Zyla, Deputy Director, Georgetown Climate Center, Washington, DC
Hasan Ikhrata, Executive Director, Southern California Association of Governments, Los Angeles, California
Kate White, Deputy Secretary, Environmental Policy and Housing Coordination, California State Transportation Agency, Sacramento, California
BRT 101: Design, Operations and Economic Impact by Andrew GuthrieRail~Volution
Bus rapid transit (BRT) adds an intermediate mode to your transit portfolio. By combining good design, efficient operations and appropriate policies, BRT can support good urban development. How does BRT create better value than fixed-route service? How can you use BRT in existing and planned transit systems? Learn about different types of BRT, including design, operations and economic impact. Which will create the most value for your community? How can you build the right BRT to create a corridor of communities? How can you best leverage your BRT investment?. Go deep with experienced BRT experts.
Moderator: Vicky Smith, Transit Engineering Manager, Oregon Region, David Evans and Associates, Inc, Portland, Oregon
James McGrath, AIA, ASLA, LEED AP, Urban Designer, CH2M, Portland, Oregon
Christina Morrison, Senior Planner, BRT/Small Starts Project Office, Metro Transit, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Andrew Guthrie, Research Fellow, Regional Planning and Policy Area, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
RV 2015: How to Start: Project Funding Lessons and Strategies by Mark Linsenm...Rail~Volution
Where do you go for millions -- or billions -- of dollars? Securing federal and local funding for big transit projects can be overwhelming. Where do you even begin? Hear from leading strategists in three regions that found their pot of gold: Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Washington's Maryland suburbs have billions of dollars of new rail projects, and their regions are reaping the benefits. Specially geared to regions who are just beginning to think about project funding, hear strategies for leveraging changes in agency governance, raising local revenue and maximizing its immediate impact, attracting federal investments, and using private investment to reduce upfront costs and achieve value over time.
Moderator: Sean Libberton, Principal, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc., Washington, DC
Henry Kay, Director, Transportation Planning, RK&K, Baltimore, Maryland
Hal Johnson, AICP, Manager of Project Development, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mark Linsenmayer, AICP, Director, Countywide Planning & Development, Metro, Los Angeles, California
RV 2015: Guerrilla Placemaking by Josh GhaffariRail~Volution
What roles do pop-up art, parklets and other guerilla strategies play in turning communities into great places? Do these efforts support, influence or hinder the "officially sanctioned" placemaking actions? What if these efforts are, in fact, officially sanctioned? Share your story and get inspired by ideas and actions from other attendees while you eat.
Facilitators: Josh Ghaffari, Community and Facilities Planner, Government of the District of Columbia; New Rail~Volutionaries Leadership Committee, Washington, DC
Janet Gonzalez, Transportation Sustainability Director, HDR, Chicago, Illinois
RV 2015: Back to the Future: Considering Health (Again) in Project Developmen...Rail~Volution
Two centuries ago, the synergies between the development of cities and public health were evident -- even lifesaving: Better infrastructure prevented infectious diseases. Land use ordinances protected citizens from hazardous industrial exposures. During the 20th century, the disciplines drifted apart. Today health has, once again, become an extremely important element in building livable communities. How can you measure how your project impacts the health of a community? Health impact assessments (HIAs) are innovative tools. Learn how to incorporate an HIA into your existing decision-making processes, increase interdepartmental collaboration and strengthen community engagement initiatives. In addition, gain usable experience from two HIA case studies in Florida and Minnesota: a transit alternatives analysis and a station area plan.
Moderator: Thomas Waldron, Transit Market Sector Director, HDR, New York, New York
Lyssa Leitner, Transportation Planner, Washington County, Stillwater, Minnesota
Gabriella Arismendi, Transportation Planner, MetroPlan, Orlando, Florida
Michael Musso, Senior Project Manager and Risk Assessor, HDR, Mahwah, New Jersey
Big Lab Problems Solved with Spectrum Scale: Innovations for the Coral Programinside-BigData.com
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC16, Sven Oehme Chief Research Strategist, IBM, presents "Big Lab Problems Solved with Spectrum Scale: Innovations for the Coral Program."
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-g52
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Learn how to Add Memory, Improve Performance, and Lower Costs with IBM MAX5 Technology. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Workload Centric Scale-Out Storage for Next Generation DatacenterCloudian
For performance workloads, SolidFire provides a scale-out all-flash storage platform designed
to deliver guaranteed storage performance to thousands of application workloads side-by-side,
allowing performance workload consolidation under a single storage platform. The SolidFire system
can be combined together over standard networking technologies in clusters ranging from 4 to 100
nodes, providing high performance capacity from 35TB to 3.4PB, and can deliver between 200,000
and 7.5M guaranteed IOPS to more than 100,000 volumes / applications within a single cluster.
SSIP Award Talk - Distinguished Recognition
June 14, 2023
https://issip.org/issip-2023-excellence-in-service-innovation-awards/
Innovation: Helping you turn your sustainability strategy into action
Summary: IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 was designed, developed, and manufactured for end-to-end sustainability, all without compromising security, performance, or response time. Optimized to scale capacity up to 20 billion web transactions per day while reducing energy consumption and the physical and CO2 footprints.
Organization: IBM (@IBM)
Speaker: Nada Santiago (LI) (DC)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nada-santiago/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UZ62AyZbSC4
IBM Flex System offers a brand new platform for creating solutions to address emerging market applications, such as Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, and Smarter Planet. In this paper, we described how to create a custom private cloud configuration that uses Flex System. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Learn about Positioning IBM Flex System 16 Gb Fibre Channel Fabric for Storage-Intensive Enterprise Workloads. This IBM Redpaper discusses server performance imbalance that can be found in typical application environments and how to address this issue with the 16 Gb Fibre Channel technology to provide required levels of performance and availability for the storage-intensive applications. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
The Future of Data Warehousing, Data Science and Machine LearningModusOptimum
Watch the on-demand recording here:
https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1632072/803744C924E8BFD688BD117C6B4B949B
Evolution of Big Data and the Role of Analytics | Hybrid Data Management
IBM, Driving the future Hybrid Data Warehouse with IBM Integrated Analytics System.
IBM Spectrum NAS is our latest Software Defined Storage for SMB and NFS protocol-based storage. This session shows how it is designed and architected, and how to deploy it in less than one day.
Safeguarded Copy function that is available with IBM® Spectrum Virtualize software Version
8.4.2 supports the ability to create cyber-resilient point-in-time copies of volumes that cannot
be changed or deleted through user errors, malicious actions, or ransomware attacks. The
system integrates with IBM Copy Services Manager to provide automated backup copies and
data recovery.
This IBM Redpaper publication introduces the features and functions of Safeguarded Copy
function by using several examples.
This document is aimed at pre-sales and post-sales technical support and storage
administrators.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...
IBM Spectrum Scale ECM - Winning Combination
1. IBM Spectrum Scale and ECM FileNet Content Manager
– A Winning Combination
Sandeep R. Patil, Atul Gore, Sasikanth Eda, Michael Bordash,
Sanjay K. Sudam, Sathish Subramanyam
2. Agenda
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1. Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale
2. Introduction to IBM ECM FileNet Content Manager
3. Deployment Topologies of ECM FileNet with Spectrum Scale (POSIX,
SMB / NFS, Object Interface)
4. Value Added Features Configuration (Automated ILM, File storage and
Temperature based Tiering, Data Encryption, Data Compression, native RAID)
5. Case study (High Level Requirements, Solution)
3. Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale
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IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution. It
provides world-class storage management with extreme scalability, flash accelerated performance, and
automatic policy-based storage that has tiers of flash through disk to tape.
IBM Spectrum Scale Version 4.2 provides highly differentiated value:
- Virtually limitless scaling to nine quintillion files and yottabytes of data.
- High performance over 400 GBps, and simultaneous access to a common set of shared data.
- Global data access across geographic distances and unreliable WAN connections.
- Protects data from most security breaches, unauthorized access, or being lost, stolen, or improperly
discarded with native file encryption for data at rest and secure erase.
- Multi-site support connecting local IBM Spectrum Scale cluster to remote clusters to provide disaster
recovery configurations.
…. many more …
5. Introduction to IBM ECM FileNet Content Manager
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IBM enterprise content management (ECM) high-value solutions help companies transform the way they
do business by enabling companies to put content in motion by capturing, activating, socializing,
analyzing, and governing it throughout the entire lifecycle.
- The IBM FileNet Content Manager Platform provides a breadth and depth of core functionality,
enabling enterprise solutions.
- FileNet Content Manager provides content, security, and storage.
- FileNet Business Process Manager supplies workflows, decision-making, and productivity.
- FileNet Content Manager helps organizations optimize processes, shorten production times, and
improve productivity and accuracy. It includes process design and simulation tools, electronic forms,
application development frameworks, and monitoring and reporting tools.
… many more …
6. Deployment Topologies of ECM FileNet with IBM Spectrum Scale
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IBM Spectrum Scale is based on software-defined storage principals and provides various cluster
topologies.
An administrator can leverage the access protocols offered by IBM Spectrum Scale topologies for
deploying ECM FileNet Content Manager.
1. ECM FileNet deployment using Spectrum Scale POSIX Interface
2. ECM FileNet deployment using Spectrum Scale NFS / SMB Interface
3. ECM FileNet deployment using Spectrum Scale Object Interface
7. Deployment Topologies: POSIX Interface
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* Basic FileNet Content Manager platform (including Content Platform Engine, Application Engine,
Database: IBM DB2®) configured to use IBM Spectrum Scale POSIX interface.
8. Deployment Topologies: NFS / SMB Interface
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* Basic FileNet Content Manager platform (including Content Platform Engine, Application Engine,
Database: IBM DB2®) configured to use IBM Spectrum Scale NFS / SMB interface.
9. Deployment Topologies: Object Interface
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* Basic FileNet Content Manager platform (including Content Platform Engine, Application Engine,
Database: IBM DB2®) configured to use IBM Spectrum Scale Object interface.
10. Value Added Features Configuration: Automated ILM Policy
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* Demonstrates a basic ILM policy that if the file last access time is younger than a predetermined
time then all other files are automatically migrated to gold pool solid-state drives (SSD); files that do
not fall under this condition are migrated to lower tiers accordingly.
11. Value Added Features Configuration: FILE_HEAT based Migration
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* Demonstrates a basic ILM policy (file migration rules) that automatically migrates to gold storage pool
(SSD disks) if the file’s heat is X% compared with other files. Files not falling under this condition are
migrated to lower tiers accordingly.
12. Value Added Features Configuration: Encryption at Rest (Storage layer)
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* Storage layer encryption results in relatively faster processing of documents due to the encryption
job offloaded to the storage controller as opposed to doing encryption at the application layer.
13. Value Added Features Configuration: Compression, Native RAID
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Data Compression:
IBM Spectrum Scale features policy-driven compression to reduce the size of data at rest. Intended
primarily for cold data, compression is a background task that occurs after an initial write operation. This
allows ECM FileNet to have its content seamlessly compressed at the back end, thus improving the
overall cost effectiveness of the solution.
Data integrity using native RAID:
IBM Spectrum Scale features with native software RAID, which is available with the IBM Elastic Storage
Server (ESS). IBM Spectrum Scale native RAID software capability permits to actively manage all RAID
functionality formerly accomplished by a hardware disk controller. When ECM is hosted over ESS, the
deployment ensures data integrity with enhanced performance and scalability.
14. Case Study: A Telecommunications Company Challenge
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Ingest of customer data
from multiple states
Data ingest volume
50-70 GB per day
Need for a
Extremely high
Performing
Scalable
Filesystem
Customer base spread across 23 US states
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg
15. Case Study: High Level Requirements
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A largest telecom service provider company has customer base throughout the country, spread across a
total of 23 US states. The customer base was hovering at approximately 85 - 90 million and is expected
to grew to 160 million.
- Each of these customers submits a set of documents when registering for the services provided by the
telecom service provider.
- The government authority needed and continues to need a mechanism to access and audit this data on
occasion; the query and access to this data can go as far back in time as 15 years.
- The data is required to be stored separately, per state of the country, in an ever-increasing scalable
platform.
- The system must also be designed to handle the load of daily ingestion of customer data, amounting to
approximately 50 - 70 GB per day. Additionally, the client also has a backlog of approximately 80 TB or
more of customer data to be loaded in the system.
16. Case Study: Solution
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IBM FileNet met the customer requirements because of the following benefits:
- Consists of components such as Content Platform Engine, which is a FileNet Content Manager
component that is designed to handle the heavy demands of a large enterprise.
- Can manage enterprise-wide workflow objects, custom objects, and documents by offering powerful
and easy-to-use administration tools.
-The tools help the administrator easily create and manage the classes, properties, storage, and
metadata that form the foundation of an ECM system.
17. Case Study: Solution
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In this deployment, customer identification data was stored as metadata in a relational database engine;
the other customer data were stored in file systems in an encrypted format.
- Specifically for handling the large load of millions of files, IBM Spectrum Scale was chosen to work with
FileNet.
- IBM Spectrum Scale along with FileNet provided the much required scalable, enterprise class
document management solution, with the ability to easily extend to petabytes, meet the on-demand
access to consumer data within a stipulated period of time, and provide the required encryption to
customer data.
- For this deployment, which is now over 500 TB and growing, the enterprise-level content management
solution based on FileNet and IBM Spectrum Scale, proved to be a winning combination that
successfully met all the customer requirements.
19. References
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- Redpaper: IBM Spectrum Scale and ECM FileNet Content Manager Are a Winning Combination: Deployment
Variations and Value-added Features
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/redp5239.html?Open
- IBM Spectrum Scale resources
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale/resources.html
- IBM Spectrum Scale in the IBM Knowledge Center
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKCN/gpfs_welcome.html
- IBM Spectrum Scale Overview and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
http://ibm.co/1IKO6PN
- IBM ECM resources
https://ibm.biz/BdXyh8
- IBM FileNet P8 Platform and Architecture, SG24-7667
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247667.html?Open
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21. IBM Spectrum Scale and ECM FileNet Content Manager
– A Winning Combination