IBM Spectrum Storage was introduced in February 2015 as a family of optimized software-defined storage solutions. It provides unified analytics-driven management for any storage, advanced data placement to maximize performance and efficiency, and deployment flexibility. Over the last 6 months, IBM Spectrum Storage has added several new capabilities including management, protection, archiving, virtualization, acceleration, and scaling solutions. It offers comprehensive data protection with dedupe that can reduce backup infrastructure costs by up to 53%.