The document talks about IBM's leadership in software-defined storage, emphasizing the capabilities and products within the IBM Spectrum Storage family. It outlines the advantages of software-defined environments, including rapid innovation, vendor interoperability, and open modular design. Additionally, it offers insights into IBM's solutions for storage management, cloud integration, and data efficiency across various platforms.

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Software Defined Storage –
Technical Overview
Why? What? How?
Tony Pearson
Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist
IBM Corporation

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Abstract
IBM is ranked #1 in
Software Defined Storage.
Recent announcements
about the IBM Spectrum
Storage family makes the
IBM portfolio even more
impressive.
Learn why companies are
excited about Software
Defined Environments; what
storage products and
solutions IBM has to offer
and how they are deployed.
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This week with Tony Pearson
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Day Time Topic
Monday 10:30am Software Defined Storage -- Why? What? How? (repeats Tuesday)
03:00pm IBM's Cloud Storage Options (repeats Wednesday)
04:30pm Data Footprint Reduction – Understanding IBM Storage Efficiency Options
Tuesday 10:30am Software Defined Storage -- Why? What? How?
12:30pm What Is Big Data? Architectures and Practical Use Cases
01:45pm IBM Smarter Storage Strategy (repeats Wednesday)
Wednesday 09:00am New Generation of Storage Tiering: Less Management Lower Costs and
Increased Performance
10:30am IBM Smarter Storage Strategy
12:30pm IBM's Cloud Storage Options
01:45pm IBM Spectrum Scale (Elastic Storage) Offerings
Thursday 12:30pm The Pendulum Swings Back -- Understanding Converged and
Hyperconverged Environments
05:45pm Storage Meet the Experts
Friday 09:00am IBM Spectrum Storage Integration with OpenStack

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How is Software Defined Environment different?
Applications…
Business Requirements
Infrastructure…
Servers, Storage, Networks
Optimize Your ResourcesOptimize Your Resources
Automate Your WorkloadsAutomate Your Workloads
Simplified
Management
Simplified
Management
ComputeCompute StorageStorage NetworkNetwork
APIs
Orchestration
Service Levels
Standard Interfaces
Provisioning
Virtualization
Control
Plane
Data
Plane
Facilities
System
Admin
Storage
Admin
Application
Owner
Network
Admin
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Control Plane vs. Data Plane
Data Plane
Control Plane
Resource Pools
and Quotas Quality of Service (QoS)
Service Catalog
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OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only
IBM is a platinum sponsor of
OpenStack Foundation
OpenStack open source code
can manage IBM compute,
network and storage resources
OpenStack supports x86, POWER
Systems and z System mainframe
IBM offers Cinder interfaces on
most of its major storage products
and Swift interfaces for object
access
IBM Cloud is based on OpenStack
open source code, with value-
added proprietary features from
IBM
IBM Cloud Manager with
OpenStack and IBM Cloud
Orchestrator support a variety of
server hypervisors
IBM Spectrum Control™ provide
reporting, provisioning, trouble
shooting and chargeback
capabilities
VMware and Microsoft are
entirely proprietary, but have a
large market share for x86-based
server infrastructure
IBM was VMware’s first OEM and
joint development partner (since
1998) IBM Global Services is one
of VMware’s largest customers
IBM and Microsoft agreement to
offer SQL Server and .NET on
IBM Cloud and IBM software on
Microsoft Azure
“Some assembly required” Enterprise-ready out of the box
x86, POWER systems and z System mainframe Concerns about vendor lock-in
IBM is Focused on these
Software Defined Environments
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#3 – Rapid Innovation
Large community effort enables
faster developmental effort
#2 – Vendor
Interoperability
High quality, multi-vendor & user
community = freedom from lock-in
#1 – Open, Modular
Design
Flexible architecture with open
components enables options
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
IBM led the formation of the OpenStack Foundation
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Software Defined Control and Deployment
Administrator-
Controlled Software-Controlled
How is it controlled?
• ProtecTIER appliance
and gateway
• LTFS software with
LTO tape drives
• IBM Spectrum
Storage™ family
• XIV storage system
• Elastic Storage
Server
Howisitdeployed?
Industry-Standard
Hardware
• Software
• Pre-built systems
• Cloud services
• FlashSystem 900
• Enterprise Tape drives
and libraries
• FlashSystem V9000
• SVC/Storwize with
Intel QuickAssist
• DS8000
Specialized Hardware
• Co-processors
• ASICs, FPGAs
• Adapters
I II
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Different Clients have a Different Focus
Cloud and
Managed Service
Providers
• Focus on industry-standard x86 and OpenPOWER
servers that can be quickly re-purposed
• Offer services based on advanced software
that can be deployed as needed on existing
industry-standard equipment
• Predictable, consistent performance
Focus:
Industry-standard HW
Focus:
Software
Controls
• Focus on Software APIs to simplify,
automate and control existing investments
• Use specialized hardware to provide optimal
performance for mission-critical applications
Data Centers
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Get It Your Way: Software, Cloud Service or Pre-built System
Proven Technology, Open Standards, Modular Adoption
More than $ 1 Billion Investment over next 5 years
Announcing IBM Spectrum Storage™ family
Management
Insight
Spectrum Control™
Governance
Spectrum Protect™
Block File and Object
Flexibility
Spectrum Accelerate™
Utilization
Spectrum Virtualize™
Elasticity
Spectrum Scale™
Placement
Spectrum Archive™
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11. IBM Spectrum Storage™ family
Pre-built Systems Software Cloud Service
IBM Spectrum Control
Based on technology from Tivoli Storage Productivity
Center, FlashCopy Manager, Storage Analytics Engine
IBM Spectrum
Control Storage
Insights (beta)
IBM Spectrum Protect
Based on technology from Tivoli Storage Manager Unified
Backup and Recovery Suite
IBM SmartCloud
Managed Backup
and Archive
XIV Storage
System
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Based on technology from XIV
SAN Volume
Controller (SVC),
Storwize,
FlashSystem
V9000
IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Not sold separately, installed on pre-built systems
Elastic Storage
Server,
Storwize V7000
Unified
IBM Spectrum Scale
Based on technology from GPFS
IBM SoftLayer
Elastic Storage
IBM Spectrum Archive
Based on technology from LTFS
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Exploring IBM Software Defined Storage Capabilities
IBM Spectrum Storage™ family
IBM Spectrum
Accelerate™
• Offers hot-spot free
block-level access
across internal flash
and disk resources
• Thin provisioning,
Space-efficient
Snapshots and Remote
Mirroring capability
• Based on technology
from XIV Storage
System
IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
• Offers storage
virtualization of over 300
different flash and disk
systems
• Thin provisioning, Real-
time Compression (RtC),
FlashCopy and Remote
Mirroring capability
• Based on technology
from SAN Volume
Controller and Storwize
family of products
Block
Flexibility
Spectrum Accelerate™
Utilization
Spectrum Virtualize™
Software Defined Environment
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Software Defined Storage – Block level Access
XIV
FICON
z/OS
z/TPF
z/VSE
z/VM
Linux on z
FCP
Linux
Windows
UNIX
VMware
…
iSCSI
Linux
Windows
UNIX
VMware
…
LAN
InfiniBand
DS8000
FlashSystem
900
Software Defined Environment
OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only
Accelerate
IBM Spectrum
Accelerate™
SAN
* Requires IBM Spectrum Control Base edition
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XIV – Radical Simplicity but with Enterprise-Class features
Radical simplicity
• Breakthrough GUI, CLI and Mobile
App
• OpenStack, IBM Cloud, VMware,
Microsoft and RESTful APIs
Low-touch management
• No RAID groups
• Extreme ease of use across all
functionality
• Create volume, resize volume,
take snapshot, mirror volume
Self Tuning / Self Healing
• Ultra fast rebuild times
• No manual performance
optimization
• No hotspots, no tuning
• Not even when adding capacity!
Enterprise-class
Software features
• QoS performance classes
• Thin provisioning and space
reclamation
• IBM Hyper-Scale consistency
and mobility
• Advanced reporting
• Data at rest encryption
• Performance acceleration with
Flash cache
• Snapshots and remote
mirroring
• Data migration from other disk
systems
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Modules
What’s Different about Spectrum Accelerate?
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12 SED
1, 2, 3, 4, 6 TB
Optional SSD
500, 800 GB
6 cores
24-48 GB RAM
FCP Ethernet IB
FCP Ethernet IB
6-15
Modules
Host SAN
Hyper-Scale
Host iSCSI
+ Mgmt
Inter
node
6-12 HDD
1, 2, 3, 4 TB
Optional SSD
500-800 GB
4-16 cores
32-48 GB RAM
VMware ESXi 5.5
Ethernet
Ethernet
Host iSCSI
+ Inter-node
+ Management
Accelerate

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…
…
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
on customer-choice HW
IBM
XIV
Gen 3
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
running on Softlayer
Unified Management Experience
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• Remote Office, Branch Office. Provide high availability
storage to smaller or distributed organizations such as
banks and schools through disaster recovery and other
capabilities, using less expensive hardware.
• Flexible deployment. Deploy test/dev or ad-hoc project
environments and later repurpose hardware for other
needs. Mix online transaction processing and new
applications like analytics. Store cold/archive data on
lower-cost storage. Deliver enterprise capabilities to
different tiers.
• Disaster recovery. Mirror to the cloud or to a data center
server running IBM Spectrum Accelerate. Use powerful
XIV snapshots to execute backup to on-premise servers

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Software Defined Storage - Virtualization
XIV
DS8000 FlashSystem 900
Other
IBM and
non-IBM
Flash/Disk
systems
Storage Hypervisor
SVC, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000
Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
FCP
z/VSE
z/VM
Linux
Windows
UNIX
VMware
…
iSCSI
Linux
Windows
UNIX
VMware
…
SAN TCP/IP
FCoE
Linux
Windows
UNIX
VMware
…
Virtualize
Software Defined Environment
OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only
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18. Virtualize Your Infrastructure
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Virtual Server
Infrastructure
Virtual Storage Infrastructure
Built with IBM Spectrum
Virtualize™Storage Hypervisor
Midrange and Entry-Level
Storwize
IBM Spectrum
Control™
Enterprise
SAN Volume Controller
Flash
FlashSystem V9000
Virtualize
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I/O Group 0 I/O Group 3…
Volumes:
Belong to one or more I/O Groups
Volume Size 16 MB to 256 TB
Dynamically Expandable
Thin-Provisioned, Compressed
Cluster:
1-4 Node-pairs (I/O Groups)
Cache, Copy Services
Storage Pools:
Managed Disks from 256 flash
and disk systems
Assign LUNs to Storage Pools
Define Extent size (16MB to 8GB)
Gold Silver Bronze
Storage Hypervisor – Terminology
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Exploring IBM Software Defined Storage Capabilities
IBM Spectrum Storage™ family
Management
Insight
Spectrum Control™
Governance
Spectrum Protect™
IBM Spectrum Control™
• Offers Application
programming interfaces
(API) for OpenStack,
IBM Cloud and x86-only
environments like
VMware and Microsoft
• Based on technology
from IBM SmartCloud
Virtual Storage Center,
IBM Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center
IBM Spectrum Protect™
• Offers Backup, Archive
and HSM capabilities
• Extended to support
Virtual and Cloud
environments
• Based on technology
from IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Unified Backup
and Recovery Suite
Software Defined Environment
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A centralized server system that consolidates a range of IBM storage provisioning,
automation and monitoring solutions through a unified server platform
VASA
VWC
<future plugin>
Common
Services
(Authentication,
High availability,
Configuration storage,
Etc.)
FlashSystem
Mgmt
DS8000
Mgmt
SVC Mgmt
Software Defined
Environment
IBM Spectrum Control Base Storage Arrays
3rd Party
Mgmt
What is IBM Spectrum Control Base edition?
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IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights (Beta)
Future capability
IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights is available now as a public beta
Visit https://www-304.ibm.com/software/support/trial/cst/forms/nomination.wss?id=5993
Overview
SoftLayer cloud-based storage and data reporting provides key insights
into usage without need for major software deployment
Key Capabilities
Identify and categorize storage assets
View performance history for application workloads
Reclaim unused / wasted storage space
Optimize data placement within the infrastructure
Benefits
Helps reduce storage and administrative costs
Simplified management and deployment
Provides deep understanding of storage and data usage
Enables capacity planning and performance management
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Efficiently protect hybrid
environments
• Flexible retention policies for source and target
• Up to 10x improvement in deduplication (V6 vs V7)
• Heterogeneous, application aware snapshot support
• Automatic failover for client recovery
• Automatic repair of damaged files or volumes
Fast & flexible recovery of VMs • Multiple recovery options using single-source backup
• Instantly access or recover VMs and perform file level restores
• Granular protection and recovery (datastore/image/volume/file)
• Incremental forever for VMware and Hyper-V
• Fully integrated recovery experience in vSphere
Data Protection Simplification • Prescriptive blueprints for deployment
• Centralized visibility and control
• Mid Market packaging and pricing
• Front End capacity licensing
• TSM portal for cloud deployment and management
IBM Spectrum Protect™ is the
performance and scalability leader
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Exploring IBM Software Defined Storage Capabilities
IBM Spectrum Storage™ family
IBM Spectrum Scale™
• Offers a global name
space of file and object
access storage
• Space-efficient
snapshots, Information
Lifecycle management
(ILM), Active File
Management (AFM)
and remote mirroring
• Based on technology
from IBM General
Parallel File System
(GPFS)
IBM Spectrum Archive™
• Extends IBM Spectrum
Scale™ to IBM tape
libraries, with LTO or
Enterprise tape drives
• Drastically lowers the
cost for long-term data
retention
• Based on technology
from IBM Linear Tape
File System (LTFS)
Software Defined Environment
File and Object
Elasticity
Spectrum Scale™
Placement
Spectrum Archive™
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Global Namespace for Files and Objects
XIV
DS8000 FlashSystem
Storage Hypervisor
Elastic Storage
POSIX
Windows
Linux
AIX
NFS
CIFS
FTP
SCP
HTTPS
Object
OpenStack
Swift,
Amazon S3
Hadoop
IBM Spectrum
Scale™
IBM Spectrum Scale™,
Elastic Storage Server,
Storwize V7000 Unified
SVC, FlashSystem V9000,
Storwize
Other
IBM and
non-IBM
Flash/Disk
systems
Software Defined Environment
OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only
Internal and
Direct Attach
Storage
JBOF/JBOD
FPO,
RAID
Scale
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The Problem: Islands of SAN, File and Object level data
SAN-level Storage
OS-specific file systems on
direct -attach or SAN-based
devices
Sharing requires file transfers
Provides “Context” for
Analytics of Social and Mobile
transactions
File-level Storage
NAS encourages sharing
across social networks
Desire for file sync-and-
share across desktops and
mobile
HDFS requires transfer
(ingest) from other sourcesJFS2
EXT4
NTFS
CIFS
HDFS
NFS
Object-level Storage
New Web and Mobile apps
prefer Object-level access
Amazon S3
OpenStack
Swift
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IBM Spectrum Scale™ –
Software, Systems or Cloud Services
Software
• Install software on
your own choice of
Industry standard x86
or POWER servers
Pre-built Systems
• Elastic Storage Server
with Erasure Coding
• Storwize V7000 Unified
Cloud Services
• Spectrum Scale can
be deployed on any
Cloud
Scale
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Spectrum Scale – Flexible File and Object Storage
FS1
FS256. . .Exabyte-Scale,
Global
Namespace
One big file system or
divide into as many as
256 smaller file systems
Each file system
can be further
divided into fileset
containers
Flash and Disk LUNs
are called Network
Shared Disks (NSD) Metadata can be separated
to its own Pool or
intermixed with data
Files can be
migrated to Tape
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IBM Spectrum Scale™ – More than just a file system!
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ROBO
Other NFS
Other
Datacenters
Scale
Active File
Management
(AFM) caches
data to where it is
needed, can be
used to migrate
from other NFS
Information Lifecycle
Management (ILM)
moves data across tiers of
flash and disk
Hierarchical Storage
Management (HSM)
migrates infrequently
accessed files to tape,
automatically recalls back
when accessed
Local Read-Only Cache
(LROC) caches the busiest
blocks of files on local flash
Disaster Recovery
(DR) asynchronously
mirrors data to remote
locations
Migrate/Recall Tape
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Hadoop Analytics – HDFS vs IBM Spectrum Scale™
HDFS
Save
Results
Discard
rest
IBM Hadoop
Connector allows
Map/Reduce
programs to process
data without
application changes
IBM Spectrum Scale
Application data
stored on IBM
Spectrum Scale
is readily
available for
analytics
Save
Results
JFS2
NTFS
EXT4
Data Sources
mashup of structured and unstructured data
from a variety of sources
Actionable Insights
Provides answers to the
Who, What, Where, When,
Why and How
Business Intelligence
& Predictive Analytics
> Competitive Advantages
> New Threats and Fraud
> Changing Needs
and Forecasting
> And More!
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Twin-tailed
Secret
Sauce
IBM Spectrum Scale™ – Pre-Built Systems
NSD Clients
Windows, Linux
and AIX servers
External Clients
Access files via
NFS, CIFS, HTTPS,
SCP, FTP protocols
Storwize V7000
Unified
“NAS
appliance”Twin-tailed
Elastic
Storage
Server
“Building
block”
TCP/IP Network
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Global Namespace extends to
Linear Tape File System (LTFS)
XIV
DS8000 FlashSystem
Storage Hypervisor Internal,
Direct
Attach
Flash
JBOD
FPO,
RAID
Elastic Storage
POSIX
Windows
Linux
AIX
NFS
CIFS
FTP
SCP
HTTPS
Object
OpenStack
Swift,
Amazon S3
Hadoop
IBM Spectrum
Scale™
IBM
Spectrum
Archive™
Single Drive
Library
IBM Spectrum Scale™,
Elastic Storage Server,
Storwize V7000 Unified
SVC, FlashSystem V9000,
Storwize, IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
Other
IBM and
non-IBM
Flash/Disk
systems
Software Defined Environment
OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only
Enterprise
LTFS
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IBM Spectrum Scale – Tape options
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• For Spectrum Protect or HPSS
• HSM client is installed on
Spectrum Scale cluster
• Spectrum Scale sends
migrations copy to HSM sever
• HSM Server stores data in
proprietary format
IBM Spectrum Protect IBM Spectrum Archive
Spectrum Archive is
installed on select NSD
servers of Spectrum Scale
cluster
Spectrum Archive migrates
data directly to LTFS-format
tape
Spectrum Scale
Cluster
SAN
Spectrum Scale
Cluster
SAN
HSM
Client
HSM Server
IBM Spectrum
Protect (and HPSS)
support a variety of
flash, disk, virtual
and physical tape
libraries, and even
optical libraries
IBM Spectrum
Archive eliminates a
need for a TSM
server, but is limited
to LTFS-enabled
tape libraries
DB
LTFS
HSM
Spectrum
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IBM Spectrum Archive™ Overview
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IBM Spectrum Archive enables IBM tape libraries to read/write
LTFS-format tapes in an IBM Spectrum Scale™ environment
• Based on the integration of Spectrum Scale™ and LTFS format
• Supports Spectrum-enabled libraries
and drives
•TS4500 and TS3500 Enterprise libraries
•TS3310, TS3200, TS3100, TS2900 libraries
•TS1140 (or higher) Enterprise Drive
•LTO5 (or higher) Ultrium drive
• Integrated functionality with
Spectrum Scale
•Supports Policy based migrations
•Seamless DMAPI usage
•Data replication to multiple pools
• Supports scale-out for capacity and I/O
•Seamless cache controls between
Spectrum Archive nodes
•Tape drive performance balancing
•Multiple node performance balancing
Los Angeles London Tokyo
Clients
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Global Namespace
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IBM Spectrum Scale™ brings it all together
Global Name Space
IBM Spectrum
Scale™ replaces
SAN-based file
systems
Replaces NTFS, EXT4,
JFS2 and other POSIX
file systems
Used by over 200 of the
top 500 supercomputers
No file transfers
required between
different OS
Can be used with
everything from
databases to video
streaming
For x86, POWER and
z System servers
Secure with
Data-at-rest encryption
IBM Spectrum Scale™ replaces HDFS and NAS file storage
Full Hadoop interfaces for Map/Reduce analytics processing
No transfer or ingest required as the data is already there
Fully protected with Backup Software
File-level access support for NFS, CIFS, FTP, SCP and HTTPS
Supports File Sync-and-Share
via OwnCloud or Funambol
IBM Spectrum
Scale™ offers
Object access
Object-level access
based on OpenStack
Swift driver and
Amazon S3 APIs
IBM Spectrum Scale™
supports all media
Spans flash, disk and tape
media
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IBM Software Defined Storage
Data Plane
IBM Software Defined Storage
Control Plane
IBM for Software Defined Storage
Why?
• Reduces manual effort to provision storage
• Increase flexibility by using Industry-standard
hardware
• Can reduce cost of deploying enterprise-class
features for your datacenter
What?
• IBM Spectrum Storage™ family, a set of
Software Defined Storage products
How?
• Start with virtualizing with IBM Storage
Hypervisors, built with IBM Spectrum
Virtualize
• Deploy Spectrum Accelerate for ROBO and
Test/Dev environments
• Install Spectrum Scale for your volume, file
and object requirements
Scale
Control Protect
IBM ranked #1 in Software
Defined Storage with
40% market share in 2014
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• Tucson, Arizona is home for
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design and development
• IBM Tucson Executive
Briefing Center offers:
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• Product demonstrations
• Solution workshops
• Take a video tour!
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About the Speaker
Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior managing consultant for the IBM System Storage™ product line. Tony joined
IBM Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has been there ever since. In his current role, Tony presents briefings
on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, and topics related to Cloud, Analytics and Social media. He
interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads client workshops to help clients with strategic planning for
IBM’s integrated set of storage software, hardware and virtualization products.
Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners
every week. This blog was rated one of the top 10 blogs for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine and #1
most read IBM blog on IBM’s developerWorks. The blog has been published into a series of books, Inside System Storage:
Volumes I through V.
Over the years, Tony has worked in development, marketing and consulting positions for various storage hardware and
software products. Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Arizona. Tony holds 19 IBM patents for inventions on storage hardware and
software products.
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tpearson@us.ibm.com
Tony Pearson
Master Inventor,
Senior IT Specialist
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