IBM Spectrum Storage is a family of storage management and optimization software solutions that help accelerate, optimize, virtualize and streamline storage environments. The document introduces IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, which provides unlimited access to all IBM Spectrum Storage software with licensing on a per-TB basis. This allows pricing to be predictable as capacity grows. The suite is suited for organizations starting with software-defined storage as well as those expanding existing infrastructures.
IBM released the A9000/R on April 27th 2016. This new platform further enhances the IBM FlashSystems portfolio and gives IBM storage customers even more choices to build even greater solutions!
IBM released the A9000/R on April 27th 2016. This new platform further enhances the IBM FlashSystems portfolio and gives IBM storage customers even more choices to build even greater solutions!
Tecnología IBM FlashCore
La tecnología IBM FlashCore™ hace referencia a las innovaciones de IBM que permiten al almacenamiento FlashSystem ofrecer el máximo rendimiento, IBM MicroLatency™, fiabilidad empresarial y una amplia gama de eficiencias de costes y operativas. Estas tecnologías e innovaciones se representan en la arquitectura acelerada por hardware FlashCore, los módulos IBM MicroLatency y muchas otras prestaciones y características de gestión avanzada de flash.
Future Proof Your Data: IBM Storage at VeeamONPaula Koziol
IBM Storage is collaborating with Veeam to deliver tightly integrated high availability solutions for our joint customers. Learn about our offerings and how they can benefit your always-on enterprise. This presentation was developed for the VeeamON 2017 event. VeeamON is designed to bring together the world’s leading IT experts and visionaries to learn how to ensure Availability for the Modern Data Center.
The Pendulum Swings Back - Understanding Converged and Hyperconverged Integrated Systems, presented Oct 17, 2017 at IBM Systems Technical University, New Orleans LA
IBM Storage is ideally suited for SAP HANA workloads. Learn more about our certified offerings for SAP HANA TDI, and all about our flash storage technologies and systems. Our Storage is built to power the future of IT!
Inter connect2016 yss1841-cloud-storage-options-v4Tony Pearson
This session will cover private and public cloud storage options, including flash, disk and tape, to address the different types of cloud storage requirements. It will also explain the use of Active File Management for local space management and global access to files, and support for file-and-sync.
S de0882 new-generation-tiering-edge2015-v3Tony Pearson
IBM offers a variety of storage optimization technologies that balance performance and cost. This session covers Easy Tier, Storage Analytics, and Spectrum Scale.
IBM Storage for Financial Services Institutions (1Q 2017)Elan Freedberg
This presentation shows how IBM Storage helps financial services organizations meet the challenges of digital transformation to enhance the customer experience.
IBM Cloud Object Storage System, presented Oct 16, 2017 at IBM Systems Technical University in New Orleans, LA. This covers the object storage from IBM from the acquisition of Cleversafe, formerly known as DSnet product.
Tecnología IBM FlashCore
La tecnología IBM FlashCore™ hace referencia a las innovaciones de IBM que permiten al almacenamiento FlashSystem ofrecer el máximo rendimiento, IBM MicroLatency™, fiabilidad empresarial y una amplia gama de eficiencias de costes y operativas. Estas tecnologías e innovaciones se representan en la arquitectura acelerada por hardware FlashCore, los módulos IBM MicroLatency y muchas otras prestaciones y características de gestión avanzada de flash.
Future Proof Your Data: IBM Storage at VeeamONPaula Koziol
IBM Storage is collaborating with Veeam to deliver tightly integrated high availability solutions for our joint customers. Learn about our offerings and how they can benefit your always-on enterprise. This presentation was developed for the VeeamON 2017 event. VeeamON is designed to bring together the world’s leading IT experts and visionaries to learn how to ensure Availability for the Modern Data Center.
The Pendulum Swings Back - Understanding Converged and Hyperconverged Integrated Systems, presented Oct 17, 2017 at IBM Systems Technical University, New Orleans LA
IBM Storage is ideally suited for SAP HANA workloads. Learn more about our certified offerings for SAP HANA TDI, and all about our flash storage technologies and systems. Our Storage is built to power the future of IT!
Inter connect2016 yss1841-cloud-storage-options-v4Tony Pearson
This session will cover private and public cloud storage options, including flash, disk and tape, to address the different types of cloud storage requirements. It will also explain the use of Active File Management for local space management and global access to files, and support for file-and-sync.
S de0882 new-generation-tiering-edge2015-v3Tony Pearson
IBM offers a variety of storage optimization technologies that balance performance and cost. This session covers Easy Tier, Storage Analytics, and Spectrum Scale.
IBM Storage for Financial Services Institutions (1Q 2017)Elan Freedberg
This presentation shows how IBM Storage helps financial services organizations meet the challenges of digital transformation to enhance the customer experience.
IBM Cloud Object Storage System, presented Oct 16, 2017 at IBM Systems Technical University in New Orleans, LA. This covers the object storage from IBM from the acquisition of Cleversafe, formerly known as DSnet product.
70% of organizations are committed to the hybrid cloud approach. Learn about IBM Storage's solutions and offerings that are helping leading organizations build robust storage foundations for hybrid clouds.
Come learn about new and existing Amazon S3 features that can help you better protect your data, save on cost, and improve usability, security, and performance. We will cover a wide variety of Amazon S3 features and go into depth on several newer features with configuration and code snippets, so you can apply the learnings on your object storage workloads.
An overview of Converged and Hyperconverged Systems, including VersaStack and IBM Hyperconverged Systems. Presented in Orlando, FL IBM Technical University.
StorPool Storage presenting at Storage Field Day 25pdfStorPool Storage
Storage Field Day 25 took place on March 22–23, 2023, and gathered industry leaders and storage analysts in an exciting 2-day meet up with technical presentations. StorPool Storage participated in the event, and our team showcased our storage platform, its capabilities, and improvements.
Learn more: Watch now the recording of the presentation: https://storpool.com/blog/storpool-presents-at-storage-field-day-25-video-recordings
Meet the IBM Storwize family and discover IBM Smarter Storage for small and medium businesses and its advantages: efficient by design, self optimizing, cloud agile. Start smart and grow easily with IBM Smarter Storage and meet its high performance like a midrange disk system.
TechTarget Event - Storage Architectures for the Modern Data Center - Jeramia...NetApp
Why Is All-Flash Adoption Growing So Fast?
Presented by Jeramiah Dooley, Principal Architect, SolidFire
To be successful today, IT must transition from a cost center to a competitive advantage – and the path to success is through the data center. More central to business than ever before, the next-generation data center must be powered by all-flash.
All-flash is no longer the future; it's the present. Learn how all-flash can save your IT team time and resources with intelligent policy-based management, automation and more.
IBM was ranked #1 in 2014 for having 40% marketshare in Software Defined Storage (SDS). Learn why people are excited about Software Defined environments like OpenStack, IBM Cloud, VMware and Microsoft, what IBM has to offer in this area with Spectrum Storage family of products, and how to deploy this in your own datacenter.
Gain quick, easy, and flexible handling of data with a comprehensive family of SAP HANA storage solutions. IBM Storage delivers the flexibility and performance you need for your SAP applications. Discover fast, proven TDI-certified IBM Storage systems for your SAP deployment.
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.
IBM DS8880 and IBM Z - Integrated by DesignStefan Lein
This Presentation shows the strength of the IBM DS8880 Enterprise Storage Platform with special emphasis on the System Z integration capabilities. December 2017
Similar to Storage Cloud and Spectrum deck March 2016 (20)
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.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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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/
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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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
1. Joe Krotz
IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems
April 2016
The IBM Storage – Moving at the speed of your business
A Smarter Solution for a Smarter Planet
2. New era cloud environments and applications such as analytics, mobile and
social are driving huge growth in data volumes, making data the new
natural resource. But cost-effectively optimizing your current storage
environments while at the same time exploiting new opportunities is
straining storage budgets. The solution — IBM Spectrum Storage
The Smarter Software Storage Approach
Introducing IBM Spectrum Storage Software Solutions with Cloud Integration
IBM Spectrum
Control
(TPC and the
management
layer of VSC)
IBM Spectrum
Protect
(Tivoli Storage
Manager)
IBM Spectrum
Virtualize
(SAN Volume
Controller SVC)
IBM Spectrum
Archive
(Linear Tape File
System LTFS)
IBM Spectrum
Accelerate
(Software from
XIV System)
IBM Spectrum
Scale
(Elastic Storage –
GPFS)
• Simplifying and integrating storage management and data protection
across traditional and new applications
• Delivering elastic scalability with high performance for analytics, big data,
social and mobile
• Unifying silos to deliver data without borders with built-in hybrid cloud
support
• Optimizing data economics with intelligent data tiering from Flash to tape
and cloud
• Building on open architectures supporting industry standards including
OpenStack and Hadoop
IBM Spectrum Products
are IBM’s family of
Storage Management
and Optimization
Software solutions that
help accelerate,
optimize, virtualize and
streamline your storage
environment
3. The Smarter Software Storage Approach
Introducing IBM Spectrum Storage Software Solutions new software licensing!
The solution is IBM Spectrum Storage Suite
IBM Spectrum Storage Suite gives you unlimited
access to all members of the IBM Spectrum Storage
software family with licensing on a flat, per-TB basis
to make pricing easy to understand and predictable
as capacity grows.
Structured specifically to meet changing storage
needs, the suite is ideal for organizations just starting
out with software-defined storage as well as those
with established infrastructures who need to expand
their capabilities.
IBM Spectrum Protect
IBM Spectrum Control
IBM Spectrum Archive IBM Spectrum Virtualize
IBM Spectrum Scale
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
An example of this premier model is
simple!
Lets say you purchase 100Tb of licenses. You can
use those licenses for any of these products!
As your needs change, you can carve up those
licenses by mixing and matching them as long as it
doesn’t exceed 100Tb total capacity. Add more
capacity at any time as you grow!
4. Now compressing on almost all platforms regardless of vendor!
Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismic
Virtual
ServersJPEG/ZIP
80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression
Rate
Traditional
Storage
Average of
65% Compression
Real-time Compression Efficient
Half the Data Storage
Real-time Compression, for active and inactive data
The Smarter Storage Approach
The IBM Spectrum Integrated Solutions
5. The IBM Storwize Family
• Over 36,000 systems purchased
• Over 80,000 total enclosures
deployed
• Over 1.6 exabytes of capacity
• Extraordinary reliability –
Delivering 99.999% availability
Field proven, highly efficient
and super reliable
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM Spectrum Virtualize with Storwize
IBM is the world leader in
Software Defined Storage
Environments.
With the ability to virtualize
over 400 different backend
storage platforms as well as
offer our own V5000 and
V7000 platforms, IBM is the
obvious choice for your storage
and virtualization needs!
5x more data in the same space
3x performance with only 5% flash
47% less management effort
30-60% lower storage growth with
RTC and Thin Provisioning!
Enabling clients to do more with less!
6. October 2010
Midrange Storage
Storwize V7000
October 2011
File/Block Storage
Storwize V7000
Unified
2011 2012 2013
November
2012
Storwize
V3700
Flex System
V7000
April 2012
Real-time
Compression
FCoE
July 2003 - 2010
SAN Volume Controller
Remote Copy (async,
sync)
FlashCopy
(incremental,
cascaded, multi-target)
Thin provisioning
Volume Mirroring
Split cluster
iSCSI, VAAI, and more
2014
October 2013
IP replication
Integrated SANSlide
Mobile dashboard
Enhanced Stretched
Cluster
Storwize V5000
June 2013
Compression
performance
Easy Tier and
compression
Capacity and VM
scalability
Global Active
Cloud Engine
October
2014
Storwize
V7000
Encryption
Dual RACE
engine
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM Spectrum Virtualize Continuing Delivery of Enhanced Capability and Value!
2010
June 2014
Easy Tier 3
Auto-rebalance
Compression
acceleration
Storwize V7000
Gen. 2
May 2011
Clustering
VMware APIs
10Gb iSCSI
2015
December 2015
Software
Encryption for
Data at Rest
Comprestimator
integration
Support changes
Enhanced
VMWare
integration
7. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBMSpectrum Virtualize with Storwize
Next generation IBM Storwize V5000!
Multiply your possibilities!
V5010
Small
Internal Virtualization
Thin Provisioning
Data Migration
Advanced GUI
Multi Host support
VMware & MS Integration
FlashCopy
EasyTier
Remote Mirror
Up to 264 Drives
Medium
V5010 plus…
Higher Performance
Encryption
Up to 264 drives
Large
V5020 plus…
Clustering (2)
Higher scalability
Higher Performance
Compression
Ext Virtualización
HyperSwap
Up to 1008 drives
V5020 V5030
More powerful hardware
platform with new processor
and additional cache
–2x performance of previous Storwize V5000
–Up to 4x cache: 32GB or 64GB cache per
system (64GB or 128GB with two-way clustered
systems)
–2x infrastructure speed: 12Gb SAS and 16 Gb
FC
Improved scalability: Up to 20 expansion
enclosures
–Up to 504 SFF drives or 252 LFF drives per
system
–Up to 1008 SFF drives or 504 LFF drives per
clustered system
–Including new 3.2Tb SSDs
–Up to 1008 SFF drives or 504 LFF drives per
clustered system
8. How RTC works with SVC/Storwize
8
The Smarter Storage Approach
Dual software compression software engines for SVC DH8
–Take advantage of multi-core controller architecture
–Make better use of compression accelerator hardware
Enable up to double amount of “half price storage” in a single system
–Even greater efficiency than before
–Delivers up to double IOPS for compressed workloads
Expected performance per SVC DH8 I/O Group
–Up to 300K IOPS to compressed data
–Ability to scale up and out by adding more I/O groups (up to four total)
Now with integrated Comprestimator CLI utility for estimating expected compression rates.
With the identical compression algorithm that’s used on the compression cards,
Comprestimator will give very accurate results of +/- 5%!
IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software Defined Storage Solutions
9. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software Defined Storage Solutions
Resilient Open and Accessible Virtualized
Works seamlessly with IBM SmartCloud Storage Access and IBM Cloud
Manager with OpenStack for self-service provisioning.
99.999%
5 9’s Availability with over 1.6
Exabytes of install base
3x better network utilization
with native SanSlide integration
Supports OpenStack
deployments with Easy Tier and
compression enabled
Users provision storage on
demand in seconds, without
administrator involvement
Virtualize files globally across
various IBM and non-IBM disk
systems
Up to 128 processor cores and
512Gb of cache in an 8 node
cluster
Scalable
Scales up to 32PB of
usable capacity without
disruption
IBM RTC can reduce
your disk utilization by
up to 80% and reduce
costs by up to half
Efficient
Built-in virtualization,
thin provisioning
increases disk utilization
by 30%
Embedded IBM EasyTier
provides up to 3x
performance with only
5% flash storage usage
IBM is the World Leader in Software Defined Storage!
10. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM’s premier, fully-integrated, all-flash offering
11. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM’s premier, fully-integrated, all-flash offering
•New record in raw capacity shipped –
over 160PB for the year, and over 70PB
for 4Q. More than 160% YoY growth
(2.6x)
•FlashSystem V9000 made up 25% of
FlashSystem capacity shipped by 4Q
2015
•First customer installation with more
than 100 FlashSystem units, amounting
to over 5PBs of flash capacity
•Now have multiple PB+ customers,
with more than 2100 unique customers
in over 70 countries.
It just keeps growing!
Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped
IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
12. • IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million IOPS
• 40% greater capacity compared to previous generation
• IBM FlashCore technology, our secret sauce
Technical collaboration with Micron Technology – flash chips
• IBM enhanced flash technology
• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear Guarantee
Improved integration with VMware
‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI
Performance at-a-glance
IBM FlashSystem 900 and V9000
The next generation in our lowest latency offering
Minimum latency
Write 90 µs
Read 155 µs
Maximum IOPS 4 KB
Read (100%, random) 1,100,000
Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000
Write (100%, random) 600,000
Maximum bandwidth 256 KB
Read (100%, sequential) 10 GB/s
Write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s
Module type 1.2 TB 2.9 TB 5.7 TB
Modules 4 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12
RAID 5 capacity 2.4 4.8 7.2 9.6 12 11.6 17.4 23.2 29.0 22.8 34.2 45.6 57.0
Raw Capacity 7.1 10.7 14.2 17.8 21.4 26.3 35.1 43.9 52.7 52.7 70.3 87.9 105.5
Introducing IBM’s premier all-flash offerings
13. • Application acceleration
• Icon-based navigation, informative
graphics, and visualizations
• Industry award winning interface
• CLI output for administrative tasks
• Reduce complexity
• Improve efficiency and productivity
• Neighborhood Management
• 300 days of performance history
FlashSystem 900 Tier-0 solution
The Smarter Storage Approach
14. FlashCore vs. the Competition
• Commodity SSDs
• Most likely using open source OS, open
source SCSI layer, and off-the-shelf
interfaces
• Many use software RAID which cripples
RAID 5 performance
• Hard to add storage services without
killing performance
• Most likely from marketing focused
manufacturer
• IBM MicroLatency Module
• Hardware accelerated I/O
(no software in the datapath)
• Two-dimensional flash RAID
• Advanced Flash Management
• IBM FlashSystems is engineering
focused and driven
The CompetitionIBM FlashCore technology
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM FlashSystems with FlashCore Technologies
15. IBM FlashSystem 900 and V9000 are all-flash storage systems that are used to make applications and data
centers faster and more efficient. IBM engineers FlashSystem 900 with a relentless focus on lowering latency
for data accesses
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator
System features and
integration
• Systems Management
• World class GUI engineered
for ease of use, install and
setup
• IBM Service Center call home
and service automation
• Remote Power On
• Hot-swappable Flash
Modules, Power Supplies,
Batteries, Fans, Controllers
w/ interface cards
Cloud-Scale Infrastructures
OLTP Databases
Virtual Infrastructures
Computational
Applications
Analytical Apps/OLAP
HPC
Enterprise ready
• Hot-swappable Flash Modules,
Power Supplies, Batteries, Fans,
Controllers w/ interface cards
• Concurrent code load and
concurrent maintenance
• Variable Stripe RAID which
allows for NAND chip failures
without Flash module failures
• V9000 virtualized for immediate
cloud integration
• Native encryption at rest
Hardware Specs
Dimensions:
• 2U Chassis
Flash Technology:
• IBM Enhanced MLC
• RAID 5: up to 57 TB
Interfaces choices:
• 16Gb FC (4/8/16GB)
• 10Gb FCoE
• Infiniband (QDR
FC and IB)
Performance Projections - RAID 5
• 1.1M Read IOPs
• Read/Write 70/30% Split 800k
IOPS
• 600K Write IOPs
• 10GB/sec Read sequential
100%
• 4.5GB/sec Write sequential
100%
16. Patented Variable Stripe RAID allows RAID stripe sizes to vary.
If one die fails in a ten-chip stripe, only the failed die is bypassed, and then data is restriped across the remaining nine chips.
… 16
Planes
10 Chips
FAIL
RAID
Group
The Smarter Storage Approach
Variable Stripe RAID (VSR)
Value of VSR
• Unique Business Benefit:
Fewer Flash Module Replacements = Less maintenance touches while still preserving the life, protection, and performance of the Day-1 experience
• IBM Patented Technology:
No other manufacturer provides the resiliency or reliability
Protection Within
And Across
Flash Modules
No system rebuild needed!
17. IBM FlashSystem V9000
IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system
Announcement: February 19
General availability: April 24
• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire infrastructures
• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency
• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to 456 TB usable
(2.28 PB effective capacity) in only 34U
• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data Virtualization,
Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression
• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee
Scalable Performance Agile IntegrationEnduring Economics
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The Smarter Storage Approach
Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 1 storage
18. • Redefine Tier 1
performance for workloads
with diverse I/O patterns
• Optimize your data tier with
thin provisioning,
snapshots, and real-time
compression
Area Integration Value
Management vCenter plug-in • Storage visibility
• Self-service provisioning with controlled
delegation
Business
Continuity
SRA for Site
Recovery Manager
• Automated Storage and Host
•Failover
•Failover testing
•Failback
Performance VAAI • Hardware accelerated VM copy/migration
• Hardware accelerated VM initiation
• Accelerate VMFS (no SCSI reservation)
Driving efficiency, performance, flexibility
& scale in virtualized environments
FlashSystem + VMWare®
: an ideal fit
Agile Integration
Scalable
Performance
Agile
Integration
Enduring
Economics
19. Health status, configuration,
capacity and thin
provisioning
Storage intensive
operations
• Greater communication between vSphere and
FlashSystem
• Ability of vSphere to monitor and directly
manage FlashSystem allowing greater
efficiencies
• Enables migration or offloading of specific host
operations to storage, improving overall
performance of virtual environment
Integration of VMware VASA and VAAI via
IBM Storage Integrated Server
VAAI and vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
20. Integrated Systems are Integrated
Infrastructure
• Server, storage, networking
• Integration value for customers is
“easy, efficient, and versatile”
• Exceptional scale both up / out!
• All VersaStack platforms can
virtualize up to 32Pb of external
disk!
IBM Spectrum Virtualize
brings critically needed
capabilities to VersaStack
VersaStack – The Importance of Storage
• Data protection – Metro
Mirror and Global Mirror
• Snapshots – FlashCopy and
FlashCopy Manager
• RtC – Reduces cost by
storing more data in
physical space
• Provisioning and
management
• Migrate data to / from
external storage
• Access existing data on
external storage system
FlashSystem V9000
Scale out to four pairs with 2 PB
internal all flash capacity
Storwize V7000
Scale out to four pair with 8 PB
internal
Storwize V5000
Scale out to two pairs with 4 PB
internal
The IBM VersaStack Converged Solution
• Performance – High
performance storage
systems with the ability
to optimize flash and
scale performance and
capacity
• Cost effective data
storage with data
reduction to optimize
capacity usage
• Business Continuity in an
Integrated System with
HyperSwap between
Storwize Platform
Extend IBM Spectrum
Virtualize functions to existing
storage
21. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM XIV Storage Array
Tuning-free performance
• Grid design and automation with
zero tuning
• 3-way mirror, five-nines design, self-
healing, and rebuilds in < 1 hour
spell piece of mind
Ease of use
• Easy migration and provisioning, and
Hyper-Scale management in a GUI
customers love
Having the right storage
infrastructure matters; it is
crucial to the survival and
growth of enterprises and
service providers, especially
those laying foundations for
cloud.
• Up to 15 Intel Xeon
Processors
• Up to 180 logical
• Up to 720 GB of cache
• Up to Up to 12 TB of Flash
Cache
• Up to 24 Fibre ports(8
Gbps)
• Up to 12 iSCSI (10 Gbps
ports)
Hardware Specs
Easy-to-implement solutions
• Hosts, hypervisors, applications, and
tools integrate smoothly and cost-
efficiently
Winning TCO
• Cash in with low-cost per TB, ease of
use, and environmental benefits
Security
• Secure your data with data at rest
encryption.
• Tivoli Key Lifecycle manager
Mobility
• Scale data protection with IBM Hyper
Scale Consistency and Mobility
• Coordinated concurrently-consistent
snapshots over multiple XIV Systems
• Seamlessly move workloads between
multiple XIV systems
Upgradability
• See up to a 60% increase in
performance with the addition of
SSDs to XIV at any time!
The XIV Benefits
22. XIV Module
UPSUPS UPS
XIV Module
XIV Module
XIV Module
Host
Host
FC
Interconnect
iSCSI
Host
Data
Modules
Data
Modules
Interface
Modules
Interface
Modules
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM XIV Storage Array Hardware
Full Rack – 484TB (6TB Drives)
15 modules
90 cores (180 logical)
180 1Tb, 2Tb, 3Tb, 4Tb or 6TB
SAS SED disks
Infiniband fabric
Up to 720GB memory
Up to 12TB L2 SSD cache
24 8GB FC ports
22 iSCSI ports
What’s new
• IBM XIV delivers dramatic cost savings using inline
IBM Real-time Compression and without need for
extra hardware
• Brings IBM Random Access Compression Engine
(RACE) technology to XIV grid architecture to scale
performance and simplify compression
management
• Increases usable capacity per rack typically to one
petabyte or more with RTC, greatly reducing
effective cost per capacity
• Replicates compressed data faster and using less
bandwidth, freeing up bandwidth for other uses
• Continuously displays predicted or actual
compression ratios for all volumes
• Converts non-compressed volumes to compressed
non-disruptively
23. How RTC works with XIV
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• RACE is embedded into the
compute services
• Becomes an organic part of the XIV
software stack
• Seamlessly integrates with existing
system management design
• Indicates how much
uncompressed data has been
written to the volume
• All of XIV advanced functions are
supported on compressed volumes
working on compressed data
• Provides non-disruptive conversion
between compressed and
uncompressed volumes
The Smarter Storage Approach
The IBM Spectrum Integrated Solutions
24. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM XIV Spectrum Accelerate
XIV Spectrum Accelerate Storage is … XIV Software
X86
server
X86
server
X86
server
+
3 to 15 Storage Nodes
Client provided!
Built with mature, proven, XIV software stack
• Adapted to run on client provided x86 server
hardware
• Similar features and functions as an XIV
integrated system
• Compatible with XIV system for management
and replication
• Client installed
Complements XIV Integrated System
• Lower capacity and cost point solutions
• Rapid build-out of test and dev environments
• Lower cost DR targets
• Complete integration with XIV hardware
• and more…
Remote and branch offices
• HA storage for small environment
• Centralized management
• Scalable and modular building blocks utilizing
commodity hardware
Bridge to the Hybrid Cloud
• Backup and recover to/from the cloud
• Easily adapt to changing environments
• Enable Cloud Service Providers to provide advanced
XIV storage features
Use Cases
25. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM XIV Storage and Spectrum Accelerate
with Cloud Integration
Eliminates complexity associated with traditional arrays
• No need to have the workload self-describe storage needs to the
cloud management layer
Great price-performance ratio
• Optimized for large drives, small footprint
• High performance over IP with 10GbE
Tight hypervisor integration (SCVMM, SRM, VAAI, vCenter)
Ultra-easy management
Designed for extreme high availability
Proven – more and more IBM and client clouds are built on XIV
Solutions with IBM SmartCloud and OpenStack
26. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM XIV Spectrum Accelerate
• Scales up to 3Pb plus 96Tb of
Flash in 4 floor tiles!
• Up to 48 cores of processing
power with up to 2Tb of cache!
• Tight integration with System z -
3x System z database
performance!
• Six 9’s Availability!
• Fully encrypted
• Multiple Target Peer to Peer Remote Copy for zero
disruption
• Multiple Incremental FlashCopy for additional data
protection
• High Performance Flash Enclosure with 2X flash for
hybrid systems
• Multi-thread Performance Accelerator enables 35%
IOPS improvement
• Higher capacity, faster drives running 1.6TB flash &
600GB 15K rpm drives for even better EasyTier
performance
• Improved GUI for easier management
• Complete OpenStack support for cloud
implementations
IBM DS8880 with High Performance Flash Enclosure
27. 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 Enterprise 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 and
integrates seamlessly with
LTFS
Spans flash, disk and tape media
with a file system view that
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM Spectrum Scale Solutions
28. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM is the World Leader in Software Defined Storage!
IBM Spectrum Scale
-Native: encryption is built into the
“Advanced” product
--Complies with NIST SP and is FIPS
140-2 certified
-Supports HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley,
EU and national data privacy law
compliance
-Secure erase provides the ability to
destroy arbitrarily large
subsets of a file system
-No “digital shredding”, secure
deletion is a crypto operation
-Spectrum Scale lets you
mirror your data at a DR site
-If the primary site fails, data
requests are automatically
redirected to the secondary site
-Asynchronous updates
accommodate unreliable networks
-IBM Spectrum Scale V4.1
snapshots can retain 256 Global
snapshots and 256 Snapshots of
each independent Fileset.
-SSDs or Flash placed directly in
Client nodes
-Accelerates I/O up to 6x by
reducing CPU wait time
-Spectrum Scale handles the flash
cache automatically so data is
transparently available to your
application with very low latency
-Maximum number of files/file
system 264 (9 quintillion) files per
file system
-AFM makes global namespace truly
global by automatically managing
asynchronous synchronization of
data
--Local cached data access performs
much better than WAN access
latencies are improved WAN link
usage is reduced
-Simplified interface utilizing our
award winning XIV GUI
-Single pane of glass through the
with standard global namespace
-30% lower TCO with Flash
-Optimizes storage tiers including
flash, disk and tape
-Multiprotocol data via NFS v3/v4
SMB 2/SMB 3.0 mandatory (4.2
supported) / CIFS for WinTel
-3,000 active connections per node
/ 20K max
-OpenStack Swift and S3 API
support for object storage
Software defined means flexible! Run as a software solution on your
own hardware, implement IBM’s Elastic Storage Server (ESS) or take
advantage of IBM’s managed solution offerings via SoftLayer!
Security Recovery Scalability Ease of Use Optimized
29. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM Tape and Backup Solutions
DFSMS
Linear Tape File System
Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager / ISKLM for z/OS®
Tivoli Storage Manager, Tape Sys Lib Manager
TS4500
TS3500
TS7740 and
TS7720 Grid
IBM Tape and Virtual Tape solutions offer high capacity, high performance, reliability
and security while helping to lower storage TCO via scalability, energy efficiency,
footprint reduction and lowest cost per TB.
IBM invented the concept of magnetic tape storage back in 1952. Since then, IBM has
delivered many innovations in tape storage and that innovation continues today.
TS1150, TS1140
TS3500 Shuttle
Complex
Enterprise Enterprise
Scale out
TS2900
TS3200
TS3100
Entry
LTO 4 thru 6 FHLTO 3 thru 6 HH
TS3310
Middle Tier
TS7620 ProtecTIER
Deduplication Appliance
Express
TS7650G ProtecTIER
Deduplication
Gateway
ProtecTIER
30. Spectrum Control and Storage Insights
The Smarter Storage Approach
The IBM Spectrum Integrated Solutions
IBM Spectrum Control data management and storage
management solutions provide comprehensive
monitoring, automation and analytics. They address the
two most significant storage costs: physical capacity and
storage administration. You can get important insights
into cloud, virtualized and software defined storage
environments.
IBM data management and storage management
solutions can help to:
•Identify and categorize storage assets for file, block and
object data
•Generate departmental and application views of storage
•Optimize data placement within the infrastructure
•Identify unused and wasted storage space
31. Improve storage uptime and simplify support efforts with
personalized assistance
Complex storage issues can cause downtime. And that can
obstruct your business operations. How do you efficiently
resolve these costly and high-impact problems?
Of course, your storage device service agreements with IBM
enable you to access robust support to help resolve high-
severity storage challenges. But without a technical advisor,
your staff still needs to know how to access help and determine
the issue.
With a technical advisor for storage from IBM, you can gain
continued technical support for critical issues—as well as
proactive advice for problem prevention.
• Improve uptime
Continued assistance from one specialist can
resolve high-severity problems more quickly
• Enhance efficiency
Work with IBM to promote staff productivity
through support protocols and critical-
problem management techniques
• Avert problems
Your consultant can offer
time-tested methods to
help you prevent outages
and use IBM support more
effectively
Scalable
Performance
Agile
Integration
Enduring
Economics
IBM Technical Advisor for Storage
Now included with FlashSystems!
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM Tape and Backup Solutions
32. Data Center and Point of Presence
New Data Centers in 2014
Network Point of Presence
The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM SoftLayer Global Footprint
100,000+
Servers
21,000
Customers
20,000,000
Active
Domains
•IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
•Global DNS
•Global DDOS Mitigation
•Global Internet Exchanges &
Peering
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33. The Smarter Storage Approach
IBM SoftLayer Architecture and Integration
Infrastructure solution with a common management interface and API across a unified architecture
Mix and match bare metal servers, virtual server instances, and hosted private clouds
Full integration with all IBM storage portfolio offerings
Full OpenStack, RESTful API, SmartCloud Storage and IBM Storage Integration Server integration
Seamless scaling for Cloud and large deployments. This include Public, Private and Hybrid solutions
Bare metal with
your own stack
Dedicated virtualized
environment
Shared virtual
environment
Dedicated virtualized
environment
Triple Network Architecture
Automation & Support
Delivers Outstanding Performance & Price
Flexibility to Deliver Dynamic/ Hybrid Capability
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