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IBM Elastic Storage System - Simple, Scalable Building Blocks for High-performance Hybrid Cloud Storage

Storage made simple for AI and hybrid cloud modernization

IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) is a modern implementation of software-defined storage, making it easier for you to deploy fast, highly scalable storage for AI and big data. With the lightning-fast NVMe storage technology and industry-leading file management capabilities of IBM Spectrum Scale, the ESS 3000 and ESS 5000 nodes can grow to over YB scalability and can be integrated into a federated global storage system.

 

IBM ESS can consolidate storage requirements from the edge to the core data center to:

  • Rereduce inefficiency

  • Lower acquisition costs

  • Simplify storage management

  • Eliminate data silos

  • Support multiple demanding workloads

  • Deliver high performance throughout your organization

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IBM ESS can also handle storage requirements for Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.

What is IBM Spectrum Scale?

IBM Spectrum Scale™ is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared cluster configuration. This enables high performance access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high availability platform.

 

IBM Spectrum Scale™ has many features beyond common data access including data replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX® nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three. IBM Spectrum Scale can run on virtualized instances providing common data access in environments, leverage logical partitioning, or other hypervisors. Multiple IBM Spectrum Scale™ clusters can share data within a location or across wide area network (WAN) connections.

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IBM Spectrum Scale™ meets the challenges of a parallel high-performance solution with global file and object data access for managing data at scale with the distinctive ability to perform archive and analytics in place. 

Key Features and Benefits of IBM ESS 3000 and ESS 5000 Systems

Both IBM ESS 3000 and IBM ESS 5000 have common set of features:

  • IBM Spectrum Scale

  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Coding

  • True scale-out capability

  • Global sharing and collaboration

  • Policy-based tiering

  • Integrated and modular

  • Ease of management

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