The Leading Storage Solution for Data and AI information architecture
IBM Spectrum Scale is a high-performance, highly available, clustered file system and associated management software, available on a variety of platforms. IBM Spectrum Scale can scale in several dimensions, including performance (bandwidth and IOPS), capacity and number of nodes* (instances) that can mount the file system.
IBM Spectrum Scale addresses the needs of applications whose performance (or performance-to capacity ratio) demands cannot be met by traditional scale-up storage systems; and IBM Spectrum Scale is therefore deployed for many I/O-demanding enterprise applications that require high performance or scale.
Simple building blocks for IBM Spectrum Scale
IBM Elastic Storage Server is a modern implementation of software-defined storage, combining IBM
Spectrum Scale software with IBM POWER8® processor-based I/O-intensive servers and dual-ported
storage enclosures.

BENEFITS
The advantages of IBM Spectrum Scale
KEY FEATURES
What's new for IBM Spectrum Scale
Kubernetes and IBM Spectrum Scale
Container Native Storage access now containerizes IBM Spectrum Scale access and clusters data from high-performance Spectrum Scale nodes.
Cloudera and IBM Spectrum Scale
IBM Spectrum Scale Hadoop connector now supports Cloudera Analytics.
Advanced File Management (AFM) for Object storage
Native object storage is now part of the high-performance global file system and provides NVMe access to object storage data.
One-click integration to IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Watson
Real-time ingest to IBM Spectrum Discover creates more value for AI workflows.
KEY FEATURES
High performance enterprise storage for:
Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud applications
AI and ML Workloads and Analytics
High performance video, IoT or Digital Data Access
Parallel performance for NVIDIA, Cloudera, SAS Grid
HPC and high performance workloads
Enterprise Collaboration when performance matters
IBM Elastic Storage System
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.

IBM Elastic Storage Server: Building blocks small and large


KEY FEATURES
Key Features of the IBM Elastic Storage Server
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IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
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Unified storage
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Manage and Gain Insights from Massive Amounts of Data
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True scale out capability
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Global Sharing and Collaboration
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Hadoop connector
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Policy-Based Tiering and Compression Quality of Service
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Integrated and modular
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Transform CAPEX to OPEX
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HortonWorks certified
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