You add storage systems to get valuable insights, and to get those valuable insights, you rely on the data collector, which collects the asset, capacity, and performance data securely from your data center for analysis and presentation in IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ Storage Insights . But, what if your storage systems are in different networks or data centers and you have only one data collector? This might result in bandwidth or connectivity issues. Well, all you need to do is install multiple data collectors, and when you add a storage... [More]

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If you remember the tale, Goldilocks took only a few mouthfuls of Papa Bear's and Mama Bear's porridge, but she licked Baby Bear's bowl clean. If the Bear family were running a restaurant, how much would they charge Goldilocks? Would they charge her for the porridge that she ate or would they charge her for the three bowls of porridge? In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.12, when you create chargeback and consumer reports, you can charge for the block storage that is allocated to the storage consumer or the block storage that... [More]

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In your chargeback and consumer reports, you want to make sure that you charge the same price for the same type of storage whether it is block storage, copy data, or file storage. And, if your block storage is tiered, you want to charge the same price for each tier to all of your storage consumers. And when the storage costs change, you don't want to have to update each report. In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.12, you can use the default costs for storage for each report that you create or you can use custom costs. When you change... [More]

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In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.11, you got the chargeback report that shows the capacity and cost of the capacity for all the applications, departments, hypervisors, and physical servers in your storage environment. Well, in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.12, you get the storage consumption report so that you can configure a report that shows the block capacity and cost of the block capacity for a single storage consumer. Each consumer gets to star in their own report. So, if you don't want the owner of a storage consumer, such as an... [More]

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IBM® Spectrum Control™ V5.2.12, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , continues to provide IT managers with more and more intelligent analytics for managing their storage environments by balancing efficiency with performance and cost savings. Some highlights of the new release that is available include: Enhancements to the reporting on multiple tenants within the IBM Spectrum Control GUI. In addition to the previously available Chargeback report, you can now create a new storage Consumer report outside of the optional... [More]

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You can use the IBM Spectrum Control™ GUI to monitor the performance and capacity of your storage resources. You can also report on the condition, capacity, and performance resources in the Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tool. The Cognos BI tool is an optional component that you can install with IBM Spectrum Control . IBM Spectrum Control is a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite . Use Cognos BI to view predefined reports and create custom reports about your storage resources. To access... [More]

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                    Yes!   Recently the automated probe option was added to IBM Spectrum Control to enable the creation of a probe and collect status and asset information more efficiently about your storage resources for monitoring.   This scheduling option puts you in more control of your resource monitoring by simplifying the process of managing your probes and helps to avoid excessive load on the IBM Spectrum Control server. To minimize the number of concurrent probe jobs, you can... [More]

The Petascale Data Protection white paper, published last month, has captured the attention of IT specialists across multiple industries. The paper describes an innovative solution for big data customers to help them scale the data protection of their storage environments up to hundreds of petabytes.　 Industry specialists from the medical, financial, automotive, and computing sectors have welcomed the solution, which uses an  IBM® Spectrum Scale™ file system that is integrated with... [More]

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So last year, you persuaded your boss to invest in an IBM ® FlashSystem™ 840 for that important new web portal that required top-of-the-line performance. Now, your boss wants to see what he got for his money.   IBM Spectrum Control™ , a member of the   IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , now enables you to easily compare the performance of your IBM FlashSystem to other storage systems. You can compare the response times and the I/O rates of IBM FlashSystem storage systems to other storage systems.   All you need to do is... [More]

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Your business organization just purchased a software license(s) for IBM® Spectrum Control™ or any IBM product that includes IBM Spectrum Control such as IBM® Virtual Storage Center or IBM Spectrum Storage Suite and you want to assess your storage license situation. Before you can begin your assessment, you must know what license(s) your organization employs in your environment: IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition and the IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition licenses are priced by the number of storage... [More]

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When you're looking for technical information about IBM Spectrum Control, you want to find it fast, right? Spending time paging through reams of documentation for help probably isn't high on your to-do list. To make it easier to find what you're looking for, the documentation for Spectrum Control is now available in the new look IBM Knowledge Center.   If you've accessed the IBM Knowledge Centers on ibm.com at any time over the past few months, you might have noticed that the interface is quite different from before. The... [More]

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Let's face it, there is a lot of information in the knowledge center for IBM Spectrum Control, and sometimes finding the right information can take time. Time that you might or might not have. And when you do find what you're looking for, paging through all the other topics that are available isn't high on your to-do list. Maybe you're the kind of person who just likes to dive in and figure out things as you go without reading documentation. If this describes you, or if you've never had a chance to delve into the IBM... [More]

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Whether you manage or own applications, departments, hypervisors, or physical servers, you want to know how much storage is being consumed and how much it costs to maintain the storage that is consumed. And, you want that information in your inbox now, every week or month so that you can keep a close eye on storage costs and capacity consumption. In IBM ® Spectrum Control™   a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , Bob, your storage administrator, can schedule, customize and send chargeback reports to your... [More]

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Who wants to live in a house that was built overnight? You would wonder if too many shortcuts were taken; if the right tools were even used in the construction. You have heard the saying, “you are only as good as your tools.” Well, it’s true! Selecting the right tools for a job is a critical decision, and one that needs to be monitored carefully and then included in an overall strategy for any project or environment. The same is true for a storage administrator and his storage. When it comes to building and monitoring a... [More]

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