We are very pleased to announce that the IBM Redbooks team has just published the following IBM Redbooks publication: “ Cloud Object Storage as a Service: IBM Cloud Object Storage from Theory to Practice !" The book is a practical guide for IBM Cloud Object Storage Public Cloud Services, the newest addition to the IBM Cloud Object Storage (IBM COS, previously known as Cleversafe) family.  It  was  produced by a team of specialists from IBM... [More]

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This week we published  IBM Spectrum Scale Deployment on IBM SoftLayer . This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes various activities that are necessary to deploy IBM Spectrum Scale™ on IBM SoftLayer® . It includes the following topics: Sizing and configuration guidance Cluster deployment Monitoring Storage options on SoftLayer Network considerations on SoftLayer There are many factors that must be taken into account when configuring a IBM Spectrum Scale cluster on any hardware. Desired... [More]

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I could spend hours explaining why I am jealous of the presenters and attendees who are in Barcelona this week at the OpenStack Summit.   If you haven't been to Barcelona put it on your list of things to do.  If you haven't been to an OpenStack Summit put Boston on your list for May 2017 .  The good news for those of us at home is Simon Lorenz, IBM IT Architect and Spectrum Scale Developer, is at the OpenStack Summit and they have recorded his sessions for us to enjoy as a... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights (IBM Storage Insights, for short) is a cloud-based offering designed for small and medium businesses and organizations. It helps you quickly understand what is happening in your storage environment without implementing complex tools. Storage Insights provides a web interface with a dashboard that quickly lets you quickly access your information. It can be set up in less than 5 minutes and provides actionable insights about your storage in less than 30 minutes.   Read the... [More]

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The IBM® XIV® Storage System Gen3 software version 11.5.0 was announced on  July 15th  and will be available on  August 21st, 2014.   This new version brings a myriad of new features that make XIV the storage of choice for Cloud environments.    Amongst those new features is the support for multi-tenants. XIV multi-tenancy is based upon the concept of domains , where an XIV Storage System is logically partitioned into one or more independent “containers,” each with its own assigned domain... [More]

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The IBM Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions Redpaper™ publication takes you on a journey that surveys cloud computing to answer several fundamental questions about storage cloud technology. What are storage clouds? How can a storage cloud help solve your current and future data storage business requirements? What can IBM do to help you implement a storage cloud solution that addresses these needs? Over the past four versions of this Redpaper there have been many changes regarding types of... [More]

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This is the fourth edition of our  A Deployment Guide for IBM Spectrum Scale Unified File and Object Storage , REDP-5113. It just seems like yesterday when we published the first edition.  The title was also updated to show the breadth of IBM Spectrum Scale support of Unified File and Object storage. The latest Redpaper focuses on the scope of object storage with OpenStack Swift and the automation of the  installation processes and preferred practices that ensure optimal... [More]

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Cloud Data Sharing with IBM Spectrum Scale draft just published. This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides information to help you with the sizing, configuration, and monitoring of hybrid cloud solutions using the Cloud data sharing functionality of IBM Spectrum Scale™.  Cloud data sharing is a feature available with IBM Spectrum Scale Version 4.2.2 that allows for transferring data to and from object storage, using the full lifecycle management capabilities of IBM Spectrum Scale... [More]

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The Spectrum Scale feature called transparent cloud tiering allows cloud object storage providers such as IBM Cloud Object Storage (previously known as Cleversafe), IBM SoftLayer®, and Amazon S3 to be used as a storage tier for IBM Spectrum Scale. Transparent cloud tiering can help cut storage capital and operating costs by moving data that does not require local performance to an on or off premise cloud object storage provider. Transparent cloud tiering reduces the complexity of cloud object storage by making data transfers transparent to... [More]

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Cloud computing is defined as the use of computing services and resources (hardware and software) that are delivered over a network, typically Ethernet.  OpenStack is being developed as an industry standard Cloud computing project.   OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. To learn more about  OpenStack, refer to the  project website at:  www.openstack.org     With the availability of the IBM Storage Driver... [More]

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