Benefits and value proposition

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The IBM Fusion Data Foundation value proposition boils down to the uniform consumption of storage by high-level services for stateful containerized applications.

Consistent user experience
  • By using under the hood and well-known open source components, you can take advantage of the abundant skills on the market.
  • As IBM Fusion Data Foundation is tightly integrated into Red Hat OpenShift, you can unlock the Red Hat ecosystem.
  • You can easily install IBM Fusion Data Foundation via operators from the Red Hat OpenShift web user interface.
  • A consistent operation across hybrid cloud and the ability to manage and monitor from a single dashboard are key to efficiency.
  • IBM Fusion Data Foundation is also integrated with IBM Fusion, which features a common installation and configuration with IBM Storage Scale.
Dynamic scale
  • IBM Fusion Data Foundation unlocks your heterogeneous infrastructure and lets it grow and expand as needed independently of application development.
  • IBM Fusion Data Foundation is built on mature Ceph open-source technology that is proven to scale to tens of petabytes in production. This allows IBM Fusion Data Foundation to scale linearly as workloads increase.
Simplified access
  • You make your data accessible to applications across the hybrid cloud.
  • All major storage protocols and storage classes for container workloads are supported, which makes IBM Fusion Data Foundation suitable for any application.
  • IBM Fusion Data Foundation allows you to take advantage of a complete integrated solution, which covers the entire data lifecycle.

Specially, when running RHOCP on IBM Z, customers can take full advantage of the platform capabilities and characteristics:

Nondisruptive growth
Vertical and horizontal scalability help to accommodate a substantial workload increase on demand.
Highest scalability
Scaling up to millions of containers and thousands of Linux guests in one physical machine is proven. For details see: IBM unveils z15
Containerized workload
Combines a state-of-the-art microservices architecture with traditional transactional z/OS services and databases.
Advanced security and confidential cloud computing
Security includes FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification with the IBM Z cryptographic capabilities. For details see: IBM Systems cryptographic HSMs
Multi tenancy with full LPAR isolation (EAL5+)
  • Administrators can share a single hardware securely as even virtual machines on the same hardware offer EAL4 certification.
Consolidation and business continuity
  • In IBM Z, the hardware consolidation means that capacity and operational analytics and analysis are simplified. All results are consolidated on a single hardware machine for the entire RHOCP environment versus having a distributed environment with many physical servers. As a result, capacity planning is more predictable.
Data Gravity
  • IBM z/OS is designed to contain the back-end data required for the business.
Platform agnostic consumability
  • Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z is based on common Kubernetes skills for admins and developers and hides the hardware platform-specific aspects.
Reliability and resilience
  • The IBM Z hardware is designed for​ error prevention, error detection, redundancy, and​ correction (ensuring 99.99999% platform​ uptime and reliability​).