IBM Storage Software Suite

IBM Spectrum Control provides monitoring, automation and analytics for multiple-vendor storage environments and is a member of IBM Storage Software Suite.

Licensing options

IBM Storage Software Suite gives you unlimited access to the IBM® Software Defined Storage product portfolio with licensing on a flat, cost-per-TB basis to make pricing easy to understand and predictable as storage capacity grows. You can save up to 40 percent compared with licensing the products separately. Non-production use of the software in test environments is included.
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Which products are included with IBM Storage Software Suite?

Besides the aforementioned IBM Spectrum Control, the following products are included in the IBM Storage Software Suite:

Table 1. Products that are members of IBM Storage Software Suite
Product Key benefits Links
IBM® Spectrum Protect™ Protects your data with multi-site replication and flexible restore capacity, and reduces your backup costs up to 53 percent. It can simplify data protection where data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments.
IBM® Spectrum Protect™ Plus Provides a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. You can either implement it as a stand-alone solution, or integrate the solution with the IBM Spectrum® Protect™ environment to offload copies for long-term storage and governance with scale and efficiency.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus on IBM Cloud® is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus on IBM Cloud can be provisioned with push-button simplicity to an existing or new VMware environment from the IBM Cloud console.
IBM® Spectrum Scale™ Supports big data analytics and clustered applications with high-performance, scalable storage that enables global collaboration, simplifies workflows and lowers costs with cloud tiering.
IBM® Storage Virtualize™ Provides an ideal way to manage and protect the huge volumes of data organizations use for big-data analytics and new cognitive workloads.
IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud Provides a way to transition existing IT architecture to a hybrid-cloud or cloud-based model, where servers, storage, and network infrastructure are delivered in a public cloud environment.
IBM® Spectrum Archive™ Provides a direct, intuitive and graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries by incorporating the Linear Tape File System™ (LTFS) format standard for reading, writing and exchanging descriptive metadata on formatted tape cartridges.
IBM® Spectrum Accelerate™ Provides a software-defined block storage solution that is designed for rapid and flexible deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure on and off premises. It can be deployed on your choice of servers: x86 commodity-choice hardware, integrated appliances (including IBM XIV® Storage System Gen3 and pre-validated third party appliances), and IBM public cloud.
IBM® Cloud Object Storage Provides highly scalable software-defined on-premises storage system designed to store, protect and easily access unstructured data. Deploy in your own data centers using IBM appliances or IBM software running on industry-standard, certified hardware.
IBM Spectrum™ Discover Modern metadata management software that provides data insight for petabyte-scale unstructured storage. The software easily connects to IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale to rapidly ingest, consolidate and index metadata for billions of files and objects. It provides a rich metadata layer that enables storage administrators, data stewards and data scientists to efficiently manage, classify and gain insights from massive amounts of unstructured data.

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Table 2. Other products of interest
Product Key benefits Links
IBM Storage Insights An IBM Cloud based product that provides capabilities to help optimize your infrastructure with features, such as capacity planning, reclamation and data tier planning, and performance troubleshooting at a low monthly subscription price.

Its enhanced dashboard enables you to quickly monitor and assess the basic health, status, and performance of block storage systems. If a problem is detected, you can get help to investigate and troubleshoot the problem and minimize the impact of hardware and software issues before they impact the performance of your critical business applications.
IBM Spectrum™ Copy Data Management Makes copies available to data consumers when and where they need them, without creating unnecessary copies or leaving unused copies on valuable storage. It catalogs copy data from across your local and hybrid cloud and off-site cloud infrastructure, identifies duplicates, and compares copy requests to existing copies.