Applying IBM Storage Scale

This page describes how IBM Storage Scale is software-defined storage for high performance, including medium to large scale workloads on-premises or in the cloud.

Built on the award winning IBM® General Parallel File System (GPFS), this scale-out storage solution provides file, object, and integrated data analytics for the following functions:
  • Compute clusters (technical computing)
  • Big data and analytics
  • Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
  • Private cloud
  • Content repositories
The IBM Storage Scale GUI, simplified data management, and integrated information lifecycle tools can manage petabytes (PBs) of data and billions of files, enabling you to control the cost of skyrocketing data growth.

When use cases involve managing of unstructured data (File or Object) with scale, performance, and economics, IBM Storage Scale becomes a natural fit.