Webcast: Breaking performance barriers for AI and hybrid cloud
Overview
Storage made simple for AI and hybrid cloud modernization
IBM Elastic Storage® System (ESS) is software-defined storage that makes it easier to deploy fast, highly scalable storage for AI and big data. IBM ESS can reduce inefficiency, lower acquisition costs, simplify storage management, eliminate data silos, support multiple demanding workloads, and deliver high performance throughout your organization.
Product overview
New: IBM Elastic Storage System 3500
Powered by the global data platform of IBM Spectrum® Scale, the IBM Elastic Storage System 3500 scales from 36TB to 600YB+3 of capacity in a single cluster, with high performance support for up to 1800+TB/s with 20 nodes. With its easy management, data services and low latency, it can help you solve your difficult AI and hybrid cloud challenges.

Benefits
Fast time to value
ESS 3500 combines IBM Spectrum Scale file management software with NVMe flash storage for the ultimate in scale-out performance and simplicity, delivering 91GB/s of data throughput per 2U system.
Efficiency
Containerized software install and a powerful management GUI minimize demands on IT staff time and expertise. Dense storage within a 2U package means a small data center footprint.
Reliability
Software-defined erasure coding assures data recovery while using less space than data replication. Restores can take minutes rather than hours or days and can be run without disrupting operations.
Product overview
IBM Elastic Storage System 5000
IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS 5000) represents a new generation of integrated scale-out data management with state-of-the-art capacity storage with containerized software delivery for ease of installation and update. ESS 5000 delivers market-leading 55GB/sec performance throughput per node to move data to or from your systems fast enough to keep pace with even the most powerful processors.

Benefits
Fast time to value
ESS 5000 combines IBM Spectrum Scale file management software with NVMe flash storage for the ultimate in scale-out performance and simplicity, delivering 91GB/s of data throughput per 2U system.
Efficiency
Containerized software install and a powerful management GUI minimize demands on IT staff time and expertise. Dense storage within a 2U package means a small data center footprint.
Reliability
Software-defined erasure coding assures data recovery while using less space than data replication. Restores can take minutes rather than hours or days and can be run without disrupting operations.
Deployment flexibility
Available in a wide range of capacities from tens to hundreds of terabytes per 2U. Deploy as a standalone edge system or scale out with additional ESS 3500 systems or with IBM ESS 5000 nodes.
Support massive volumes of data
IBM ESS 5000 can deliver up to 55GB/s of throughput and scale-out to exabytes of storage with IBM Spectrum Scale. Growing data can be managed and tiered across practically any storage.
Integrate NVMe storage
IBM ESS 5000 can run in a cluster with IBM ESS 3200 servers to provide powerful and simple NMVe scale-out storage for AI, HPC and many other data workloads.
Features
Key features of ESS 3500 and ESS 5000
Optimize your storage with key features that allow for integration and scalability.
IBM Spectrum Scale software
Spectrum Scale comes installed on a pre-configured system offering scalable capacity and performance to handle demanding data analytics.
IBM Erasure Coding
Recover data in minutes rather than hours while using less space than data replication.
True scale-out capability
A high performance, single unified file system that scales out to meet the demands of the largest of data systems.
Global sharing and collaboration
Enables low-latency read and write access to data from anywhere in the world using AFM distributed routing and advanced caching technology.
Policy-based tiering and data reduction
Move data between different storage tiers and enhance performance by freeing up primary storage.
Cyber secure lockable data and audit trails
Access a detailed log of every action or activity taken related to data or reports.
Related products
IBM Spectrum Scale
High performance scale-out storage software and enterprise data services with global federated capacity.
IBM Spectrum Discover
Simplify data for AI with a 360-degree view from edge to insight and reduce time for data organization and analysis.
NVIDIA storage solutions
A container-native storage solution for global hybrid cloud data access and enterprise storage services for mission critical data.
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Footnotes
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