IBM Storage Fusion
Accelerate time to value by leveraging a cloud-native infrastructure and application data services platform designed for Red Hat OpenShift
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IBM® Storage Fusion, is a comprehensive set of application data services for Red Hat OpenShift.

With Fusion, you get a cloud-native platform that delivers a simple, consistent and scalable data services experience for containerized applications. It is designed to meet the data management requirements like persistent storage, resilience, security, mobility and cataloging of open-source Kubernetes applications on a Red Hat® OpenShift® container platform.

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Benefits Accelerate time to value​

Accelerate time to value of hybrid cloud-native adoption by reducing “day1” deployment effort and enabling easy management of ongoing maintenance and operations on “day2” with automation and full Red Hat OpenShift integration.

Reduce total cost of ownership​

Reduce total cost of ownership by storing data more efficiently, delivering higher performance, increasing application availability, allocating compute resources more effectively and improving operational productivity.

Reduce risk of data loss

Reduce risk of data loss by implementing a range of enterprise-ready resilience capabilities against hardware and software failures and future-proof defense against cyberattacks. 

Features​ The core value of Storage Fusion is derived from “Fusion 5”—five foundational application data services that deliver a consistent experience across public cloud and on-premises bare metal or virtualized platforms. Data persistence​

Platform engineering and application development teams gain productivity from Fusion's automation for data storage provisioning.

Data resilience​ ​

Ensures data is always available, even ​during disruptive events or system failures.​

Data security​

Data encryption, retention and recovery to protect from intentional or unintentional data loss.

Data mobility​

Apps need to run ​from the edge, to the core and to the cloud, which also requires your data to be mobile.​

Data cataloging​

Data scientists seek simple and fast ways to create actionable data insights at scale. ​

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IBM Storage Fusion Support Reference Guide

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