IBM Storage Scale

IBM Storage Scale is a software-defined file and object storage solution that enables a global data platform for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), advanced analytics and other demanding workloads. It seamlessly manages unstructured data, including documents, audio, images and videos, across distributed storage environments.

Built on a massively parallel file system, it provides global data abstraction and unified access across x86, IBM Power, IBM Z®, ARM-based POSIX clients, virtual machines and Kubernetes, even in non-IBM storage environments. With high performance, scalability and operational efficiency, it helps organizations maximize the value of their business-critical data by processing and analyzing vast data volumes with speed, reliability and security.

IBM Storage Scale also provides the foundation for IBM Fusion and the IBM Fusion HCI appliance, enabling organizations to seamlessly deploy and manage Red Hat® OpenShift® applications and IBM watsonx™ with agility and efficiency.

Software-defined storage for building a global data platform for AI, analytics and hybrid cloud

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Content-Aware IBM Storage Scale

Unlock the hidden value of your enterprise data.

Very little enterprise data is used to train the large language models underlying their chatbots and other AI assistants, limiting their business value. The content-aware storage capabilities in IBM Storage Scale address this challenge by extracting the semantic meaning hidden inside unstructured data so that AI assistants can automatically generate smarter answers.

Unlock the semantic meaning hidden inside unstructured enterprise data

Unlock the benefits of performance, resilience and scalability.

Improve performance for AI workloads

Build a globally connected high-performance infrastructure that is flexible for multiple concurrent workloads.

Unify data across hybrid cloud

Leverage a massively parallel file system to connect and scale data across on-premises and cloud environments, unifying multiple sources and locations.

Strengthen operational resilience

Protect data and enhance resiliency against cyber threats and downtime, keeping systems rich in security, accessible and running.

Optimize storage for objects and containers

Gain high-performance access to file and object storage with an S3 interface while simplifying deployment and scaling for containerized workloads.

Enhance NVIDIA with IBM Storage Scale

Leverage GPU direct storage (GDS), NVIDIA DGX BasePOD and DGX SuperPOD and NVIDIA AI solutions with three easy-to-install configurations.

Maximize performance for big data

Make the most of IBM Storage Scale’s Hadoop connector that supports Cloudera Analytics and Apache Spark.

Pricing plans

IBM Storage Scale Developer Edition (no-charge edition)

Learn, develop and test with IBM Storage Scale at no cost.

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IBM Storage Scale Data Management Monthly License Starting at USD 19.10* terabyte

Get an IBM Storage Scale monthly data management edition license.

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IBM Storage Scale Data Management Perpetual License Starting at USD 656.00* terabyte

Get a perpetual license with IBM Storage Scale's data management edition.

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Pricing option

Free of charge for nonproduction use up to 12 TB

Flexible monthly pricing options

Creates a single global namespace of high performance or tiered data by using new or current storage

A complete installation kit to deploy IBM Storage Scale on either x86 or Power servers

Includes installation packages for NFS, SMB, Object, protocol nodes and HDFS connector support

Includes foundation for cluster computing, AI or corporate data lake

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