Overview

Accelerate AI with our high-performance global data platform

IBM Storage Scale provides a global data platform for high-performance, next-generation data services. Accelerate your AI initiatives with parallel access to Yottabytes of file and object data using multiple APIs concurrently to the same data. Engineered to speed data access recovery times to seconds after a cyberattack. Access a single copy of data from most any file or object storage system including data in the public cloud.

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Benefits

Improve efficiency

Build a sustainable, low-energy and high-performance infrastructure, that is flexible for multiple concurrent workloads.

De-risk the business

Allow applications to access the same data no matter what storage interface is used or where the storage is located.

Unleash the Enterprise Core

Optimize all your workloads and gain the performance, security, protection and efficiency you require.

Features

High performance object storage

Give your applications the choice of interfaces to the data it needs with a high-performance S3 interface to your file and object data.

Plug-and-play data services

Software services that are easy to configure, easy to manage and provide the capabilities for AI, HPC and enterprise workloads.

NVIDIA and IBM Storage Scale

IBM Storage Scale now supports GPU direct storage (GDS) and NVIDIA SuperPOD as well as new NVIDIA AI solutions with three easy to install configurations.

Kubernetes and IBM Storage Scale

Container Native Storage provides a high-performance interface and simple to deploy and grow storage solution for containers.

Cloudera and IBM Storage Scale

IBM Storage Scale Hadoop connector supports Cloudera Analytics and Spark.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data with IBM Storage Scale Container Native

Now use IBM AI tools with IBM Storage Scale including Watson Knowledge Catalog, Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, and Apache Spark.

A global data platform for AI

High performance enterprise storage

  • Kubernetes container applications
  • AI and ML workloads and analytics
  • HPC and high-performance workloads

Flexible building blocks (edge, core, cloud)

  • NVMe flash nodes with turbo tier
  • Red Hat OpenShift storage capacity
  • Public cloud capacity and tiering

Optimize your data with enterprise resiliency

  • Snapshots and multi-site replication
  • Safeguarded Copy and CyberVault Enabled
  • Encryption and air-gaped solutions

IBM Storage Scale System

Learn how IBM Storage Scale System is the easiest way to deploy IBM Storage Scale with TB/s performance, low latency, millions of IOPs per node and scales to 1000s of nodes.

7 years as industry leader

Gartner has recognized IBM as leader in distributed file and object storage for many consecutive years.