Enterprise storage platforms

Industry trends:  

Many IBM clients are transforming their IT infrastructure to enterprise platforms because their business application owners are demanding a public cloud like experience. 

The public cloud experience is characterized by the following: 

• Web scale applications  

• On-demand consumption  

• Scalable elastic infrastructure  

• Platform-as-a-Service  

• Containers & Bare Metal  

• API on everything  

• Unified storage services (file, block, object) 

Client requirements: 

As IT leaders build out their enterprise platforms, they have the following requirements for the underlying enterprise storage platform: 

• Multiprotocol: deliver file, block, and object from a single software platform 

• Software-defined: software solution that runs on commodity servers 

• Modular scalability: modular design that can scale up and down without disruption 

• Intelligent security: automatic protection, detection, and recovery from threats   

• Uniform control: Common unified control plane with standard APIs 

• API-driven: REST APIs to fully automate management tasks  

IBM capabilities: 

IBM clients have issued vendor requests for proposals (RFP) for enterprise storage platforms and evaluated the responses. IT leaders have learned that only IBM Storage Ceph can meet their requirements for multiprotocol, software-defined enterprise storage platforms.  None of the other major storage vendors (e.g., Dell, NetApp, Pure Storage) can deliver all three protocols (file, block, and object) from a single software-defined platform. 

IBM clients that have implemented enterprise storage platforms on IBM Storage Ceph have reported 50% lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and 67% faster deployment times. 

Conclusion:  

If you are trying to meet the demands of your IT users for a public cloud experience, please let IBM Storage Ceph help you deliver your enterprise storage platform.