Scale-out file and object with cognitive data management
Supports massive volumes of data
IBM ESS can deliver up to 40GB/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.
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
IBM ESS uses IBM Spectrum Scale RAID with de-clustered erasure coding to distribute and protect data. Support for RESTFUL APIs allows for reduction in OPEX.
Seamlessly extend storage to the cloud
Enjoy the benefits of both on-premise and off-premise storage with hybrid cloud storage capabilities. Native tiering capability allows moving data to or from the cloud based on business policies.
Global Collaboration
Share data across multiple locations as a single namespace with Advanced File Management, intelligent routing and caching.
Multi-protocol support
Support for File (POSIX, NFS, SMB), Object (S3, Swift), Block (iSCSI) and Hadoop (HDFS)
Simplified intuitive GUI
Integrated system and software management with the IBM ESS GUI, which is compatible with IBM Spectrum Control to simplify deployment, troubleshooting and administration
Key features
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
- Unified storage
- Gain storage visibility, insight, and control
- True scale out capability
- Global sharing and collaboration
- Hadoop connector
- Policy-based tiering and compression quality of service
- Integrated & modular
- HortonWorks certified