What it can do for your business

Enterprises and organizations are creating, analyzing and keeping more data than ever before. Those that can deliver insights faster while managing rapid infrastructure growth are the leaders in their industry. Delivering those insights, an organization’s underlying storage must support both new-era big data and traditional applications with security, reliability and high-performance. IBM Spectrum Scale meets these challenges as a high-performance solution for managing data at scale with the distinctive ability to perform archive and analytics in place.

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Extreme Scalability

No bottleneck architecture scales performance for extreme throughput and low-latency access not expected from network attached storage.

Data Aware Intelligence

Grow and share the storage infrastructure while automatically moving file and object data to the optimal storage tier as quickly as possible.

Enable Global Collaboration

Data anywhere access spans storage and locations to accelerate applications across the data center or around the world.

Data Integrity and Security

Authentication, encryption, security and replication options for to meet business and regulatory requirements.

Key features

  • Intuitive, simplified GUI
  • Policy driven data placement
  • Supports GPFS, NFS, SMB, HDFS, Swift, S3
  • Global file sharing with active file management (AFM)
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Intuitive, simplified GUI
Intuitive, simplified GUI
Policy driven data placement
Policy driven data placement
Supports GPFS, NFS, SMB, HDFS, Swift, S3
Supports GPFS, NFS, SMB, HDFS, Swift, S3
Global file sharing with active file management
Global file sharing with active file management
“IBM Spectrum Scale has this unique ability to allow for seamless data tiering, so we can add high-performance storage when and where we need it.”

Bob Oesterlin

Senior Storage Architect

Nuance Communications

“The technology can concurrently handle large amounts of data with no log-jams. It can also address an almost unlimited number of clients, giving clients like Milk the ability to rapidly scale up operations.”

Dave Goodbourn

Head of Systems

Milk, an independent vfx company

“We're generating terabytes of data per day on individual patient samples. So when people talk about big data that's small to us. We are generating huge data.”

Dr. David Spetzler

Vice President of research and development

Caris Life Sciences

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