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IBM Spectrum Scale

IBM Spectrum Scale is a flexible software-defined storage that can be deployed as high performance file storage or a cost optimized large-scale content repository. IBM Spectrum Scale, previously known as IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), is built from the ground up to scale performance and capacity with no bottlenecks. Today’s storage requirements around massive capacities and the need for faster time to insights cannot be met by traditional scale-up storage systems that can’t scale beyond a few filers. This is why IBM Spectrum Scale is deployed at the most demanding enterprises in the world for both high performance and high scale. IBM Spectrum Scale provides interfaces for both traditional file based applications and the modern object based applications.

Enterprises around the globe have deployed IBM Spectrum Scale for:

  • Compute clusters (technical computing)
  • Big data and analytics with support for HDFS
  • High performance backup and restores
  • Private cloud
  • Content repositories

The IBM Spectrum Scale GUI, simplified data management and integrated information lifecycle tools can manage petabytes of data and billions of files, enabling you to control the cost of skyrocketing data growth. IBM Spectrum Scale:

  • Provides extreme scalability for data, metadata and flash.
  • Reduces storage costs up to 90 percent with automatic policy-based storage tiering from flash through disk to tape.
  • Improves security and management efficiency in cloud and big data and analytics environments.

Category

Storage

Red Hat Certifications

This product has been certified to run on the following Red Hat products and technologies: