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1364IBM’s Cloud Storage OptionsTony Pearson, IBM

Master Inventor and Senior Engineer

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Abstract

This session will cover private and public cloud storage options, including Flash, Disk and Tape to address the different types of cloud storage requirements

The difference between with block, file and object stores, and where they are best used for different workloads will be explained.

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This week with Tony Pearson

Day Time Topic

Monday

2:30pmAll Flash is Not Created Equal: Tony Pearson Contrasts IBM FlashSystem and SSDGrand Garden Arena, Lower Level, MGM Grand - Studio A

Wednesday

11:00amAll Flash is Not Created Equal: Tony Pearson Contrasts IBM FlashSystem and SSDGrand Garden Arena, Lower Level, MGM Grand - Studio 2

1:15pmTony Pearson Presents IBM Cloud Object Storage System and Its ApplicationsMGM Grand - Room 114

2:30pmThe Pendulum Swings Back: Tony Pearson Explains Converged and Hyperconverged EnvironmentsMGM Grand - Room 113

Thursday

09:45amTony Pearson Presents IBM's Cloud Storage OptionsMGM Grand - Room 116

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The Technology and the Business Side of Cloud

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics:

• On-demand self-service

• Broad network access

• Resource pooling

• Rapid elasticity.

• Measured service. *

* Source: U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist.gov)

Technology Side… … Business Side

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Clients are Moving to Hybrid Cloud Deployments

Infrastructure

Dedicated(Private)

Public

Local(Private)

On-premises

Off-premises

Traditional IT

The IT department is in direct

competition with alternatives off

premises for Lines of Business

funding On-PremisesSome workloads require a level of security, availability or government

compliance

Off-PremisesSome workloads might prefer more

agile, flexible and scalable environment

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OpenStack IBM Cloud Proprietary

IBM is a platinum sponsor of OpenStack

Foundation.

OpenStack open source code can

manage IBM compute, network and

storage resources OpenStack supports

x86, POWER Systems and z System

mainframe.

IBM offers OpenStack Cinder interfaces on

most of its major storage products and

OpenStack Swift interfaces for object

access.

IBM offerings are based on OpenStack

open source code with value-added

proprietary features from IBM

IBM Cloud Orchestrator supports a

variety of server hypervisors. IBM

BlueBox and IBM PowerVC provide

additional features.

IBM Spectrum Control™ provide

reporting, provisioning, trouble shooting

and chargeback capabilities for storage.

VMware and Microsoft are entirely

proprietary, but have a large market

share for x86-based server infrastructure.

IBM was VMware’s first partner since

1998. IBM has expanded its partnership

with VMware, offering new cloud tools to

make it even easier for enterprises.

IBM and Microsoft agreement to offer SQL

Server and .NET on IBM Cloud and IBM

software on Microsoft Azure.

“Some assembly required” Enterprise-ready out of the box

x86, POWER systems and z System mainframe Concerns about vendor lock-in

IBM is Focused on these Software Defined Environments

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Deliver Management Solutions

Perform Optimizations

Contribute Platform Support

� IBM Cloud Orchestrator � IBM BlueBox� IBM PowerVC� IBM Spectrum Control

� Live upgrades� Security and authentication� OVF Images� Membership services� Globalization translation integration� QA enhancements

� PowerKVM, KVM, z/VM � IBM DS8000, Storwize, SVC, XIV� IBM Spectrum Storage� IBM FlashSystem

� IBM SDN for VE, OpenFlow Switches

IBM OpenStack Platform

IBM Contributions

HEAT Orchestration

OpenStack IaaS APIs

TOSCA

Nova Cinder Neutron

IBM Unique Value

Swift

Drivers Drivers Drivers Drivers Drivers

Manila

IBM is committed to OpenStack with contributions and added value

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Reference Storage• Archives

• Images/Video• WORM/NENR

Ephemeral Storage• Typically boot volumes,

page files and temporary data• Goes away when VM

is shutdown

Persistent Storage• Persists across

VM reboots• Can be shared

between VMs

• Transactional

• High Performance

Storage as the Storage CloudStorage for Compute Cloud

Hosted Storage• File and Object access

• Enterprise File Sync & Share• Backup/Disaster Recovery

Cloud Storage Taxonomy

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Cloud Storage Overview

Block

File

Object

Archival

Online

Ephemeral

Persistent

• Block storage offerings are differentiated by speed/throughput (as measured in IOPS) and segmented by lifecycle of the disk. Device location does not matter.

• Ephemeral storage is tied to the lifecycle of a single VM (i.e. it is provisioned when the VM is provisioned and destroyed when the VM is destroyed)

• Persistent storage has a lifecycle independent of any single VM and can be

provisioned/destroyed at any time and attached/detached to many VMs during it’s life

• File-based offerings are uncommon among providers, especially among those targeting cloud native applications

• Primarily targeted at cloud enabled workloads

• Usage is being replaced in new application development with online object storage

• Object storage offerings are differentiated by the durability of the data (i.e. odds of irrecoverable loss) and segmented by the availability of the data (i.e. time

required to retrieve)

• An object in online storage is immediately accessible

• An object in archival storage may require minutes to hours to be accessible

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Software Defined Storage – Block level Access

XIV

FICONz/OSz/TPFz/VSEz/VM

Linux on z

FCPLinuxWindowsUNIXVMware

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iSCSILinuxWindowsUNIXVMware

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LAN

InfiniBand

DS8000

FlashSystem900

Software Defined Environment

OpenStack IBM Cloud Proprietary

IBM Spectrum

Accelerate™

SAN

FlashSystemA9000 and A9000R

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Radical Simplicity but with Enterprise-Class features XIV and the FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R

Radical simplicity• Breakthrough GUI, CLI and Mobile App

• OpenStack, IBM Cloud, VMware, Microsoft and RESTful APIs

Low-touch management

• Innovative distributed RAID

• Extreme ease of use across all functionality

• Create volume, resize volume, take snapshot, mirror volume

Self Tuning / Self Healing

• Ultra fast rebuild times

• No manual performance optimization

• No hotspots, no tuning

• Not even when adding capacity!

Enterprise-class Software features

• QoS performance classes

• Thin provisioning and space reclamation

• IBM Hyper-Scale consistency and mobility

• Advanced reporting

• Data at rest encryption

• Performance acceleration with Flash cache

• Snapshots and remote mirroring

• Data migration from other disk systems

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3-15Modules

What’s Different about IBM Spectrum Accelerate?

6-12 cores24-96 GB RAM

12 SED1, 2, 3, 4, 6 TBOptional SSD

500, 800 GB

FCP Ethernet IB

FCP Ethernet IB

6/9-15Modules

Host FCP

Host iSCSI+ Management

GUI/CLI

Inter-node

6-12 HDD, JBOD600 GB to 6 TB

Optional SSD500-800 GB

VMware ESXi 5.5

4-20 cores32-128 GB RAM

Ethernet

Ethernet

Host iSCSI+ Inter-node+ Management

Pre-built System Software-only

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VM 2

IBM Spectrum Accelerate for Block-Level Hyperconvergence

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� Enables the IT administrator to single-handedly manage the entire data center stack

� Allows hardware standardization of network, compute, storage, power and environmentals

� Leverages existing Data Center services and maintenance contracts

� Simplifies the architecture when lacking specialized, domain-specific skill sets

� iSCSI volumes can also be used by bare metal servers and other hypervisors

� Available as software-only or Supermicro® Hyperconverged Appliance pre-built system

Ethernet

Interconnect

Hypervisor

IBM Spectrum

Accelerate

IBM Spectrum

Accelerate

IBM Spectrum

Accelerate

Hypervisor

iSCSI

Hypervisor

VM 1

VM 4

VM 6

iSCSI

iSCSI

VM 3

VM 5

iSCSI

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IBM Spectrum Accelerate – as a Service!

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• Single order for Accelerate on IBM SoftLayer

• Operating Expense (OPEX) - no capital required

• Ordered:

• Base of 50TiB

• Increments of 20 TiB

• Two configurations are offered:

• Capacity oriented (for archive type of applications)

• Performance oriented (for real time processing applications)

• Each package includes all features and unlimited traffic

Capacity oriented serversDual CPU 6 cores32 GB RAM11 x 4TB SATA drives10GbE dual private links

Performance oriented serversDual CPU 8 cores64 GB RAM11 x 4TB SATA drives800GB SSD10GbE dual private links

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IBM Spectrum Accelerate on customer-choice HW

or Supermicro® Hyperconverged Appliance

IBM XIV

Gen 3

IBM Spectrum Acceleraterunning off-premise

Unified Management Experience

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• Remote Office, Branch Office. Provide high availability storage to smaller or distributed organizations such as banks and schools through disaster recovery and other capabilities, using less expensive hardware.

• Flexible deployment. Deploy test/dev or ad-hoc project environments and later repurpose hardware for other needs. Mix online transaction processing and new applications like analytics.

• Hybrid Cloud. Seamlessly move workloads between

on-premise and off-premise deployments.

• Disaster recovery. Mirror to the cloud or to a data center server running IBM Spectrum Accelerate. Use powerful XIV snapshots to execute backup to on-premise servers

IBM FlashSystem

A9000A9000R

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Software Defined Storage - Virtualization

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XIVDS8000 FlashSystem 900

Other IBM and non-IBM

Flash/Disksystems

IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

SVC, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000, VersaStack

FCPz/VSEz/VMLinuxWindowsUNIXVMware…

iSCSILinuxWindowsUNIXVMware…

SAN

FCoELinuxWindowsUNIXVMware…

Software Defined EnvironmentOpenStack IBM Cloud x86-based

TCP/IP

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IBM Storage Portfolio – IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM Spectrum ScaleElastic Storage Server

IBM Spectrum Virtualize

FlashSystem

IBM Spectrum Accelerate

XIV

DS8000

All-FlashFlash/Disk

Hybrid

IBM FlashSystem V9000

Storwize V7000 Unified

SAN Volume Controller

Storwize V7000Storwize V7000F

Storwize V5000Storwize V5000F

Common Advanced Virtualization Code BaseMany Different Packages

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Global Namespace across Flash, Disk and Tape

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XIVDS8000 FlashSystem

Internal,DirectAttachJBOF/JBOD

FPO,RAID

Elastic Storage

POSIXWindowsLinuxAIX

NFSSMBFTPSCPHTTPS

Hadoop

IBM SpectrumArchive™

Single Drive

Library

IBM Spectrum Scale™,Elastic Storage Server, Storwize V7000 Unified

OtherIBM andnon-IBM

Flash/Disksystems

Software Defined Environment

OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-based

Enterprise

LTFS

Object• OpenStack

Swift• Amazon S3

IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

SVC, FlashSystem V9000, Storwize, ant VersaStack

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IBM Spectrum Scale™ –Flexible File and Object Storage

FS1 FS256. . .

Exabyte-Scale, Global Namespace, one big file system, or up to 256 file systems

Each file system can be further divided into filesetcontainers

Metadata can be separated to its own Pool

or intermixed with data

Files and objects can be migrated to Tape, Object store, or Cloud

ROBO

Other Datacenters

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IBM Spectrum Scale™ – More than just a file system!

ROBO

Other NAS

Other Datacenters

Scale

Active File Management (AFM) caches data to where it is needed, can be used to migrate from other

NAS devices

Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) migrates

infrequently accessed files to tape or object-based cloud,

automatically recalls back when accessed

Local Read-Only Cache (LROC) and Highly Available

Write Cache (HAWC) caches the

busiest blocks of files on local flash

Disaster Recovery (DR) remotely mirrors

data to remote locations

Migrate/RecallTape

NSD Client

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) moves

data across tiers of flash and disk

Object Cloud

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Native Encryption and Secure Erase

Application

IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager (SKLM)

TCP/IP orRDMA

Node-to-Node Encryption

� Complies with NIST SP 800-131A

Data-at-Rest Encryption

• Files are encrypted by application node• Each file assigned random File-key• Master-key granularity by file or fileset,

determined by policies• IBM SKLM stores Master-keys, and nodes

must have appropriate credentials• Data is encrypted from application node all the

way to NSD (flash or disk) media• FIPS 140-2 certified

Secure Erase• Files are cryptographically erased by deleting

their Master-key• Files that “stay” are re-Mastered to new key

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IBM Spectrum Scale supports OpenStack environments

Glance• VM images• Disk images

Cinder• Volumes

Swift• Objects

Manila• File systems

Global Name Space

Volume-on-file Object-on-file

• Create, Delete and Extend volumes• Take snapshots (FlashCopy) and clones• Volumes � Images, Images � Volumes• Attach and Detach to/from VM instances

• Create and Delete containers in account• Upload, Download and Delete objects• List containers or objects in a container• Display and update metadata

Keystone• Access control

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IBM Spectrum Scale™ solves “Dropbox problem” for Enterprise File Sync-and-Share (EFSS)

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SAN

Internal, Direct-Attach

No IT Control:• Servers and storage• Security• Access control • User provisioning• Sensitive data

TCP/IP or RDMA network

Twin-tailed

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IBM Spectrum Scale on any Cloud

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Active File Management

Private VLAN

NSD Clients and Servers can be deployed within a Private VLAN on any Cloud

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IBM Spectrum Archive™ Overview

IBM Spectrum Archive enables IBM tape libraries to read and write LTFS-format tapes as part of a IBM Spectrum Scale™ global namespace

• Based on the integration of IBM Spectrum Scale™ and LTFS technology

• Supports IBM Spectrum-enabled devices–TS1140 (or higher) Enterprise Drive

–LTO5 (or higher) Ultrium drive

–IBM Libraries TS4500, TS3500, TS3310, etc.

• Integrated functionality with IBM Spectrum Scale–Supports Policy based migrations

–Seamless DMAPI usage

–Data replication to multiple pools

• Supports scale-out for capacity and I/O–Seamless cache controls between IBM Spectrum Archive Nodes

–Tape drive performance balancing

–Multiple node performance balancing

Tokyo Las Vegas London

Clients

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Global Namespace

LTFS LTFS LTFS LTFS

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For large archives with occasional retrieval at very low cost with predictable retrieval costs

IBM Spectrum Archive – as a Service!

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Global Namespace for Files and Objects

XIVDS8000 FlashSystem

IBM Spectrum Scale™

POSIXWindowsLinuxAIX

NFSSMBFTPSCPHTTPS

Object• OpenStack

Swift• Amazon S3

HadoopSpark

IBM Spectrum Scale™,Elastic Storage Server, Storwize V7000 Unified

OtherIBM andnon-IBM

Flash/Disksystems

Software Defined Environment

OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-based

Internal and Direct Attach

StorageJBOF/JBOD

FPO, RAID

IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

SVC, FlashSystem V9000, Storwize, ant VersaStack

IBM Cloud Object Storage System

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Storage Positioning – Filling a Gap

Unified file and object storage. Optimized for high performance, across flash and disk

Flash 15K

Unified file and object storage on tape

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) across tiers

Hig

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orm

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Lowest cost �

Tape

IBM was looking to offer easy to manage, scalable disk-based object storage for unstructured data• Moderate performance• Moderate cost

10K 7200 rpm

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How is Object Storage Different?

Block and File Storage

• Decide where to put it– For block, which array/volume/LUN

– For file, which filer/subdirectory

• Remember where it is to get it back

• Read/Write records, append data

• Limits on LUN size, number of files

Object Storage

• Provide data over to the Object storage – Get “claim stub” reference locator

• Use or share “claim stub” to access data HTTP, OpenStack Swift, Amazon S3

• Get/Put/Delete object in its entirety

• Effectively “unlimited” scalability

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Object Store for Unstructured data

Hot DataHigh-IOPS and Low-LatencyAll-Flash and Hybrid Flash/DiskInformation Lifecycle Management (ILM)Structured data / Random-AccessVirtual Machines and VDISingle-Tenancy

Static and Stable dataBackups, Files, ArchivesSeismic, Research, Telemetry, HPCVideo, Animation, Body CamsPhotos, Images, CAD/CAM, GISMusic, AudioGenomic, Medical ImagesMulti-tenancy

Object Store provides a • Secure

• Reliable • Scalable

• Cost Effective Platform For Unstructured data

Object Storeis not designed for• High IOPS workflows• Transaction

Processing• Inherent ILM

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Object storage is dominant in cloud

0

50

100

150

200

250

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

File-based software, appliances, and gateways

Object-based software and appliances (includes self-built/SaaS/cloud NAS)

IDC: Worldwide file- and object-based storage 2014–2018 Forecast (EB)

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Data Protection Schemes

Tolerate 1 drive failure Tolerate 2 drive failures Tolerate “M” failures

RAID-1 / RAID-10K pieces � 2 x K slices

RAID-5K pieces � K + 1 slices

2.0X

1.2X

3.0X

1.5X

1.7XTriplicationK pieces � 3 x K slices

RAID-6K pieces � K + 2 slices

Erasure CodingK pieces � K+M =

N slices

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Data Growth at Petabyte (PB) Scale

PB of data

3 to 5x

Data ProtectionRAID, Mirrors,

Replication, Tape

Data ProtectionHigh Availability & Disaster RecoveryGeo-Distribution & Erasure Coding

InfrastructureProprietary, specialized

hardware, multiple systems

OperationsMore than 1 FTE per PB

Maintenance outages

InfrastructureSoftware Defined,

Commodity Hardware,Single System

OperationsLess than 1 FTE per 6 PB

Single system, SecureSelf-healing

1.7 x60% Less

Hardware &Rack space

TraditionalApproach

IBM CloudObject StorageApproach

70%Lower

TCO

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IBM Spectrum Storage and IBM Cloud Object Storage

Unified file and object storage. Optimized for high performance, across flash, disk and object store

Flash

ObjectStore

Disk

IBM Cloud Object Storage System( File, backup and archive interfaces available through variety of options )

IBM SoftLayerOpenStack Swift

Amazon Web Services S3Swift S3 emulation

Unified file and object storage on tape

Transparent Cloud Tiering

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) across tiers

Hig

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Pe

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Lowest cost �

Tape

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Cloud Container Pools for IBM Spectrum Protect

Client nodes

• OpenStack Swift• IBM Cloud Object Storage System

Off-premises: • IBM SoftLayer• Amazon AWS

On-premises

IBM Spectrum Protect Server

IBM Spectrum Protect Server

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IBM SoftLayer Storage Services

Object Storage (OpenStack Swift,IBM Cloud Object Storage System)

Consistent Endurance & Performance (NFS)

Local

SAN

Consistent Endurance & Performance

Portable Storage Volumes

Block

File

Object

Archival

Online

Ephemeral

Persistent

• Endurance has tiers - .25, 2, and 4 IOPS per GB• Performance gives knobs - you can select size and

performance independently.

Big Storage (IBM Spectrum Archive as a Service)

Object Storage (OpenStack Swift,IBM Cloud Object Storage System)

Consistent Endurance & Performance (NFS)

Local

SAN

Consistent Endurance & Performance

Portable Storage Volumes

Big Storage (IBM Spectrum Archive as a Service)

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Cloud Storage Taxonomy

Storage as the Storage CloudStorage for the Compute Cloud

Persistent Storage

• Persists across VM reboots

• Can be shared between VMs

• Transactional• High

Performance

Reference Storage

• Archives• Images

Video• NENR and

WORM

Ephemeral Storage• Typically boot

volumes, page files and temporary

• Goes away when VM is shutdown

Hosted Storage• File Storage• Object Storage

• Backup• Disaster

Recovery

IBM Spectrum Accelerate, XIVFlashSystem, DS8000, SVC

IBM Cloud Object Storage System,IBM Spectrum Archive

IBM Spectrum Scale, Elastic Storage ServerTransactional Performance

Universal Access

LowestTCO

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IBM Redbooks on IBM Spectrum Scale

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IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS)

Implementing IBM Spectrum Scale

IBM Spectrum Scale in an OpenStack Environment

IBM Spectrum Scale – Big Data and Analytics Solution

IBM Spectrum Scale and ECM FileNet Content Manager

www.redbooks.ibm.com

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IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center

• Tucson, Arizona is home for storage hardware and software design and development

• IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center offers:

• Technology briefings

• Product demonstrations

• Solution workshops

• Take a video tour!

• http://youtu.be/CXrpoCZAazg

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About the Speaker

Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior Software Engineer for the IBM Storage product line. Tony joined IBM

Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. In his current role, Tony presents briefings on

storage topics covering the entire IBM Storage product line, IBM Spectrum Storage software products, and topics related to

Cloud Computing, Analytics and Cognitive Solutions. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads

client workshops to help clients with strategic planning for IBM’s integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and

virtualization products.

Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners

every week. This blog was rated one of the top 10 blogs for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine, and #1

most read IBM blog on IBM’s developerWorks. The blog has been published in series of books, Inside System Storage: Volume

I through V.

Over the past years, Tony has worked in development, marketing and customer care positions for various storage hardware and

software products. Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in

Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Arizona. Tony holds 19 patents for inventions on storage hardware and

software products.

9000 S. Rita Road

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Tucson, AZ 85744

+1 520-799-4309 (Office)

tpearson@us.ibm.com

Tony Pearson

Master Inventor

Senior Software Engineer

IBM Storage

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Twitter:twitter.com/az990tony

Blog: ibm.co/Pearson

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Additional Resources from Tony Pearson

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• Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput or performance that any user will experience will vary depending upon many factors, including considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user’s job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.

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