ARMONK, N.Y., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced major innovations across its storage portfolio
designed to improve the access to, and management of, data across
increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments for greater data
availability and resilience.
First, the company announced plans to launch a new
container-native software defined storage (SDS) solution, IBM
Spectrum Fusion in the second half of 2021. The solution will be
designed to fuse IBM's general parallel file system technology and
its data protection software to give businesses and their
applications a simple and less complex approach to accessing data
seamlessly within the data center, at the edge and across hybrid
cloud environments.
In addition, IBM introduced updates to its IBM Elastic Storage
System (ESS) family of high-performance solutions that are highly
scalable and designed for easy deployment: the revamped model ESS
5000, now delivering 10% greater storage capacity1 and
the new ESS 3200 which offers double the read performance of its
predecessor2.
As hybrid cloud adoption grows, so too does the need to manage
the edge of the network. Often geographically dispersed and
disconnected from the data center, edge computing can strand vast
amounts of data that could be otherwise brought to bear on
analytics and AI. Like the digital universe, the edge continues to
expand, creating ever more disassociated data sources and silos.
According to a recent report from IDC,3 the number of
new operational processes deployed on edge infrastructure will grow
from less than 20% today to over 90% in 20244 as digital
engineering accelerates IT/OT convergence. And By 2022, IDC
estimates that 80% of organizations that shift to a hybrid business
by design will boost spend on AI-enabled and secure edge
infrastructure by 4x5 to deliver business agility and
insights in near real time.
"It's clear that to build, deploy and manage applications
requires advanced capabilities that help provide rapid availability
to data across the entire enterprise – from the edge to the
data center to the cloud," said Denis
Kennelly, General Manager, IBM Storage Systems. "It's not as
easy as it sounds, but it starts with building a foundational data
layer, a containerized information architecture and the right
storage infrastructure."
Guardant Health, one of the leading precision oncology
companies, is dedicated to helping conquer cancer globally through
use of its proprietary blood tests, vast data sets, and advanced
analytics. The company is committed to helping patients across the
cancer care continuum live longer, healthier lives. The company's
data and high-performance computing platforms turn massive amounts
of genomic data into actionable insights for oncologists,
researchers, and the biopharmaceutical industry, with unparalleled
speed and throughput. Several years ago it turned to IBM to help it
build a data foundation for its platform knowing that it needed to
scale its data infrastructure to serve the tens of millions of
patients around the world, and across the cancer care
continuum.
"We manage large scale compute clusters demanding high data
throughput to a large number of compute nodes," said Kumud Kalia, CIO, Guardant Health. "IBM Spectrum
Scale's parallel filesystem delivers high performance, while the
ESS systems provide the data throughput our genomic pipelines
require. I look forward to continued collaboration with IBM to
further innovate on this platform."
Introducing IBM Spectrum Fusion
The first incarnation of IBM Spectrum Fusion is planned to come
in the form of a container-native hyperconverged infrastructure
(HCI) system. When it is released in the second half of 2021, it
will integrate compute, storage and networking into a single
solution. It is being designed to come equipped with Red Hat
OpenShift to enable organizations to support environments for both
virtual machines and containers and provide software defined
storage for cloud, edge and containerized data centers.
In early 2022, IBM plans to release an SDS-only version of IBM
Spectrum Fusion.
Through its integration of a fully-containerized version of
IBM's general parallel file system and data protection software,
IBM Spectrum Fusion is being designed to provide organizations a
streamlined way to discover data from across the enterprise. In
addition, customers can expect to leverage the software to
virtualize and accelerate existing data sets more easily
by leveraging the most pertinent storage tier.
With the IBM Spectrum Fusion solutions, organizations will be
able to manage only a single copy of data. No longer will they be
required to create duplicate data when moving application workloads
across the enterprise, easing management functions while
streamlining analytics and AI. In addition, data compliance
activities (e.g. GDPR) can be strengthened by a single copy of
data, while security exposure from the presence of multiple copies
is reduced.
In addition to its global availability capabilities, IBM
Spectrum Fusion is being engineered to integrate with IBM Cloud
Satellite to help enable businesses to fully manage cloud services
at the edge, data center or in the public cloud with a single
management pane. IBM Spectrum Fusion is also being designed to
integrate with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM) for managing
multiple Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
Advancing IBM Elastic Storage Systems
Today's launch of new IBM ESS models and updates, all of which
is available now, include:
- Global Data Boost: The IBM ESS 3200, a new 2U
storage solution that is designed to provide data throughput of 80
GB/second per node – a 100% read performance boost from its
predecessor6, the ESS 3000. Also adding to its
performance, the 3200 supports up to 8 InfiniBand HDR-200 or
Ethernet-100 ports for high throughput and low latency. The system
can also provide up to 367TB of storage capacity per 2U node.
- Packing on the Petabytes: In addition, the IBM ESS 5000
model has been updated to support 10% more density than previously
available for a total storage capacity of 15.2PB. In addition, all
ESS systems are now equipped with streamlined containerized
deployment capabilities automated with the latest version of Red
Hat Ansible.
Both the ESS 3200 and ESS 5000 feature containerized system
software and support for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes Container
Storage Interface (CSI), CSI snapshots and clones, Red Hat Ansible,
Windows, Linux and bare metal environments. The systems also come
with IBM Spectrum Scale built-in.
In addition, the 3200 and 5000 also work with IBM Cloud Pak for
Data, the company's fully containerized platform of integrated data
and AI services, for integration with IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog
(WKC) and Db2. WKC is a cloud-based enterprise metadata repository
that activates information for AI, machine learning and deep
learning. Users rely on it to access, curate, categorize and share
data, knowledge assets and their relationships. IBM Db2 for Cloud
Pak for Data is an AI-infused data management system built on Red
Hat OpenShift.
To further bring together edge computing, core data center,
private and public cloud environments, the ESS 3200 and 5000 are
also fully integrated with IBM Cloud Satellite.
About IBM
For more information on the news, read the IBM Systems Blog.
For more on IBM Storage, check out IBM Hybrid Cloud Storage
solutions.
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are
subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals
and objectives only.
Media Contact
Michael
Zimmerman
IBM Media Relations
mrzimmerman@us.ibm.com
1 Total capacity per node of previous 5000 was
13.5PB.
2 The ESS 3200 performance was measured using the IBM
Large File Sequential Read Bandwidth test, which is based on the
industry standard benchmark, IOR; ESS 5000 capacity percentage is
based on the inclusion of an additional disk enclosure, which
supports up to 1.7PB of capacity.
3 IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Operations
2021 Predictions, October 2020.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 The ESS 3200 performance was measured using the IBM
Large File Sequential Read Bandwidth test, which is based on the
industry standard benchmark, IOR.
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