IBM Spectrum Scale Fundamentals Workshop

IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution (based upon IBM General Parallel File System or GPFS technology, also formerly known as code name Elastic Storage) that's being used extensively across multiple industries worldwide. IBM Spectrum Scale provides simplified data management and integrated information lifecycle tools capable of managing petabytes of data and billions of files, in order to manage the growing cost of dealing with ever increasing amounts of data.

IBM Spectrum Scale is part of IBM’s market-leading Software Defined Storage family and is available in multiple ways:

• As a Software-only solution: runs on virtually any hardware platform and supports almost any block storage device. IBM Spectrum Scale runs on Linux, AIX and Windows based systems and IBM recently announced that IBM Spectrum Scale also is available for Linux on IBM’s z System platform.
• As an integrated IBM Elastic Storage Server solution: IBM Elastic Storage Server is an optimized storage solution bundled with IBM hardware and Spectrum Scale software with exceptional performance and ease of management. Elastic Storage Server (ESS) provides unsurpassed end-to-end data availability, reliability and integrity with unique technologies including IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
• As a Cloud service: IBM Spectrum Scale delivered as a service, bringing high performance, scalable storage and integrated data governance for managing large amounts of data and files in the IBM Softlayer cloud

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