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IBM - Gold Partner
OCF are recognised as a Gold Partner of IBM.
IBM's relevance to OCF customers centres on three pillars: Storage Scale, tape/archive technology, and enterprise AI software.
IBM Storage Scale (formerly GPFS/Spectrum Scale) is perhaps themost-trusted parallel file system around, powering many of the world's largest high performance computing clusters. It has proven reliability at petabyte-to-exabyte scale with IBM Storage Scale System (formerly ESS) appliances deliver this as an integrated, supported building block.
IBM leads the tape market (LTO and enterprise tape drives/libraries), which remains the most cost-effective and energy-efficient medium for cold research data and compliance archives. Combined with Storage Scale's information lifecycle management, IBM enables true tiered data ecosystems from NVMe flash to tape.
Storage Scale's high-throughput, low-latency data delivery makes it a proven data platform for GPU cluster feeding, while IBM watsonx provides an enterprise stack for governed generative AI model tuning, data governance, and AI lifecycle management.
For OCF customers, IBM's USP is longevity and dependability. IBM storage provides a mature, enterprise-hardened data infrastructure that scales with research demands and protects decades of institutional data investment.
