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IBM Storage

IBM Storage Scale System 3500

IBM Storage Scale System 3500 is for customers who require an entry-level or midlevel system for less extreme product environments. It has many of the same capabilities as the Storage Scale System 6000, with differences mainly in size and capacity.

IBM Storage

Preserve and protect data with sustainable, cyber-resilient, ultra-high-density tape storage

Next-generation sustainable ultra-high-density storage, which builds on more than two decades of storage innovation. IBM® Diamondback delivers high-capacity, long-term data storage with the air-gapped cyber resiliency only tape can provide.

Organisations face challenges in managing vast amounts of data, especially those with hundreds of petabytes, in fields like machine learning, autonomous driving, pharmaceutical research, and astrophysics.

​They require reliable storage, backup, and recovery systems to protect against natural disasters and cyberattacks.

KEY BENEFITS OF DIAMONDBACK:

Ultra high-density storage
IBM Diamondback delivers ultra high-data density, with up to 46.4 PB2 of native data in a single eight-square-foot library using LTO Ultrium 10 cartridges.

Massive capacity
Using standard 2.5:1 compression, each IBM Diamondback Tape Library can store up to 116.1 PB, which provides the high-capacity organisations need to retain their growing volume of data.

Enhanced security
IBM Diamondback features tape-drive encryption, automatic data-path failover, dual robotic grippers, and WORM media support to improve management and help reduce risk in operations.

Enhanced cyber resilience
Because it’s physically separated from an organisation’s primary storage systems, IBM Diamondback Tape Library provides an “air gap” that helps isolate archived data and improves cyber resilience.

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IBM Storage

The IBM® TS3500 tape library is a highly scalable, stand-alone device that provides reliable, automated tape handling and storage for both mainframe and Open Systems environments.

An individual library, or library string, consists of one base frame and up to 15 expansion frames and can include up to 192 tape drives and more than 20 000 tape cartridges. The flexibility to connect multiple library strings to create a shuttle complex greatly increases opportunities for growth, as well as the maximum cartridge capacity. In addition to scalability, the TS3500 tape library offers the following enhancements:

• Enhanced data accessibility through dual accessors that increase speed and provide failover protection
• Enhanced data security through support for tape drive encryption and write-once-read-many (WORM) cartridges
• Increased storage capacity with high-density (HD) frames that greatly increase capacity without requiring more floor space
• Increased growth flexibility with shuttle technology, even in physically constrained environments
• Greatly increased cartridge capacity in a shuttle complex without the need for additional tape drives.

The TS3500 tape library comes with several tape drive, frame model, and feature options to meet your specific needs. Some additional features of the TS3500 tape library are listed here:

• Ability to attach multiple simultaneous heterogeneous servers
• Remote management using a web browser or the TS3500 Command Line Interface program
• Remote monitoring using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Multipath architecture
• Drive/media exception reporting
• In-depth reporting using the Tape System Reporter
• Host-based path failover
• Up to 224 I/O slots (16 I/O slots standard)

ddn Storage

The AI400X2 is DDN’s highest-performing system purpose built for large scale AI training and used in many of the largest AI clusters as part of a NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD.

The systems compact low power all NVMe design combined with DDN’s enterprise EXA Lustre-based filesystem and native InfiniBand support make this box well suited to the most IO challenging applications.

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ddn Storage

DDN EXAScaler is DDN’s enterprise implementation of the popular open-source parallel file system Lustre. It builds on the well proven parallel performance of Lustre and adds security and data management features comparable to leading proprietary parallel file systems.

We generally deliver this as an appliance on DDN hardware designed for high performance in both IOPS and throughput at scale.

It makes a great HPC scratch storage parallel file system combining low latency NVMe for metadata and a large quantity of hard disk drives for high parallel performance. Its use of high capacity QLC NVMe drives also makes it a cost-effective solution for all-flash deployments, well suited to AI or small-file bio-informatics workloads.

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Lustre Storage

Lustre is an opensource high performance parallel filesystem used in many HPC installations worldwide.

Although it lacks many of the data management features of commercially supported alternatives, it can often outperform them on the same hardware. This can make it an attractive solution for HPC scratch storage in financially constrained environments.

We are also able to offer DDN’s feature enhanced EXAScalar solution based on Lustre with commercial support.

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IBM Storage

At its core IBM Storage Scale is a massively scalable parallel filesystem with the enterprise grade reliability expected of IBM products. Its robust set of features expand this into a fully-fledged data management platform capable of maintaining many petabytes of data across a diverse range of storage technologies including flash, disk, tape and cloud.

We commonly deploy this as appliances integrated with IBM, Lenovo or DDN hardware however the software is vendor agnostic allowing us to architect solutions to meet requirements across a range of hardware platforms.

It is highly versatile and our team of expert storage engineers can configure it to be well suited to almost any workload.

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