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IBM SmartCloud
Enterprise – object storage
Faster, smarter and more secure – enterprise
data storage
Highlights
Allows you to upload a file of virtually
any size—anytime, anywhere—with
near-continuous access
Provides enterprise-grade security and
service level agreements
Offers more flexible storage locations so
that you can maintain multiple copies of
data in multiple locations
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Data is expected to grow a staggering 800 percent over the next five
years, with 80 percent of it being unstructured.1 The relentless onslaught
of large unstructured data sets includes everything from emails, text
messages, blogs and tweets to PowerPoint files, PDF documents,
computer-generated images (CGI), JPEGs, photos and videos.
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As a result, organizations are challenged to store, manage, protect and
retain hundreds of terabytes, petabytes—and soon exabytes—of data
while also facing management pressure to reduce complexity and costs.
These conflicting priorities have led to a critical decision point: maintain
the conventional storage system buying cycle or move to cloud storage?
Conventional storage system versus
cloud-based storage
In a conventional storage system purchase, up-front purchases must be
installed, configured and maintained in a continuous cycle that consumes
large portions of limited budgets. Other options for building complex,
tiered storage architectures, tape storage or near-line storage can bring
their own set of challenges, including cost, manageability or compliance
demands for rapid data access.
Executives at many organizations see cloud storage as a way to improve
utilization and flexibility while saving time and costs. In fact, many have
mandated their IT departments to adopt cloud storage—and quickly.
Enterprise-class object storage from IBM
IBM has developed a second-generation cloud storage service
that can remove the obstacles to cloud deployment for enterprises.
Object storage—a feature of IBM SmartCloud™ Enterprise—is designed
to offer:
Near-continuous access—Upload a file of any size from virtually
anywhere in the world and have fast, near-continuous access to it. No
need to break down large files into smaller files or upload the same file
multiple times in multiple geographic locations. And with geopositional
routing, your files can be retrieved quickly by routing you to the closest
location to access your data.
Self-healing data integrity—Gain access to advanced software that can
perform near-continuous data integrity checks on all stored files and that
can automatically repair files, should they ever become corrupt.
Security—Access virtually unparalleled security safeguards and processes
at the user, data storage and physical data center levels, including clientdefined user access restrictions. Help protect data with security-rich
multitenancy and the ability to create subdirectories and millions of child
accounts under a single storage domain.
Control—Provision your own storage as needed from a dedicated,
intuitive management portal.
Data consistency—File changes in the cloud are reflected across the
whole cloud around the world in near real time, unlike other clouds,
which update file versions at some future point in time.
More f lexible global storage locations—Maintain multiple copies of
data in multiple locations of your choice to help manage both in-country
and out-of-region data retention and compliance requirements.
Enterprise service-level agreements—Leverage up to 99.99 percent of
data availability.
Support for archiving structured data—For growing amounts of
application data, leverage IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ Data Growth
Solution to archive and store historical application data to—or archive
and store within—IBM SmartCloud Enterprise – object storage.
Third-party gateways—Access your data through integrated
third-party gateway providers, including Oxygen Cloud, Panzura
and TwinStrata, for enhanced collaboration, backup and archive
capabilities.
Why IBM?
IBM brings together key cloud technologies, deep process knowledge, a
broad portfolio of cloud solutions and a network of global delivery centers. Managing millions of cloud-based transactions every day, IBM has
helped thousands of clients adopt cloud models with nearly 20 million
public cloud users and a million virtual machines hosted on our own
cloud services.
For more information
To learn more about IBM SmartCloud Enterprise – object storage, please
contact your IBM marketing representative or IBM Business Partner,
or visit the following website: ibm.com/smartcloud/solutions/enterprise
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1
Gartner, “Data Center Executives Must Address Many Issues
in 2012,” January 2012, G00229650.
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