IBM Spectrum Accelerate Available as a Service on SoftLayer Cloud

IBM Spectrum Accelerate on Cloud delivers grid-scale, enterprise storage system capabilities on SoftLayer Cloud, and Spectrum Accelerate V11.5.1.

Spectrum Accelerate, a flexible, software-defined storage solution that delivers block storage services for new and traditional workloads, is available as a service on SoftLayer Cloud.

It’s possible to get the benefit of performance, hotspot-free, grid-based, enterprise Spectrum Accelerate on the cloud without the burden of hardware acquisition and upkeep.

Spectrum Accelerate on cloud comes in two configurations:

• Capacity-oriented
• Performance-oriented

Spectrum Accelerate V11.5.1 delivers following functions with this release:

• Converge compute and storage ith the Spectrum Accelerate VM and the VMs of other applications on the same server, enabling customer-built, hyper-converged solutions based on XIV storage technology
• Enable usage of nonuniform, asymmetric server deployment
• Support for any HDD form factor with a capacity point between 1TB to 4TB
• Support for any SSD form factor and capacity point up to 800GB as a cache device
• Enable Spectrum Accelerate to use HDDs that are indirectly attached to the server
• Support for Microsoft System Control VM Manager management via SMI-S V1.6

Planned availability date:

• Spectrum Accelerate on Cloud: September 10, 2015
• Spectrum Accelerate V11.5.1: September 28, 20 (electronic availability)