IBM Spectrum Storage Suite V1.0 With Single Software License

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite V1.0 introduces a single software license for changing software-defined storage needs.

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite is a single priced
Product Identifier Description (PID)
containing the following IBM Spectrum Storage offerings:

Spectrum Accelerate V11.5
Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition V1.2 (Linux edition)
Spectrum Control Advanced Edition V5.2
Spectrum Protect Suite V7.1
Spectrum Scale Advanced and Standard Editions (Protocols) V4.2
Spectrum Virtualize Software for SAN Volume Controller V7.6
Spectrum Virtualize Software for SAN Volume Controller V7.6 (Real-time Compression)
Spectrum Virtualize Software for SAN Volume Controller V7.6 (Encryption Software)

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite is a single software license that entitles you to use any combination of these capabilities to enhance your software-defined storage infrastructure in a way that’s best for you and your workloads. Most enterprise IT managers utilize traditional storage with arrays connected to a SAN where traditional workloads like databases, email, and ERP systems house their data. While in most enterprises this type of storage isn’t growing as fast as it used to, there is still a lot of efficiency to be gained through using software-defined storage capabilities to improve this capacity.

Many enterprises are already well on their way to building a new environment with storage-rich servers. This is a new kind of storage infrastructure that is characterized by direct-attach JBODs and fields of servers with lots of internal capacity, with really none of it connected to a SAN. It’s emerging along with new cloud, analytic, mobile, social, and cognitive workloads. While the storage hardware is different and less expensive, the storage capabilities needed are very similar. This is where software-defined comes in. Today, the total amount of this type of capacity hasn’t yet overtaken the traditional capacity in most enterprises, but it’s catching up. Analysts have suggested that in 2014, for the first time, enterprises bought more terabytes of storage-rich server capacity than they did of traditional array capacity. By 2018, some expect we’ll reach a 60/40 mix in new purchases.

Then there is tape which continues to be the economic workhorse for large scale quantities of data. Where it used to backup workloads driving the data volume, archive workloads have taken the lead in many places.

Whatever your particular infrastructure, it’s growing, transitioning, and you probably have a lot of it. Using software-defined storage can help you be efficient and add the capabilities you need to quickly adapt. With IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, we’ve made it easier to use software-defined storage capabilities with your physical storage infrastructure. Simply count up the terabytes of usable physical infrastructure you want to use with software-defined storage capabilities, and license that much IBM Spectrum Storage Suite. You are then free to deploy any combination of our capabilities that you need to best optimize your environment and to change that deployment as your workloads shift and with licensing on a flat, cost-per-TB basis, your costs are easy to understand and predictable as capacity grows.

With access to all members of the Spectrum Storage family, becoming familiar with new use cases is easier than ever. For example, you may have deployed capabilities into production to help make your block storage SAN environment more efficient, but you are considering deploying new file and object storage using scale-out storage-rich servers, or perhaps a next-generation deduplicated recovery management system. Because you have access to all capabilities from the Spectrum Storage family, you have the ability to perform extended tests in an evaluation sandbox proving ground without additional charge. You may download any combination of entitled Spectrum Storage family software and then deploy it in desired combinations to become familiar with the behavior and operation of the software prior to deploying. It’s one way the Spectrum Storage Suite helps you be more agile.

Key prerequisites: one of the following OSs: