IBM Cloud Object Storage System V3.8 Can Store Exabytes of Unstructured Data on Standard Servers
From Cleversafe
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 6, 2016 at 3:03 pmAs clients move to transform their business with cloud, mobile IoT , analytics, social, and cognitive, they run into a wall of content that is particularly unstructured and grows exponentially. The growth of content is a challenge in a world of tight budgets, but this content can also have significant value to an enterprise. That content has a diverse set of requirements around where and how it is stored, managed, and accessed. Some content has to be stored inside of your data center, while other content can take advantage of the elastic characteristics of cloud.
IBM Cloud Object Storage is a hybrid cloud object storage offering that can be deployed on premises as a system, as a service on the IBM cloud or a combination of the two. This offering enables clients to store data at the petabyte and exabyte level, and encrypts, expands, slices and disperses data to further protect your information effectively and efficiently.
For clients who require an object storage solution, Cloud Object Storage System is a solution. It can help solve petabyte-to-exabyte storage challenges for businesses worldwide.
Instead of creating multiple copies of client data and storing them in different systems, Cloud Object Storage System allows to disperse, store, and retrieve a single instance of data in a private storage cloud.
The data is protected against hardware component failures by erasure coding in the Information Dispersal Algorithm (IDA), rather than by storage of multiple copies.
Cloud Object Storage System is designed to scale at a lower cost and less complexity than traditional services, with enterprise-grade security capabilities up to 99.9999999999999% reliability.
Cloud Object Storage System addresses many of the challenges
that can come with following storage use cases:
- Object Storage-as-a-Service. Deliver new levels of storage capacity and availability for clients, with enterprise-grade security capabilities.
- Active archive. Keep content accessible with a scalable and reliable long-term data archive, protected by enterprise-grade security capabilities.
- Backup repository. When cost optimization is the priority over RTOs, an easy, scalable, and continuous backup repository is available for dependable recovery.
- Content repository. Entrust business-critical data to a reliable and scalable storage platform.
- Enterprise collaboration. Storage for all of your data needs, in a single system and a single namespace with global access using RESTful interfaces can facilitate enterprise collaboration.
In November, 2015, IBM acquired Cleversafe, Inc, developer and manufacturer of object-based storage software and appliances. With this acquisition, IBM incorporated the object storage technologies into the IBM portfolio of solutions to enhance on-premise and IBM cloud service storage options for clients and service providers with large scale active archives and unstructured data content stores.
Key prerequisites
Cloud Object Storage System can be deployed on certified hardware servers in a single site or across multiple, geographically dispersed locations and connected by using public or private networks.
Planned availability date: April 26, 2016
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