New Models of IBM Elastic Storage Server

IBM Elastic Storage Server offers new models and 14TB HDD options

IBM Elastic Storage Server, the scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, is offering its highest capacity file and object storage solution, and adding a 14TB HDD drive option.

Elastic Storage Server offers the following benefits:

• Takes advantage of the new 14TB drive on all current models
• Provides up to 11.8PB of raw disk capacity on the new GL8C model with 14TB drive
• Increases storage capacity by 87%
• Provides protection against single drawer failures with new GL5C and GL5S models (8+2P Erasure Encoding)
• Expanded hybrid models to include GH22 offering

Key requirements:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Power (le)
• IBM Spectrum Scale for Elastic Storage Server
• IBM Select Support for xCAT V2

Planned availability date: March 22, 2019