IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI Software Offers Simplified Deployment and Data Management for Kubernetes Applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
With 4- and 5-year Storage Expert Care options
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on September 9, 2021 at 1:32 pmIBM Spectrum Fusion HCI is a container-native hybrid cloud data platform for Kubernetes applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It features an appliance form-factor, HCI along with integrated SDS to meet the storage requirements of modern, stateful Kubernetes applications. It is designed to make it easy to deploy and manage container-native applications and their data on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI features:
- Bare-metal deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to eliminate performance and cost overhead of hypervisors
- Integrated software-defined cloud-native storage
- Integrated backup and restore of application persistent volumes and metadata to both on-rack and off-rack backup targets
- High performance, low latency NVMe local storage
- Production ready from power-up in 4 hours
- Simple to scale compute and storage in the field
- Single point of contact for support of the complete solution
Key requirements: IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI requires Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which must be purchased by the client. OpenShift is not pre-entitled with the IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI appliance. The client must have sufficient OpenShift entitlement.
Planned availability date: September 17, 2021