IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition V5.0.4
Delivering SDS for reliable and durable storage management
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 25, 2019 at 2:20 pmIBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition V5.0.4 can provide enterprises of reliability and durability on commodity hardware:
- SDS supports a range of standard servers, disks, and networking
- For deployment in data centers and with storage-rich servers
Easy to deploy and manage across large clusters
It is designed to deliver a higher level of performance for an easy, flexible, and data-efficient, SD solution.
As data volumes grow and applications become more capable, more companies need the fast, highly available, and highly scalable data access of IBM Spectrum Scale to drive their business. V5.0 spans the enterprise storage portfolio, including flash, disk, tape, local, and cloud storage.
IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition adds the ability to protect files by storing them using erasure coding dispersed across multiple disks on multiple servers. This helps to ensure that data is not lost even if multiple servers, along with all their attached storage, are lost. With this level of protection, Spectrum Scale can be used reliably with storage-rich servers that, unlike enterprise arrays, have no intrinsic data durability of their own.
The challenge
Today’s data growth is challenging traditional storage and data management solutions. New applications and the IoT are generating massive amounts of unstructured data such as video, audio, and text files, and data must be managed across standard and cloud platforms.
Many IT organizations need to match their storage needs with infrastructure requirements for standardized commodity hardware such as storage rich servers, especially in large data centers.
The solution
Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition V5.0 uses network-dispersed erasure coding to spread each write across multiple servers and multiple disks using erasure coding. Even if multiple servers are lost, the erasure code can be used to reconstruct the data and recover it to a new location. This process works with standard data center servers, networks, and direct-attached disks, delivering a production-ready level of reliability and durability.
Key requirements
x86-based servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Planned availability date: October 18, 2019
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