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Introduction Guide to the IBM Elastic Storage System
Storage Solutions
Draft Redpaper, last updated 25 Jan 2021
This IBM® Redpaper® publication provides an overview of the IBM Elastic Storage® Server (ESS) and IBM Elastic Storage System, which are scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, which is built on proven IBM Spectrum® Scale technology. Providing reliability, performance, and scalability, IBM Elastic Storage Servers and IBM Elastic Storage Systems can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. This publication helps you to understand the solution and its architecture, and walks you through ordering the right solution for your environment, planning the installation ... [more]
Using the IBM Block Storage CSI driver in a Red Hat OpenShift environment
Storage Solutions
Draft Redpaper, last updated 25 Jan 2021
This IBM Redpaper describes the concepts, technology and current working practices for installing the Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in for Kubernetes to leverage IBM Enterprise Storage platforms for persistent storage coupled with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). This book serves as a guide on how to deploy the CSI driver for block storage using the DS8000® and Spectrum Virtualize platforms as persistent storage for containers. The publication is intended for storage administrators, IT architects, OpenShift technical specialists and anyone who wants to integrate IBM ... [more]
IBM DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (Updated for DS8000 R9.1)
Storage Solutions
Draft Redpaper, last updated 21 Jan 2021
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication explains the IBM DS8000 Safeguarded Copy functionality. With Safeguarded Copy, organizations have the ability to improve their cyber resiliency by frequently creating protected point-in-time backups of their critical data, with minimum impact and effective resource utilization. The paper introduces Safeguarded Copy and discusses the need for logical corruption protection (LCP) and information about regulatory requirements. It presents the general concepts of LCP, and then explore various use cases for recovery. The paper is intended for IT security ... [more]
Data Accelerator for AI and Analytics
Storage Software
Redpaper, published 20 Jan 2021
This IBM® Redpaper publication focuses on data orchestration in enterprise data pipelines. It provides details about data orchestration and how to address typical challenges that customers face when dealing with large and ever-growing amounts of data for data analytics. While the amount of data increases steadily, artificial intelligence (AI) workloads must speed up to deliver insights and business value in a timely manner. This paper provides a solution that addresses these needs: Data Accelerator for AI and Analytics (DAAA). A proof of concept (PoC) is described in detail. This paper ... [more]
IBM Power Systems for SAS Viya 3.5 Deployment Guide
Power Systems
Draft Redbooks, last updated 19 Jan 2021
This IBM Redbooks publication provides options and best practices for deploying SAS Viya 3.5 on IBM POWER9 servers. SAS Viya is a complex set of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics solutions that require a properly planned infrastructure to meet the needs of the data scientists, business analysts, and application developers who will use Viya capabilities in their daily work activities. Regardless of the user role, the underlying infrastructure matters to ensure performance expectations and service level agreement (SLA) requirements are met or exceeded. Although the general planning ... [more]