IBM Storage software Redbooks

15 May 2026, Redpaper

The IBM® Storage DS8000® series provides the option to replace locally managed user ID and password authentication with a centralized, directory-based model. This IBM Redpaper publication assists storage administrators in understanding the concepts and advantages of centralized directory services. It describes the requirements for implementing an authentication mechanism based on the Lightweight ...

09 May 2026, Draft Redbooks

This IBM Redbooks publication describes how IBM Storage Scale enables organizations to manage “abstract data”—data that spans multiple storage tiers, geographic locations, and storage technologies—through a single, unified global namespace. It explains the underlying architecture and key capabilities, including storage pools, filesets, policy‑driven Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), ...

06 May 2026, Draft Redpaper

This IBM Redpaper publication describes IBM’s new cyber resiliency solution, IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS). By using DRS, users can leverage new detection mechanisms for their environment to detect threats early, and get a full view of the infrastructure by connecting primary storage arrays like IBM FlashSystem® and auxiliary storage solutions for backup, such as IBM Defender ...

13 April 2026, Redpaper

IBM Storage Insights is a cloud-based service that provides observability for analyzing, protecting, and optimizing your storage infrastructure. It provides administrators with metadata-derived metrics on performance, capacity, and security. You can disseminate this metadata to various ecosystem services throughout your organization to enhance operational efficiency and proactive issue ...

08 April 2026, Redpaper

The business world is being transformed rapidly by artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), analytics, and hybrid cloud technologies. Unlike traditional applications that work with structured data that is stored in databases, these new workloads operate on a vast ocean of unstructured data, such as documents, images, videos, audio recordings, log files, or any other ...

26 March 2026, Redbooks Experience

This comprehensive technical reference provides system administrators and system programmers with detailed guidance for deploying and managing IBM Storage Scale storage clusters in environments orchestrated by NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM). The document addresses the unique integration challenges of combining BCM's image-based provisioning model with Storage Scale's cluster management ...

20 March 2026, Redbooks

The IBM FlashSystem® grid is an innovative and efficient solution for overcoming data storage management challenges. This federated, scalable storage platform enables unified management of multiple IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Virtualize (IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)) controllers. Its key strengths include unmatched scale-out capability and streamlined, non-disruptive management across ...

05 February 2026, Redpaper

IBM Storage Protect for Cloud (SP4C) is an offering from IBM® that provides data protection for software as a service (SaaS) applications. This IBM Redpaper publication describes its capabilities and explains how to install, configure, and monitor the software to protect and monitor backups. Many organizations overestimate the level of protection that is provided by cloud service providers ...

21 January 2026, Redpaper

Building on 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 to offload to physical ...

06 January 2026, Redbooks

Cyberattacks and data corruption threats continue to escalate, which makes cyber resiliency a critical component of an enterprise IT strategy. Although traditional disaster recovery (DR) focuses on physical failures, cyber resiliency addresses logical corruption that is caused by ransomware, malware, or insider threats. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Z® Cyber Vault solution, ...