How to Use IBM Cloud Object Storage When Building and Operating Cloud Native Applications
15 Nov 2018, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper™ publication presents a series of tutorials for cloud native developers just getting started with IBM Cloud™ and IBM Cloud Object Storage. Within the context of a car insurance application, this paper presents an ...
10 Jun 2020, Redbooks ... The digital enterprise has resulted in an explosion of data, and data volumes are expected to grow in zettabyte scale in the next few years. This explosive growth is largely fueled by unstructured data, such as video, social media, photos, ...
IBM Cloud Object Storage Concepts and Architecture
27 Oct 2021, Redpapers ... Object Storage is the primary storage solution that is used in the cloud and on-premises solutions as a central storage platform for unstructured data. Object Storage is growing more popular for the following reasons: It is ...
22 Nov 2022, Blueprint ... The focus of this IBM® Blueprint is to showcase a method to store volumes that are created by using Safeguarded Copy off-premise to Amazon S3 object storage that uses the IBM FlashSystem Transparent cloud tiering (TCT) feature. TCT ...
IBM TS7760 R4.2 Cloud Storage Tier Guide
14 Jun 2019, Redpapers ... Building on over 20 years of virtual tape experience, the TS7760 now supports the ability to store virtual tape volumes in an object store. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the new cloud object storage support ...
4 Mar 2021, Blueprint ... This Solution Redpaper™ publication explains how the features of IBM Cloud® Object Storage System reduces the effect of incidents on business data when combined with log analysis, deep inspection, and detection of threats that IBM QRadar ...
A Deployment Guide for IBM Spectrum Scale Unified File and Object Storage
24 May 2017, Redpapers ... Because of the explosion of unstructured data that is generated by individuals and organizations, a new storage paradigm that is called object storage has been developed. Object storage stores data in a flat namespace that ...
Enabling Hybrid Cloud Storage for IBM Spectrum Scale Using Transparent Cloud Tiering
31 May 2018, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information to help you with the sizing, configuration, and monitoring of hybrid cloud solutions using the transparent cloud tiering (TCT) functionality of IBM Spectrum™ Scale. IBM Spectrum Scale™ ...
Cyber Resilience Solution Across Hybrid Cloud Using IBM Storage Solutions
12 Nov 2020, Blueprint ... In today’s data driven world, the information and data of an organization is considered as the most important asset to its business. It can serve as key asset for growth of an organization. As more data are collected by organizations, it ...
1 Feb 2024, Redbooks ... Object storage is the primary storage solution that is used in the cloud and on-premises solutions as a central storage platform for unstructured data. IBM Cloud Object Storage is a software-defined storage (SDS) platform that breaks down ...
IBM TS7700 R5.3 Cloud Storage Tier Guide
26 Jan 2024, Redpapers ... Building on over 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 (IBM TS7760 and TS7770) now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper Redbooks publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object ...
IBM Cloud Object Storage Concepts and Architecture: System Edition
8 Apr 2023, Draft Redpapers ... Object Storage is the primary storage solution that is used in the cloud and on-premises solutions as a central storage platform for unstructured data. Object Storage is growing more popular for the following reasons: It is ...
Cloud Data Sharing with IBM Spectrum Scale
14 Feb 2017, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides information to help you with the sizing, configuration, and monitoring of hybrid cloud solutions using the Cloud data sharing feature of IBM Spectrum Scale™. IBM Spectrum Scale, formerly IBM General ...
IBM Storage Solutions for IBM Cloud Private Blueprint
15 Apr 2019, Blueprint ... IBM Storage Solutions for IBM Cloud™ Private delivers a blueprint for multicloud architecture. IBM, delivering solutions to help you win. In this blueprint, learn how to: Combine the benefits of IBM Systems with ...
IBM Storage Fusion Multicloud Object Gateway
31 Jan 2024, Redpapers ... This Redpaper provides an overview of IBM Storage Fusion Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) and can be used as a quick reference guide for the most common use cases. The intended audience is cloud and application administrators, as well as ...
IBM TS7700 R5 DS8000 Object Store User's Guide
7 Nov 2023, Redpapers ... The IBM® TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for transparent cloud tiering with IBM DS8000®, DFSMShsm (HSM), and native DFSMSdss (DSS). This function can be used to move data sets ...
27 Feb 2024, Redbooks ... This IBM Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R5.3. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems ...
19 Apr 2019, Redbooks ... This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R4.2. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems ...
IBM DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering: DS8000 Release 9.3
11 Aug 2023, Redbooks ... This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives a broad understanding of storage clouds and the initial functions that were introduced for mainframe data to be transferred to cloud storage . IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) and ...
27 Jun 2017, Redpapers ... The Swift High Latency Media project seeks to create a high-latency storage back end that makes it easier for users to perform bulk operations of data tiering within a Swift data ring. In today’s world, data is produced at significantly ...
Active Archive Implementation Guide with IBM Spectrum Scale Object and IBM Spectrum Archive
31 Mar 2016, Redpapers ... Enterprises are struggling to provide the right storage infrastructure to keep up with the explosion of unstructured data in addition to facing increased pressure to retain this data for an extended period of time. Object storage is ...
Using the IBM DS8870 in an OpenStack Cloud Environment
21 Jan 2014, Solution Guide ... The IBM® DS8870 comes with characteristics and functions that make it an ideal storage foundation for building a workload-aware cloud, especially with the availability of the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. The IBM Storage Driver for ...
IBM Storage Ceph Solutions Guide
1 Apr 2024, Draft Redpapers ... IBM® Storage Ceph is an IBM-supported distribution of the open-source Ceph platform that provides massively scalable object, block, and file storage in a single system. IBM Storage Ceph is designed to operationalize AI with enterprise ...
Optimize the Value of Your Data with Oracle and IBM Flash Storage Solutions
15 May 2020, Blueprint ... In this multicloud and cognitive era, information continues to grow rapidly. By 2025, IDC says worldwide data will grow by 61% to 175 zettabytes, with as much of the data in data centers as in the cloud. IT environments with Oracle ...
Benefits of Spectrum Scale with OpenStack Deployments
19 Jul 2016, Solution Guide ... IBM® Spectrum Scale is software that is used to manage storage, provide massive scale, a global namespace, and high performance with several enterprise features. IBM Spectrum™ Scale is used in clustered environments and provides file ...
18 Sep 2018, Redpapers ... Storage systems must provide reliable and convenient data access to all authorized users while simultaneously preventing threats coming from outside or even inside the enterprise. Security threats come in many forms, from unauthorized ...
IBM Spectrum Scale in an OpenStack Environment
9 Jun 2016, Redpapers ... OpenStack is open source software that is widely used as a base with which to build cloud and infrastructure as a service solutions. OpenStack often is deployed on commodity hardware and used to virtualize various parts of the ...
SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Backup and Recovery Solutions
27 May 2021, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks publication provides guidance about a backup and recovery solution for SAP High-performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) running on IBM Power Systems. This publication provides case studies and how-to procedures ...
4 May 2012, Redbooks ... This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives an overview of Cloud solutions, followed by detailed information and usage scenarios for IBM CloudBurst® in a System x® environment. Cloud computing can be defined as a style of computing in which ...
11 Mar 2024, Redpapers ... The IBM® DS8000® supports encryption-capable drives. They are used with key management services (local or external) to allow encryption for data at rest. The use of encryption technology involves several considerations that are critical ...
Protecting the VMware Environment with IBM Spectrum Protect
8 Jan 2018, Redpapers ... While backup is a topic of much discussion, development, and strategy, the name of the game is rapid recovery. Given the explosive growth of data in our Client environments, there is a need to provide solutions to our Clients that meet ...
IBM Spectrum Scale: Big Data and Analytics Solution Brief
17 Jul 2019, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redguide™ publication describes big data and analytics deployments that are built on IBM Spectrum Scale™. IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven enterprise-level distributed file system that is a high-performance and cost-effective ...
Storage Multi-tenancy for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with IBM Storage
18 Jun 2021, Redpapers ... With IBM® Spectrum Virtualize and the Object-Based Access Control, you can implement multi-tenancy and secure storage usage in a Red Hat OpenShift environment. This IBM Redpaper® publication shows you how to secure the storage usage from ...
25 Jul 2017, Product Guide ... This IBM® Redbooks product guide describes Fabric Vision technology. The use of virtualization, flash storage, and automation tools has allowed applications and services to be deployed faster while shattering performance barriers. The ...
IBM Spectrum Scale CSI Driver for Container Persistent Storage
10 Apr 2020, Redpapers ... IBM® Spectrum Scale is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution. It provides world-class storage management with extreme scalability, flash accelerated performance, automatic policy-based storage that has ...
DB2 9 for z/OS and Storage Management
17 Sep 2010, Archived Redbooks ... This IBM® Redbooks® publication can help you tailor and configure DFSMS constructs to be used in an IBM DB2® 9 for z/OS® environment. In addition, it provides a broad understanding of new disk architectures and their impact in DB2 data set ...
IBM Db2: Investigating Automatic Storage Table Spaces and Data Skew
20 Jul 2017, Redpapers ... The scope of this IBM® Redpaper™ publication is to provide a high-level overview of automatic storage table spaces, table space maps, table space extent maps, and physically unbalanced data across automatic storage table space containers ...
Cataloging Unstructured Data in IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog with IBM Spectrum Discover
11 Aug 2020, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper publication explains how IBM Spectrum® Discover integrates with the IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog (WKC) component of IBM Cloud® Pak for Data (IBM CP4D) to make the enriched catalog content in IBM Spectrum Discover along ...
Accelerating IBM watsonx.data with IBM Fusion HCI
1 Apr 2024, Redpapers ... Organizations that are expanding from AI pilot projects to full-scale production systems typically need a set of tools for building and deploying foundation models, a container-based application platform, software-defined storage, and ...
IBM Software-Defined Storage Guide
21 Jul 2018, Redpapers ... Today, new business models in the marketplace coexist with traditional ones and their well-established IT architectures. They generate new business needs and new IT requirements that can only be satisfied by new service models and new ...
Making Data Smarter with IBM Spectrum Discover: Practical AI Solutions
19 Oct 2020, Redbooks ... More than 80% of all data that is collected by organizations is not in a standard relational database. Instead, it is trapped in unstructured documents, social media posts, machine logs, and so on. Many organizations face significant ...
IBM XIV Storage System Product Guide
28 Jan 2015, Product Guide ... The IBM XIV storage delivers a high-end flash cache optimized storage that is well-suited for heterogeneous workloads and requirements of cloud deployments. The system, with its parallel grid architecture, is designed to be hotspot-free ...
IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Solution
31 May 2013, Solution Guide ... With data growth showing no signs of slowing, it is imperative that organizations improve their storage efficiency and reduce administration complexity. The need for economic and operational efficiencies transcends all organizations. ...
Optimizing Restore and Recovery Solutions with DB2 Recovery Expert for z/OS V2.1
20 Feb 2009, Archived Redbooks ... IBM DB2 Recovery Expert manages the recovery of DB2 for z/OS V8 and V9 objects in a data sharing and non-data sharing environment. The major focus of IBM DB2 Recovery Expert V2.1 for z/OS (5697-N92) is on DB2 system level backup and ...
IBM Spectrum Discover: Metadata Management for Deep Insight of Unstructured Storage
1 Oct 2019, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper publication provides a comprehensive overview of the IBM Spectrum® Discover metadata management software platform. We give a detailed explanation of how the product creates, collects, and analyzes metadata. Several ...
8 Jun 2015, Solution Guide ... IBM® SmartCloud® Virtual Storage Center V5.2 enables easy migration to agile, cloud-based storage environments. This solution comprises the advanced functions available in IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center, IBM System Storage® SAN ...
IBM Power10 - Engineered for Agility
19 Apr 2024 ... The Power E1080 introduces the essential enterprise hybrid cloud platform—uniquely architected to help you securely and efficiently scale core operational and AI applications in a hybrid cloud.
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IBM Spectrum Family: IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition
15 Mar 2016, Redbooks ... IBM® Spectrum Control (Spectrum Control), a member of the IBM Spectrum™ Family of products, is the next-generation data management solution for software-defined environments (SDEs). With support for block, file, object workloads, and ...
Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2
29 Mar 2016, Redbooks ... Data is the new currency of business, the most critical asset of the modern organization. In fact, enterprises that can gain business insights from their data are twice as likely to outperform their competitors. Nevertheless, 72% of them ...
IBM Wave for z/VM: An Introduction
24 Feb 2014, Solution Guide ... IBM® Wave is a z/VM® hypervisor manager product that was acquired when IBM acquired CSI International. This product provides a graphical interface tool that simplifies management and administration of z/VM and Linux environments on IBM ...
14 Jan 2015, Solution Guide ... Cloud computing represents a shift to a more user-centered computing model where a layer of services sitting on an infrastructure decouples core business functions from the delivery of the underlying technology. IBM® recognizes that ...
Understanding Cloud Security Guidelines for IBM Power Systems
18 Dec 2014, Solution Guide ... This IBM Redbooks Solution Guide is an initial guide that introduces cloud security considerations for IBM® Power Systems™. Power Systems are uniquely suited for cloud environments, with their industry leading virtualization, ...
IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator V7 High Availability and Disaster Recovery
21 Oct 2020, Redpapers ... IBM® Db2® Analytics Accelerator is a workload optimized appliance add-on to IBM DB2® for IBM z/OS® that enables the integration of analytic insights into operational processes to drive business critical analytics and exceptional business ...
Optimizing Database Administration with IBM DB2 Autonomics for z/OS
17 Jul 2015, Solution Guide ... We live in an age when data is one of an organization’s most important assets. Companies want the ability to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. Being agile and applying predictive analytics is the key to ...
Getting Started with IBM Bluemix: Web Application Hosting Scenario on Java Liberty
16 Feb 2015, Solution Guide ... Based on the open source Cloud Foundry technology, IBM Bluemix is an open-standard, cloud-based platform for building, managing, and running applications of all types such as web, mobile, big data, new smart devices, and so on. Bluemix ...
IBM Cloudant: The Do-More NoSQL Data Layer
27 Mar 2015, Solution Guide ... Cloudant represents a strategic acquisition by IBM® that extends the company’s Big Data and Analytics portfolio to include a fully managed, NoSQL cloud service. Cloudant simplifies the development cycle for creators of fast-growing web and ...
SAP Solutions on IBM DB2 UDB V8.2.2 Handbook
29 Mar 2006, Archived Redbooks ... IBM and SAP share a vision for responding to customers' specific requirements for tighter integration, platform flexibility, lower total cost of ownership, and improved performance. DB2 UDB V8.2.2 is an SAP-optimized version that uses ...
IBM Redbooks highlighting POWER9 processor-based technology
19 Apr 2024 ... IBM's new Power System E980 and E950 servers top off the POWER9 family with scalability of up to 64 TB of memory, up to 192 POWER9 technology based processor cores, and PCIe Gen4 I/O expandability. They are designed for industry leading ...
IBM Power System IC922 Technical Overview and Introduction
20 May 2021, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System IC922 (9183-22X) server that uses IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and supports Linux operating systems (OSs). The objective of this paper is to ...
Platform as a Service with IBM PureApplication System
29 Aug 2013, Solution Guide ... Through an integrated system of hardware and software, IBM® PureApplication™ System provides a single interface to control the platform and infrastructure elements. This interface adds further value to the software patterns concept by ...
XML for DB2 Information Integration
15 Jul 2004, Archived Redbooks ... In many organizations, relational databases are the backbone for data storage and retrieval. Over the last couple of years, XML has become the de facto standard to exchange information between organizations, as well as between departments ...
28 Nov 2017, Product Guide ... This IBM® Redbooks® Product Guide describes IBM Network Advisor Version 14.0. Although every network type has unique management requirements, most organizations face similar challenges managing their network environments. These challenges ...
Linux on System z: An Ideal Platform to Migrate Your IT Workload
26 Jun 2014, Solution Guide ... There are many reasons why you might want to optimize your servers through virtualization using Linux on IBM® System z®: Too many distributed physical servers with low utilization A lengthy provisioning process that ...
DB2 for z/OS and WebSphere: The Perfect Couple
18 Jan 2005, Archived Redbooks ... DB2 for z/OS is a high performance DBMS, with a very strong reputation in high volume transaction workloads based on relational technology. WebSphere Application Server is a transaction monitor based on object-oriented technology, very ...
DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 Performance Topics
1 Oct 2007, Archived Redbooks ... IBM DATABASE 2 Universal Database Server for z/OS Version 8 (DB2 V8 throughout this IBM Redbooks publication) is the twelfth and largest release of DB2 for MVS. It brings synergy with the zSeries hardware and exploits the z/OS 64-bit ...
DB2 9 for z/OS: Backup and Recovery I/O Related Performance Considerations
10 Oct 2008, Archived Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper provides best practices and I/O-related performance considerations for backup and recovery using DB2® 9 for z/OS®. It describes some guidelines for DB2 for z/OS backup and recovery, then it discusses performance ...
IBM Power Systems LC921 and LC922: Technical Overview and Introduction
10 Dec 2019, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power Systems™ LC921 and LC922 (9006-12P and 9006-22P)) servers that use the current IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and supports Linux operating systems ...
The Value and Benefits of IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Running on IBM System z
26 Nov 2014, Solution Guide ... New technologies, such as Hadoop, use a map/reduce paradigm that enables parallel processing of massive volumes of differently structured data that is spread across potentially hundreds and thousands of nodes. This breaks down the analysis ...
24 Nov 2015, Product Guide ... The IBM® FlashSystem™ V840 delivers high performance, efficiency, and reliability for shared enterprise storage environments, while simplifying data management, improving data security, and preserving your investments in storage with ...
IBM Power System S812LC Technical Overview and Introduction
10 Apr 2017, Redpapers ... This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System™ S812LC (8347-21C) servers that use the latest IBM POWER8® processor technology and supports the Linux operating system (OS). The objective of this ...
Using the IBM Big Data and Analytics Platform to Gain Operational Efficiency
1 Apr 2014, Solution Guide ... One way for businesses to improve their operational efficiency is by expanding their knowledge of existing customers, improving the coordination of customer information across channels, and correlating events that impact customer value. ...
DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 Technical Preview
26 Sep 2003, Archived Redbooks ... IBM DATABASE 2 Universal Database Server for z/OS Version 8 (DB2 V8 throughout this IBM book) is the twelfth and largest release of DB2 for MVS. It brings synergy with the zSeries hardware and exploits the z/OS 64-bit virtual addressing ...
DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, ... and More
11 Apr 2005, Archived Redbooks ... IBM DATABASE 2 Universal Database Server for z/OS Version 8 is the twelfth and largest release of DB2 for MVS. It brings new synergy with the zSeries hardware and is the first major subsystem to exploit the z/OS 64-bit virtual addressing ...
Elastic Caching with IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale
19 Dec 2013, Solution Guide ... IBM® WebSphere® eXtreme Scale provides a solution to scalability issues through caching and grid technology. It provides an enhanced quality of service (QoS) in high performance computing environments. This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide ...
Data Integration in the Big Data World Using IBM InfoSphere Information Server
29 Mar 2015, Solution Guide ... An Apache Hadoop infrastructure offers great promise for drastically reducing the costs of storing and processing large data volumes and increasing ROI. However, Hadoop cannot deliver the opportunities by using only its infrastructure. ...
14 Mar 2023, Solution Guide ... Available with the IBM DB2®10.5 release, BLU Acceleration delivers unparalleled performance improvements for analytic applications and reporting using dynamic in-memory optimized columnar technologies. BLU Acceleration is one of the most ...
IBM DS8870 with Firmware Release 7.5 Product Guide
2 Jul 2015, Product Guide ... Built on over 50 years of Enterprise storage expertise, the IBM® DS8000® series is the flagship storage system within the IBM System Storage® portfolio. The IBM DS8870 represents the most recent in this series of high-performance, ...
7 Mar 2014, Archived Solution Guide ... IBM® Intelligent Operations Center is an integrated solution. It provides a rich set of capabilities and line-of-business tools that business users with domain expertise and no technical background can use immediately. IBM Intelligent ...
IMS and VSAM replication using GDPS
19 Nov 2014, Solution Guide ... What is GDPS® Active/Active? What are the benefits? This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide publication will answer these questions and discuss the link between the business need and the technology. For more information, see the IBM Redbooks ...
Universal Messaging with IBM MQ V8
12 Dec 2014, Archived Solution Guide ... By implementing messaging technologies, businesses can use a consistent approach to connectivity, decoupling the business application from the complex tasks of handling failures, error recovery, transaction integrity, security, and ...
IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities
15 Nov 2012, Archived Solution Guide ... The IBM® Intelligent Operations Center solution integrates and uses data from multiple sources and makes sense of it on a single interface. It simplifies the disarray and multiplication of data sources that are necessary for understanding, ...
Employing Strategies for Optimizing your IBM POWER8 (and Earlier) Processor-based Systems
3 Apr 2017, Solution Guide ... Critical business needs can be met with more assurance in an optimized, well-tuned environment. This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide describes some of the strategies for optimizing and tuning application code to run on IBM POWER8™ and ...
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