Which offering provides scale-out parallel processing and dynamically accelerates performance of analytics clusters when integrated with the IBM FlashSystem?
Although Spectrum Scale and FlashSystem are both available by themselves, and there's no requirement to combine them, doing so can result in the IT equivalent of ''1+1=3.'' Each solution complements the other in supporting the needs of two of today's most common, fastgrowing ''application ecosystems''---private clouds and [big] data analytics. Both of those application ecosystems must deliver extreme capacity and extreme performance simultaneously and economically. If only one or two of the scale/speed/economy attributes is needed, then each of the IBM products can stand alone very well. But where all three are prerequisites, the joint IBM solution shines.
A customer with NAS and block storage is looking at IBM Software-Defined Storage as a means to improve storage efficiency within a data center.
Which product from the IBM Software-Defined Storage Control Plane will help the customer?
Which storage solution should the technical specialist propose to a customer with a large VMware environment and an IBM System z?
A customer needs to implement a block storage solution to achieve performance advantages using a hybrid disk configuration of flash cards, 15K drives, and 7.2K drives.
Which product should the technical specialist propose?
A customer has experienced a high rate of drive failure and loss of data in its environment and is considering IBM XIV to replace the existing storage.
Which IBM XIV benefit should the technical specialist hightlight to the customer?
When an IBM XIV disk fails, all disks in the system participate in the rebuild. The outcome? It takes less time for theXIV system to restore full redundancy. For example, if a disk on a fully used 1 TB drive system fails, XIV restores full redundancy in an average of 30 minutes or less, and without a significant performance penalty. Traditional RAID systems might take up to a day to restore data reliability, with performance compromised during rebuild. The fast XIV rebuild time means that your data spends less time that is exposed to risk. In this way, the XIV system actually protects your data more than traditional enterprise storage systems can.
