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IBM Elastic Storage Server

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IBM Elastic Storage Server
Score 8.3 out of 10
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IBM Elastic Storage Server (IBM ESS) is a software-defined storage option.N/A
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IBM ESS is optimized for AI and Big Data usecases while S3 is a general purpose storage solutions. EMR and Databricks have lakehouse/data warehousing solutions for distributed computing but are more optimized for just the big data pipelining solutions and not essentially for AI …
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Robost design based on powerful processor, which leverages the complete power of the system at a blaze speed
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We have used Cisco Cloud Object Storage earlier which is also a good object storage solution. COS has partnered with multiple vendors for object storage solutions and IBM storage solution is one of them. As far as the high performance of AI and Big Data applications is …
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IBM Elastic Storage Server
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IBM Elastic Storage Server
Likelihood to Recommend
1. Perfect solution for geographically separated teams to work on sharing files/media. 2. Mainly suitable for CCTV/video recordings as the network speed and disk throughput is mammoth 3. Suites well for organizations looking for their own private cloud object storage solutions 4. primarily focused on hosting next-generation of applications centric to AI/IOT and ML.
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Pros
  • Very High Availability and Scalability
  • Works particularly well for AI and Big Data usecases
  • Easily unifies all sorts and types of Data
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Cons
  • The maintenance procedure is not straight forward, needs lots of steps/dependency on spectrum scale software
  • Should have an option to deliver as an bundled components under IBM, instead of individual components from different vendors
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Alternatives Considered
IBM ESS is optimized for AI and Big Data usecases while S3 is a general purpose storage solutions. EMR and Databricks have lakehouse/data warehousing solutions for distributed computing but are more optimized for just the big data pipelining solutions and not essentially for AI usecases, especially for inference, when you need to load model artifacts really quickly.
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Return on Investment
  • On demand scalability helped us in better projection of storage requirement
  • With reduced human resource for operation and maintenance of storage, ROI has been increased a lot.
  • High performance of Big Data applications using IBM Elastic Storage Server has improved the business.
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