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IBM Elastic Storage Server (IBM ESS) is a software-defined storage option.

IBM Elastic Storage Server

Software-Defined Storage Solutions (SDS) encompasses a range of application and policy defined storage provisioning, storage virtualization and storage management automation. Related to software-defined networks (SDN) and datacenters (SDDC), SDS essentially decouples physical infrastructure as a constraint to storage management to the extent possible.

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IBM Elastic Storage is a highly available and highly scalable software based storage system for AI and Big Data. We had high performance use cases for our AI applications for an AI based product that we were building and IBM Elastic storage looked like a perfect solution.This service simplified the storage for Data and Model management and we were easily able to storage huge multiple types of data include images, natural language as well as structured datasets using this solution.

Very High Availability and Scalability
Works particularly well for AI and Big Data usecases
Easily unifies all sorts and types of Data

Integration with other Big Data Platforms like EMR and Databricks needed
May not be suitable for non AI related/Legacy usecases
Native support for structured relational datasets

High scalability for AI and Big Data usecase
Integration with IBM Data platform

Faster read/write data pipeline workloads
Faster time to load models from Storage
Improved inference time for models

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform) and Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified  Analytics Platform)

ESS is a robustly articulated architecture built mainly focusing on file sharing and reliability. We could able to overcome some major challenges like sharing files across multiple teams located in different GEOS and seamlessly copying/migrating data across multi-site environments. In addition, we overcome one of the major hurdles of multiprotocol access and a perfect stack of affordable distributed storage array

Powerful processing power, literally support unlimited scale out storage capabilities
well integrated and supported with multi flavor environment and file systems.
Huge capacity with in a very reduced form factor of disks/enclosures

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

Erasure Coding
Policy based tiering
Cyber secure lockable data and audit trailsGlobal sharing and collaboration
Global sharing and collaboration

When the cost and price dynamics comes into account, we have replaced age old traditional arrays with almost negligible cost with ESS
able to extend the capabilities of global teams to work and share their experiences and knowledge with other teams.

IBM Elastic Storage Server or IBM Elastic Storage Server is one of the best scalable, high-performance storage appliances available in the market. We are using IBM Elastic Storage Server for Big Data Application storage which needs on-demand scalability and high performance. IBM Elastic Storage Server is best suited for such purpose as it has reduced our maintenance and operational issues with the traditional on premise storage solution.

On demand high scalability
High performance specially for Big Data and AI Applications
Less operation and maintenance cost

Integration and configuration need a bit more technical expertise which is I guess expected.
There can be some improvement in integration with Legacy applications.

Scalability
Reliability
High Performance
Better integration with other Appliances

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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IBM Elastic Storage Server

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What is IBM Elastic Storage Server?