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Product Details
What is IBM Spectrum Scale?
IBM Spectrum Scale is a multi-protocol, high-performance, highly available, clustered file system and associated management software. The vendor says IBM Spectrum Scale can scale in several dimensions, including performance (bandwidth and IOPS), capacity, and number of nodes (instances) that can mount the file system. IBM Spectrum Scale promises to address the capacity and performance requirements to support modern scale-out applications such as AI/ML/DL with multi-cloud support.
The latest version of IBM Spectrum Scale delivers a high level of performance for file storage. The vendor says the improvements were driven by the demands of providing the storage software for the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the US Department of Energy Summit system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Those same innovations are now available to commercial customers, and include major improvements across the product, including performance, space efficiency, improved installation and setup, more powerful GUI and improved security to help organizations address new regulations such as GDPR.
IBM Spectrum Scale Features
- Supported: Storage management at scale
- Supported: On-premises and/or multicloud
- Supported: Data economics
- Supported: Software-defined open platform
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IBM Spectrum Scale Competitors
- EMC/Isilon
- Lustre
- Netapp ONTAPP
IBM Spectrum Scale Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 3% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 17% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 80% |
IBM Spectrum Scale Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, IBM AIX v7 |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Worldwide |
Supported Languages | English |
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Spectrum Scale: Scale Efortlessly
- Easy scalability, vertically and horizontally.
- Active-active high availability across datacenters.
- Great to store massive amounts of data.
- Upgrading procedure, many times we had to do manual upgrades instead of the automatic one provided by IBM.
- Many advanced features are only available through the command line, it would be best they would be available on the GUI.
- More easy understanding of its compatibility matrix, regarding support for NFS and CIFS protocols.
Optimizing Storage Video Media
- Good for storage Optimizing.
- Good velocity.
- Strong agility in the product.
- Not suited for HPC.
- Doesn't work well for retail.
Customer Experience with ISS
I manage the information to help the several users access and create data for different departments.
IBM Spectrum Scale is a good solution for the requirements of our customers.
- It shares information
- It's efficient
- Good management of clusters
- Support for high availability
- Better ways to update
- Less outage time in the upgrades.
- More time between versions
IBM Spectrum Scale Review
- Provides a single pane of glass for storage management
- Orchestrates both IBM and non-IBM storage
- Can manage both cloud and on-premise storage
- Price
- Requires a learning curve and training to manage the product