Expert Talks

Spectrum Scale Strategy UpdateToday is the AI era and we are going through huge explosion of data. Besides the AI revolution, we have clouds, hybrid clouds and data is moving from "on-prem" to various clouds, multi-clouds and back. Coupled with this data growth, Hardware is evolving with an increasing factor of 10. The IBM Spectrum …

Update on File Create and MMAP performance, optimised code for small DIO. Spectrum Scale is a highly scalable, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale performance, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This presentation will discuss performance related improvements in Spectrum V5, focusing on enhancements …

Spectrum Scale is a highly scalable, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage. It started more than 20 years ago as research project and is now used by thousands of customers. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This presentation will discuss selected improvements in Spectrum …

This episode will discuss the Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface (CSI). CSI is a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage systems to containerized workloads on container orchestration systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. Spectrum Scale CSI provides your containers fast access to files stored in Spectrum Scale with capabilities such as dynamic provisioning of …

This episode will provide a comprehensive introduction to the IBM Spectrum Scale policy engine. It highlights the underlying architecture and how policies are executed in a IBM Spectrum Scale cluster. This episode also discusses example rules and policies facilitating Information Lifecycle Management accompanied with practical tips.   Download slides here References Whitepaper: IBM Spectrum Scale …