IBM® Storage as a Service (STaaS) extends your hybrid cloud experience with a new flexible consumption model enabled for both your on-premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure needs, giving you the agility, cash flow efficiency, and services of cloud storage with the flexibility to dynamically scale up or down and only pay for what you use beyond the minimal capacity.

This IBM Redpaper provides a detailed introduction to the IBM STaaS service. The paper is targeted for data center managers and storage administrators.

Introduction to IBM Block Storage as a Service for IBM Storage FlashSystem and for IBM Storage DS8900F

STaaS drivers and customer expectations

Three performance tier levels

Life cycle of the solution

Pricing

Metering

Hybrid cloud use cases

Storage pay-per-use market overview

Data security and high availability considerations

Supporting the solution

Planning

IBM FlashSystem storage solutions

IBM DS8900F storage solutions

Ordering Information