IBM Storage software Redbooks

20 March 2026, Redbooks

The IBM FlashSystem® grid is an innovative and efficient solution for overcoming data storage management challenges. This federated, scalable storage platform enables unified management of multiple IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Virtualize (IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)) controllers. Its key strengths include unmatched scale-out capability and streamlined, non-disruptive management across ...

15 March 2026, Draft Redpaper

The business world is being transformed rapidly by artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), analytics, and hybrid cloud technologies. Unlike traditional applications that work with structured data that is stored in databases, these new workloads operate on a vast ocean of unstructured data, such as documents, images, videos, audio recordings, log files, or any other ...

05 February 2026, Redpaper

IBM Storage Protect for Cloud (SP4C) is an offering from IBM® that provides data protection for software as a service (SaaS) applications. This IBM Redpaper publication describes its capabilities and explains how to install, configure, and monitor the software to protect and monitor backups. Many organizations overestimate the level of protection that is provided by cloud service providers ...

21 January 2026, Redpaper

Building on 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 to offload to physical ...

06 January 2026, Redbooks

Cyberattacks and data corruption threats continue to escalate, which makes cyber resiliency a critical component of an enterprise IT strategy. Although traditional disaster recovery (DR) focuses on physical failures, cyber resiliency addresses logical corruption that is caused by ransomware, malware, or insider threats. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Z® Cyber Vault solution, ...

15 December 2025, Redpaper

This Redpaper describes a high performance file and block access solution using IBM® Storage Virtualize and IBM Storage Scale to provide file access interfaces suited for diverse workloads— traditional, cloud-era, and emerging (example: SAP, web applications, genome analysis). It offers a step- by-step guide for implementation engineers to integrate IBM FlashSystem® and legacy IBM Storwize® for ...

30 October 2025, Draft Redpaper

IBM Storage Insights is a cloud-based service providing essential observability for analyzing, protecting, and optimizing your storage infrastructure. It gives administrators critical metadata-derived metrics on performance, capacity, and security. To enhance operational efficiency and proactive issue resolution, this metadata can be disseminated to various ecosystem services throughout your ...

29 October 2025, Redbooks

IBM® Storage Ceph delivers high-performance, scalable block storage designed to efficiently manage large data sets. This IBM Redbooks® publication offers a comprehensive examination of IBM Storage Ceph Block Storage, exploring its architecture and core components to provide readers with a deep understanding of its functionality and scalability. It highlights a wide range of practical use cases, ...

20 October 2025, Redbooks

IBM® Fusion HCI as a Catalyst explores how IBM Fusion Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) serves as a strategic enabler for the IBM watsonx® platform, transforming infrastructure from a passive resource layer into an active catalyst for AI-driven enterprise innovation. This Redbook provides a comprehensive roadmap for planning, deploying, and managing watsonx solutions on Fusion HCI, covering ...

13 October 2025, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you with the planning, installation, and configuration of the new IBM Spectrum® Archive Enterprise Edition (EE) Version 1.3.2.2 for the IBM TS4500, IBM TS3500, IBM TS4300, and IBM TS3310 tape libraries. IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition enables the use of the LTFS for the policy management of tape as a storage tier in an IBM Spectrum Scale based ...