IBM Storage solutions Redbooks

04 December 2023, Redpaper

The IBM® DS8000® supports encryption-capable drives. They are used with key management services (local or external) to allow encryption for data at rest. The use of encryption technology involves several considerations that are critical for you to understand to maintain the security and accessibility of encrypted data. This edition of this IBM Redpaper™ publication focuses on IBM Security™ ...

28 November 2023, Draft Redpaper

IBM® Storage Ceph is an IBM-supported distribution of the open-source Ceph platform that provides massively scalable object, block, and file storage in a single system. IBM Storage Ceph is designed to operationalize AI with enterprise resiliency and consolidate data with software simplicity and run on multiple hardware platforms to provide flexibility and lower costs. Engineered to be ...

22 November 2023, Draft Redpaper

This IBM Blueprint outlines how CMTG and IBM have partnered to provide cyber resilient services to their clients. CMTG is one of Australia's leading private cloud providers based in Perth, Western Australia. The solution is based on IBM Storage FlashSystem, IBM Safeguarded Copy and IBM Storage Copy Data Management. The target audience for this Blueprint is IBM Storage technical specialists and ...

08 November 2023, Redpaper

The IBM® TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for transparent cloud tiering with IBM DS8000®, DFSMShsm (HSM), and native DFSMSdss (DSS). This function can be used to move data sets directly from DS8000 to TS7700. This IBM Redpaper publication provides a functional overview of the features, provides client value information, and walks ...

25 October 2023, Redpaper

IBM Cloud Pak® for Data can be protected with IBM Storage Fusion™. This IBM Redpaper publication covers backing up IBM Cloud Pak for Data with a non-disruptive (online) backup and then restoring to an alternate cluster. During an online backup, normal runtime operations in the Cloud Pak for Data cluster continue while the backup completes. The backup process includes creating policies and ...

23 October 2023, Redbooks

IBM Storage Sentinel is a cyber resiliency solution for SAP HANA, Oracle, and Epic healthcare systems, designed to help organizations enhance ransomware detection and incident recovery. IBM Storage Sentinel automates the creation of immutable backup copies of your data, then uses machine learning to detect signs of possible corruption and generate forensic reports that help you quickly diagnose ...

12 October 2023, Draft Redbooks

The IBM® Diamondback tape library is the next-generation ultra-high density tape storage solution available from IBM. The Diamondback is designed to easily scale out and fit into any data center or server room, with each frame having only the footprint of a standard server rack. Designed with a focus on simplicity and density, the library can be deployed quickly and easily managed using either ...

03 October 2023, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes several of the preferred practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM SAN Volume Controller powered by IBM Spectrum® Virtualize V8.4. These practices are based on field experience. This book highlights configuration guidelines and preferred practices for the storage area network (SAN) topology, clustered ...

29 September 2023, Draft Redpaper

Organizations that are expanding from AI pilot projects to full-scale production systems typically need a set of tools for building and deploying foundation models, a container-based application platform, software-defined storage, and hardware on which to run it all. This IBM Redpaper describes the IBM solution for running IBM watsonx.data on-premise, with IBM Storage Fusion HCI providing an ...

22 September 2023, Draft Redpaper

This Redpaper provides an overview of IBM Storage Fusion Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) and can be used as a quick reference guide for the most common use cases. The intended audience is cloud and application administrators, as well as other technical staff members who wish to learn how MCG works, how to set it up, and usage of a Backing Store or Namespace Store, as well as object ...