IBM Cloud Storage Redbooks

24 April 2025, Redbooks

IBM Storage Insights combines decades of IBM® data management expertise with advanced analytics from IBM Research® to analyze performance across storage, fabric, and hosts. By using artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technology, it works with various storage systems to identify and isolate potential threats, protecting your data. By providing a single, unified view of your entire storage ...

16 April 2025, Draft Redbooks

IBM Storage FlashSystem is an enterprise-class all-flash storage system that delivers high performance, scalability, and data protection for demanding workloads. To fully realize the potential of IBM Stroage FlashSystem storage, a thorough understanding of their architecture, features, and optimal configuration is essential. This book serves as your comprehensive guide to maximizing IBM Storage ...

08 April 2025, 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 ...

19 March 2025, Redpaper

This IBM Redpaper publication describes IBM’s new cyber resiliency solution, IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS). By using DRS, users can leverage new detection mechanisms for their environment to detect threats early, and get a full view of the infrastructure by connecting primary storage arrays like IBM FlashSystem® and auxiliary storage solutions for backup, such as IBM Defender ...

19 February 2025, Redbooks

The IBM TS4500 Tape Library is a next-generation tape solution that offers higher storage density and better integrated management than previous solutions. This IBM Redbooks® publication gives you a close-up view of the new IBM TS4500 Tape Library. In the TS4500, IBM® delivers the density that today’s and tomorrow’s data growth requires. It has the cost-effectiveness and the manageability to ...

20 December 2024, Redpaper

The ever-expanding demands of data storage in today's information-intensive landscape place a significant burden on IT professionals tasked with managing storage infrastructure. Manual processes for provisioning resources, troubleshooting issues, and performing routine maintenance tasks can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, hindering overall efficiency. This IBM Redpaper equips you with ...

13 November 2024, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication details the configuration and best practices for using the IBM Storage FlashSystem® family of storage products within a VMware environment. Topics illustrate planning, configuring, operations, and preferred practices that include integration of IBM Storage FlashSystem storage systems with the VMware vCloud suite of applications: VMware vSphere Web Client ...

03 October 2024, Redpaper

The IBM TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for IBM DS8000® 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 ...

25 September 2024, Redpaper

Metro disaster recovery (DR) provides two-way synchronous data replication between IBM® Fusion HCI clusters installed at two sites. In the event of a site disaster, applications can be failed over to the second site. The replication between the sites is synchronous, hence, the Metro DR solution is only available for metropolitan distance data centers with 40 milliseconds latency or less. This ...

03 July 2024, 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 ...