Empowering Tomorrow: IBM Storage's Transformative Journey, Seamless Integration with Watsonx, and Cyber Resilience Insights

This week's highlights include: How IBM Storage is separating themselves from it's competitors by offering a full suite of enterprise applications, crucial to a businesses ongoing transformative journey, IBM Storage Fusion's key role alongside Watsonx, and the ongoing race to becoming Cyber Resilient for businesses. You are not going to want to miss this one!

IBM Storage stands as a transformative powerhouse, offering a comprehensive portfolio that includes cutting-edge hardware, software-defined solutions, and storage management software. The key differentiator lies in its commitment to guiding companies through their transformative journeys, providing not just data storage but a full stack of enterprise applications. This holistic approach ensures that data is not only secure and easily accessible but also a catalyst for innovation. What sets IBM apart is its singular support system and vendor assistance throughout the entire journey, offering a seamless and reliable experience. From market-leading solutions like IBM Storage FlashSystem to innovative software offerings like IBM Storage Fusion and Defender, IBM Storage is not just about safeguarding data; it's about empowering businesses for a future driven by hybrid cloud, big data, and AI. Learn more (Here)

IBM Storage Fusion seamlessly integrates with Watsonx and Watsonx.data, providing an optimized architecture for Watsonx without the need for custom design. This streamlined solution allows rapid deployment in under a week and offers a single point of entry for comprehensive IBM support. Fusion accelerates Watsonx.ai and Watsonx.data application stacks, ensuring high performance, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery services. Ceph Ready Nodes simplify S3 object storage deployment for the Watsonx.data lake house. With a plug-in infrastructure supporting on-premises and hybrid-cloud deployment, Fusion eliminates infrastructure complexities, delivering a cloud-like experience. IBM Storage enhances Watsonx.data queries with a 90x speed boost, reduces storage costs by 50%, and improves resource utilization by 20%. It enables unified access to data across on-premises and cloud environments, optimizing data warehousing costs by up to 50%. In essence, the integration creates an efficient, cost-effective solution for streamlined data management and accelerated analytics. Video (Here)

In this insightful conversation with Del Hoobler, IBM's Principal Storage Specialist, the focus is on the paramount importance of cyber and data resilience. Del emphasizes the evolving landscape of cyber threats and the need for organizations to go beyond traditional backup approaches. He highlights that being data resilient involves not only fortifying perimeter defenses but ensuring secure and immutable copies of data. Real-life examples, such as a city in Massachusetts and a Midwest hospital, underscore the critical nature of quick data recovery for essential services. Del encourages organizations to take the first step toward cyber resilience, advocating for preventative measures, proactive testing, and collaborative efforts between security, infrastructure, and storage teams. The discussion reinforces the urgency for businesses, irrespective of size, to embark on a cyber resilience journey, emphasizing that the cyber resilience assessment, a No-Cost and vendor-agnostic offering from IBM, is a valuable starting point for understanding and improving data resilience. Video (Here)

IBM's Cyber Resiliency Assessment as mentioned above:

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