Say hello to the ultimate AI data acceleration engine! Introducing IBM Storage Scale System 6000

To leverage the economic value of both foundation and traditional AI models, businesses must focus on the data – their current capacity and growth forecasts, where the data resides, how it's secured and accessed, and how to optimise future data storage investments.

IBM recently introduced the new IBM Storage Scale System 6000, a cloud-scale global data platform designed to meet today's data intensive and AI workload demands, and the latest offering in the IBM Storage for Data and AI portfolio.

The new IBM Storage Scale System 6000 seeks to build on IBM's leadership position with an enhanced high performance parallel file system designed for data intensive use-cases.

I wholeheartedly agree with Denis Kennelly, GM IBM Storage, when he says, “The potential of today's new era of AI can only be fully realized, in my opinion, if organizations have a strategy to unify data from multiple sources in near real-time without creating numerous copies of data and going through constant iterations of data ingest.

And the IBM Storage Scale System 6000 gives clients the ability to do just that – it brings together data from core, edge, and cloud into a single platform with optimized performance for GPU workloads. It allows you to deploy IBM Storage Scale on thousands of nodes with TB/s performance, low latency, and tens of millions of IOPS per node.

Let’s take a look at just some of the highlights:

• Designed to help break through data barriers with IBM’s global data platform and IBM Storage Scale software.
• Easily deploy fast, highly scalable, resilient, and secure data for AI and high-performance workloads.
• Reduce inefficiency, lower acquisition costs, simplify storage management, eliminate data silos, support multiple demanding workloads, and deliver high performance throughout the organisation.
• Managed as a single storage system or appliance, installations and updates are delivered by means of containerized software that speeds and simplifies the maintenance process.
• Designed to easily extend an existing IBM Storage Scale cluster on-prem, in the public cloud, a hybrid configuration or be set up quickly as a new standalone environment.
• It’s easy to order, easy to install, easy to upgrade, easy to scale, and most importantly easy to use with a lower cost customer experience.
• Join data with other IBM and non-IBM storage including the public cloud (up to 633YB) to enable a single source of truth.
• Optimized for storing semi-structured and unstructured data including video, imagery, text, instrumentation data, etc., that is generated daily and accelerates an organisation's digital footprint across hybrid environments.

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