Accelerate Business Growth and AI Innovation with a Global Data Platform

Accelerate Business Growth and AI Innovation with a Global Data Platform

AI spending is expected to grow to $301 billion by 2026

Data that provides the fuel for AI is expected to grow over 250% in the next 5 years

Organizations Need to Unlock Value From Data… Wherever it Resides

We fundamentally believe that core to the competitiveness of every company going forward will be their ability to use AI to unlock real-time value from their data wherever the data resides..

Leaders are faced with unprecedented data challenges to accelerate AI innovation

Changing Technology

Traditional infrastructure limitations

Deploying infrastructure to support new generative AI and AI workflows is a top initiative and traditional infrastructure is not designed for new requirements and maintaining current needs

Data Silos

Data that is difficult to access across silos

82% of enterprises are inhibited by data silos and 87% run multi-cloud environments, with 44% running applications siloed on different clouds¹

Sustainability and Costs 

AI requirements drive the need for more resources

80% of enterprises are working with or planning to adopt AI and 86% have a sustainability strategy² that strives to lower – not increase the number of new resources used

Unknown Threats

As AI becomes mission critical the data must be protected

As of 2023, over 72% of businesses worldwide have been affected by ransomware attacks

… Leading to more cost and complexities with with current infrastructure

Clients need to break free from data challenges and unlock the value from data wherever it resides

Challenges

• Traditional infrastructure limitations
• Data is difficult to access across silos or across hybrid cloud
• The growth of AI requirements are driving the need for more resources
• Massive amounts of AI data needs to be protected

Solutions

• Accelerate new workloads to achieve faster results
• Provide a single view of data to enhance workload productivity no matter the location or type of data
• Create a more sustainable infrastructure that uses less energy and does not overrun budgets
• Proactively protect data and quickly recover from attacks with an “always available”
  data experience

IBM Storage for Data and AI

• Storage Scale – The foundation for business growth and AI innovation creating a global data platform
• Storage Ceph – Operationalize AI with a data lake designed to improve as it scales

Unlock unstructured data’s potential and propel business growth and AI innovation by accelerating discovery, eliminating data silos, support green and lower cost initiatives, and protecting organizations from the unknown

Where does IBM Storage for Data and AI make a difference?

AI Training, Inferencing, HPC

Extreme performance critical

• AI with NVIDIA
• LLM creation
• Digital twin
• Foundational model creation
• Genomics research
• Computational chemistry
• Weather prediction
• Seismic imaging
• Financial fraud/claims processing
• Financial risk modelling
• Autonomous driving

Generative AI, Data Lake, Analytics

Performance priority 

• watsonx.data
• Client analysis/support
• Healthcare treatment/diagnosis
• Client care analysis
• Engineering design
• Research/business analysis
• Large pattern analysis
• High performance database
• Computer aided engineering(CAE)
• Public safety/smart cities

Backup, Archive,  Data Collaboration

Access and costs priority

• DR backup data
• Archival of less used data
• Video/Voice/Image applications
• Remote data collaboration
• Design collaboration
• Video surveillance/production

IBM Storage Scale and Storage Scale System

The foundation for AI innovation and accelerated discovery

• Accelerate discovery – Access all data across clouds and on-premises through a high-performance, multi-path parallel interface with turbo access option
• Eliminate data silos – Improve collaboration and access data from anywhere including cloud, tape, and current storage resources
• Support green and lower cost initiatives – Lower resource requirements with policy based, multi-tier lifecycle management and IBM energy and cost saving technologies
• Safeguard data from the unknown – Keep data always on and protected with comprehensive resiliency services covering each stage of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Consolidate workloads on a single global data platform

Easy to start

Easy to grow

Multi-cloud support

Mix and match

The easiest way to get more with a Global Data Platform

IBM Storage Scale System 3500
Most Innovative Flash Storage 20221

More Capacity

• 48 TB to 720 TB of all flash capacity per node
• Up to 15+ PB total capacity per node
• Scales from 1 to 1000+ nodes

More Performance

• Up to 126GB/s per node
• Up to 1.2M IOPS per node

More Security

• End-to-end encryption  with customer keys
• Lower RTO with Safeguarded Copy quick recover option

More Connectivity

• Break down silos by connecting remote systems, cloud data, and non-IBM storage
• Connect any node to a global data platform for hybrid cloud computing

The ultimate data acceleration storage system

• Ultimate Performance
• Ultimate Efficiency
• Ultimate Density

• Scales from 1 to 1000+ nodes and 633YB of capacity
• Connects to non-IBM and public cloud storage3
• Integrates to current IBM Storage Scale platform
• Safeguard data with Safeguarded Copy, CyberVault, & CyberProtect

Operationalize AI with a data lake designed to improve as it scales

IBM Storage Ceph

A hardened, secure, and supported enterprise software curated from Ceph open-source community software that allows clients to consume data through object, block, and file interfaces.

Easy to start and cost effective to deploy – Deploy on industry standard x86-servers or IBM Storage Ready Nodes with single command installation

Easy to manage and consolidate to save – Minimize compleity with multiple workloads on a single system but maintain failure, security and performance boundries to minimize disruption 

Scale performance and capacity – Scale from 4 to 400 nodes or 384TB to 96 PB –  increasing nodes increases performance

Scale with ease and self healing protection – Online scalability by adding a single node; hardware failures are automatically recovered

IBM Storage Ceph Easy start process

1 – Install your industry-standard x86 servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux – Start with 4 server nodes

2 – Acquire and install IBM Storage Ceph with IBM Storage Insights – IBM Storage Insights is included for use with IBM Storage Ceph

3 – Configure object storage buckets, access keys, and parameters – Configure your applications with relevant bucket access information

4 – Add additional resources and capacity according to needs – Perform day-2 operations, for example, setup remote replica cluster locations

IBM Storage Ceph Ready nodes

Validated hardware for IBM Storage Ceph

• Ready for immediate use, with published performance data
• Use cases: data lake, feature storage, active archive,and backup
• Capacity feature codes: (96, 144, 192,240 TB)
• Scale from 4 to 400 nodes (384TB to 96 PB raw)

Easy to deploy

• 2U server IBM Storage Cephplus RHEL
• Deployed in existing infrastructure, racks, PDUs,and switching
• Single point of contact for support
• N+1 scalability

Why Storage Ceph and watsonx.data are better together

Accelerate your infrastructure with a comprehensive data lakehouse architecture

• Create a single source of truth
• Deliver faster access with performance that scales with capacity
• Consolidate watsonx.data storage with data lake capacity

Time to unlock your data with a Global Data Platform

• Learn more about IBM Storage for AI Workloads – AI Storage Solutions
• Learn more about IBM Storage Scale – IBM Storage Scale
• Learn more about IBM Storage Scale System – IBM Storage Scale System
• Learn more about IBM Storage Ceph – IBM Storage Ceph
• Learn more about IBM’s geo-dispersed object storage solution – IBM Cloud Object Storage

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