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Migrating data from native HDFS to IBM Spectrum Scale based shared storage

by Linda Cham, Yong Zheng on January 18, 2019 in backup and recovery, Big Data & Analytics, Customer experience and engagement, Software defined storage

Data is growing exponentially. IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Scale Elastic Server is an enterprise solution that is able to ingest and manipulate data...

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Bulk File Creation useful for Test on Filesystems

by SandeepRPatil on January 16, 2019 in Enterprise Storage, Software defined infrastructure, Software defined storage, Workload and resource optimization

More often than not, we need a tool that helps create “given number of file” and “given size of files” in a “given directory” on...

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Spectrum Scale and Containers

by Nikhilk on December 20, 2018 in Software defined infrastructure, Software defined storage

Recently, IBM has announced a new version of Storage Enabler for Containers (SEC), which adds support for IBM Spectrum Scale. SEC solves the important problem...

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Hadoop Performance for disaggregated compute and storage configurations based on IBM Spectrum Scale Storage

by WeiGong@Scale on December 13, 2018 in Big Data & Analytics, Cognitive computing, Enterprise Storage, Software defined storage

IBM Spectrum Scale offers flexible and scalable software-defined file storage for analytics workloads. Enterprises around the globe have deployed IBM Spectrum Scale to build large...

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Administer your Spectrum Scale cluster easily

by Trishali on November 13, 2018 in Software defined storage

The Installation Toolkit can be used to manage Spectrum Scale clusters. Toolkit makes it easy to install, deploy and upgrade clusters. It is available with...

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Disaster Recovery using Spectrum Scale’s Active File Management

by Trishali on November 13, 2018 in Software defined storage

Active File Management (AFM) can be used for Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions and there are two Spectrum Scale clusters or sites in this case, the...

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IBM Spectrum Scale for Linux on IBM Z – What’s new in IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.2 ?

by christian_may on September 21, 2018 in Software defined storage

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.2 has been released and here are the features now available for IBM Z: OS currency updates     File audit logging...

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Making the Most of Multicloud Storage

by Rick Janowski on August 13, 2018 in Cloud computing

According to multiple surveys, the vast majority of enterprises have a multicloud strategy. However, for all its potential benefits, a multicloud strategy can result in...

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Your Optimal Choice of AI Storage for Today and Tomorrow

by Yong Zheng on August 10, 2018 in Big Data & Analytics, Cognitive computing, Software defined storage

Performance and Scalability are the top two challenges for AI storage Nowadays organizations are using AI for digital transformation, such as leveraging deep learning to...

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IBM Spectrum Scale HDFS Transparency Docker support

by LiXiaLiu on July 6, 2018 in Customer experience and engagement, Software defined infrastructure, Software defined storage

HDFS Transparency supports running the Hadoop Map/Reduce workloads inside Docker containers. See the Docker website for an overview of the Docker technology. It is recommended...

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