IBM Converged Archive Solution Integrates TS4300 Tape Library, Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

IBM Power System S924 technology-based server offers IBM Converged Archive Solution options

The IBM Converged Archive Solution integrates a TS4300 Tape Library, Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on a Power System S924 technology-based server to deliver a single distributed system with advanced storage management of unstructured active archive data for objects, file systems, big data, and more.

The solution provides following benefits:

• Centralizes and simplifies deployment with an all-IBM hardware, software, and services solution
• Consolidates storage across traditional file and new-era workloads for object, Apache Hadoop, and analytics use cases
• Features Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive configured software that manages ILM data to IBM tape
• Provides automated ILM data management across all storage tiers
• Boosts archive capacity without impacting data availability in a pool
• Enables collaboration and efficient sharing of resources among global distributed teams
  Improves data availability and total capacity with up to 2EB of capacity for data with 11 nines of durabilityn complete on-premises deployment
• Delivers data security and compliance through support for WORM media and flash, disk, and tape drive encryption
• Provides support for mixed environments of tape drives with respective supporting media:
  • LTO Ultrium 8
  • LTO Ultrium 7
  • LTO Ultrium 6
  • IBM TS1150 and IBM TS1160

Combined with IBM Storage Lab Services client services, the Converged Archive Solution is a simple enterprise supporting tape archiving available. Solutions deployments of up to 12 tape drives attached to 3 HA POWER9 servers and supporting up to 1EB of compressed storage can be deployed in less than 5 days.

Key requirements: One Power S924 technology-based server

Planned availability date: June 25, 2021