Data storage stands at an odd crossroads today. From a technological perspective, storage vendors continue to deliver the goods in terms of solutions becoming increasingly speedy, capacious, and flexible. That is vital since modern businesses are creating and managing information in volumes that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
At the same time, most storage media and systems have become thoroughly commoditized, driving prices and margins ever downward and bleeding dry many once-stalwart vendors. There are ways out of this blind alleyway, but they typically require proactive development and strategic efforts. The new Spectrum Fusion and updated Elastic Storage Systems announced last week by IBM offer insights into how one vendor is coping with these challenges.
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IBM updates its storage-systems portfolio
IBM adds higher capacity and software-defined storage systems for deployment on-premises and in the cloud. Gremlin / Getty Images
IBM announced a pair of additions to its storage portfolio designed to improve the access to and management of data across hybrid-cloud environments and offer faster, higher capacity.
The first is container-native software defined storage (SDS) called IBM Spectrum Fusion that’s due out in the second half of 2021. It will initially come in the form of a container-native hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) system that integrates compute, storage, and networking. Next year, IBM plans to release an SDS-only version of Spectrum Fusion.
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IBM has made some interesting container-and-hybrid-cloud-centric moves.
Earlier this week the company announced its intention to deliver a container-native software defined storage product, called IBM Spectrum Fusion, in the second half of 2021. Big Blue said it will initially be sold as a hyperconverged infrastructure that includes Red Hat OpenShift and can handle virtual machines and containers, or provide software defined storage “for cloud, edge and containerized data centres.”
As observed by a trio of Forrester analysts, IBM’s move is interesting because most hyperconverged infrastructure is built around virtual machines. And while VMware has its own Tanzu container stack, Forrester said that while it is virtualized, it is also “… monolithic, and the native scale-out features brought to the market by open source-derived alternatives will make some infrastructure manage
IBM tackles HCI again with container-native platform
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The use of containers and open source virtualisation without relying on VMware could disrupt the HCI market
IBM attempts HCI again with container-native platform
IBM has announced plans to launch a new container-native hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform in the second half of 2021 - an addition to the existing HCI solutions it sells with Nutanix. A software-defined storage (SDS) version will follow in early 2022.
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