Watch a technical presentation from Storage Field Day 25 exploring IBM Storage Scale's capabilities as a global data platform for unstructured data. Discover how this fast-growing segment of IBM's Data & AI Storage portfolio delivers extreme performance, scalability, and reliability for high-performance, data-intensive workloads. Learn about flexible deployment options across core, edge and cloud environments, container support, policy-based data lifecycle management, and multi-protocol connectivity features. The presentation covers key topics including object storage history, data access and cache services, visibility control automation, policy engine functionality, resilience features, distributed lock management, and comparisons between Hadoop and Spark implementations. Recorded live in San Francisco on March 22, 2023, this comprehensive technical deep dive demonstrates how IBM is pioneering advanced storage solutions for modern enterprise needs.
IBM Storage Scale - A Global Data Platform for High-Performance Unstructured Data Management
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
History of Object Storage
What is a Global Data Platform
Data Access Services
Data Cache Services
Visibility Control Automation
Policy Engine
Resiliency
Safeguard Copy
Mount 100 Million Files
Offline Mode
Tagging
Action Layer
File and Object
Distributed Lock Manager
Why Scale
Hadoop vs Spark
Clients
Taught by
Tech Field Day
