LAS VEGAS, June 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at
CiscoLive, Cisco's annual IT and communications conference, IBM
(NYSE: IBM) announced that companies using Cisco UCS servers can
now manage their data intensive workloads securely and efficiently
on-premises with the IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) System, now
available as a VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage. This
pre-validated, tested and supported solution is designed to offer
modern, flexible storage for unstructured data for use cases such
as active archive, backup, content repository, enterprise
collaboration and cloud application development.
Businesses rely on a variety of storage architectures,
including file and block storage for traditional workloads and
performance-centric applications. Today's organizations are
increasingly adding object storage for its massive scalability,
cost efficiency and ability to manage rich, user-definable
metadata.
IBM and Cisco have collaborated to simplify and speed
object storage adoption for customers with the VersaStack Solution
for Cloud Object Storage. The combination of the Cisco UCS S3260
Storage Server, C220 Rack Servers and Cisco Nexus 9K switches with
IBM Cloud Object Storage System is ideal for data intensive
workloads, supporting IT organizations with an easily scalable
solution.
Customers can use their same on-premises Cisco hardware
and server management tools to add IBM Cloud Object Storage to
their current IT environments, allowing them to manage their data –
from petabyte to exabyte scale – with reliability, security,
availability and disaster recovery – all without replication. This
new offering will modernize storage access, so that when clients
are ready to extend their workloads into a hybrid cloud storage
environment, the processing and tools are already in place for them
to use their IBM Cloud Object Storage software, in either a private
or hybrid cloud environment.
"The growth of unstructured data in the enterprise is
driving the need for a highly scalable, cost effective storage
architecture," said Satinder Sethi,
vice president, data center solutions, Cisco. "Cisco UCS S-Series
Storage Servers are built to deliver rapid scalability and
performance coupled with maximum investment protection through
multi-generational system design. Cisco is collaborating with IBM
to extend VersaStack with a new cloud object storage solution, that
is built on UCS S3260 storage server, 40G fabric and IBM Cloud
Object Storage that can scale from terabytes to petabytes in
minutes."
IBM Cloud Object Storage redefines the availability,
security and economics of data storage, requiring less storage,
power, floor space, personnel and cost than traditional storage
options. It complements IBM's high and medium-performance flash and
disk storage options, available for Cisco customers via IBM
VersaStack, by providing a different kind of storage environment –
one that is built for cloud native applications; unstructured data
like video, audio, image and documents; and archive and other data
protection needs.
IBM takes a "software-defined/hardware-aware" approach to
object storage. IBM Cloud Object Storage provides information about
the status of both the logical and physical elements of the system
in one view. This includes statistics on the health of disk drives,
fans, NICs and the temperature of major system components.
Intelligence delivered in the IBM COS Manager makes it easy for a
single administrator to manage 10s of petabytes of storage, which
can significantly lower the total cost of ownership for large scale
object storage systems.
"At IBM, we want to make it easy for organizations to
adapt their IT environments when business needs change," said
Phil Buckellew, general manager, IBM
Cloud Object Storage. "Providing IBM Cloud Object Storage for Cisco
hardware customers does just that – it allows them to use their
existing investments to gain massive scalability for large volumes
of data or changing business needs, with the option to extend into
the IBM Cloud if and when it makes sense for them."
The VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage is backed
by a Cisco Validated Design (CVD), which
provides guidance on design and deployment of the solution,
enabling Cisco customers and channel resellers to repeat the
successful approaches they have taken with other Cisco validated
solutions and seamlessly add object storage to their IT tool kit.
It also simplifies the integration process for Cisco customers, who
can now use their existing Cisco purchasing agreements and support
structure to implement a flexible IBM Cloud Object Storage
environment.
The VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage is
available now, joining a growing family of VersaStack solutions
jointly developed by IBM and Cisco. VersaStack solutions now have
19 validations (combined CVDs and Redbooks), enabling IBM and
Cisco's joint customers to address a wide range of workloads and
use cases.
About IBM Cloud Object Storage:
For more information, please visit
http://ibm.biz/cloud_object_storage.
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