This IBM® RedpaperTM publication takes you on a journey that surveys cloud computing to answer several fundamental questions about storage cloud technology. What are storage clouds? How can a storage cloud help solve your current and future data storage business requirements? What can IBM do to help you implement a storage cloud solution that addresses these needs? This paper shows how IBM storage clouds use the extensive cloud computing experience, services, proven technologies, and products of IBM to support a smart storage cloud solution designed for your storage optimization efforts. Clients face many common storage challenges and some have variations that make them unique. It describes various successful client storage cloud implementations and the options that are available to meet your current needs and position you to avoid storage issues in the future. IBM CloudTM Services (IBM Cloud Managed Services® and IBM SoftLayer®) are highlighted as well as the contributions of IBM to OpenStack cloud storage. This paper is intended for anyone who wants to learn about storage clouds and how IBM addresses data storage challenges with smart storage cloud solutions. It is suitable for IBM clients, storage solution integrators, and IBM specialist sales representatives.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project: Tito Hernandez IBM Cloud Keith D. Ball Michael Daubman Scott Fadden Pallavi Galgali Arati Ranade Harald Seipp Frederick Stock Christine Telford Carl Zetie IBM ...
Cloud computing is a way for businesses to take advantage of storage and virtual services through the Internet, saving money on infrastructure and support This book provides a clear definition of cloud computing from the utility computing ...
As the name implies, a hybrid cloud is a combination of various cloud types (public, private, and community). ... Object Storage Capability IBM Cloud Object Storage Multi-tenant off-premises object storage services Low cost shared ...
If you are an IBM Cloud Private system administrator, this book is for you. If you are developing applications on IBM Cloud Private, you can see the IBM Redbooks publication IBM Cloud Private Application Developer's Guide, SG24-8441.
This edition applies to DS8900F Release 9.2 and covers more recent features of TCT such as multi-cloud connections. along with additional advice for high availabilty cloud connectivity and DFSMShsm improvements.
... Long Wen Lan, Yu Yan Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Qingyuan Hou IBM China The team would like to express thanks to IBM Gold Partner e-TechServices for providing infrastructure as a service utilizing e-TechServices' cloud systems as a ...
For an in-depth description of these use cases and typical usage examples from several industries, see Chapter 4, “Typical applications for IBM Cloud Object Storage” on page 57. Backup repository (See “Use case 1: Backup repository” on ...
It also provides a detailed description of troubleshooting tips. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is also available on AWS. For more information, see Implementing IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud on AWS Version 8.3.1, REDP-5588.
It provides a starting point for establishing your own enterprise storage environment. This book describes the IBM Storage products as of March, 2016.
The authors team has many years of experience in implementing IBM Cloud Private and other cloud solutions in production environments. Throughout this book, we used the approach of providing you the recommended practices in those areas.