This book examines data storage and management challenges and explains software-defined storage, an innovative solution for high-performance, cost-effective storage using the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS).

Life Sciences organizations need to be able to build IT infrastructures that are dynamic, scalable, easy to deploy and manage, with simplified provisioning, high performance, high utilization and able to exploit both data intensive and server intensive workloads, including Hadop MapReduce. Solutions must scale, both in terms of processing and storage, in order to better serve the institution long-term. There is a life cycle management of data, and making it useable for mainstream analyses and applications is an important aspect in system design. This presentation will describe IT requirements and how Technical Computing solutions from IBM and Platform Computing will address these challenges and deliver greater ROI and accelerated time to results for Life Sciences.

Software defined storage is enterprise class storage that uses standard hardware with all the important storage and management functions performed in intelligent software. Software defined storage delivers

Join IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. to learn how Nuance uses IBM Elastic Storage to improve the power of their voice recognition applications by managing storage growth, cost and complexity while increasing performance and data availability. View the webcast to learn how you can: · Lower data management costs through policy driven automation and tiered storage management · Manage and increase storage agility through software defined storage Remove data related bottlenecks to deliver application performance

A fast, simple, scalable and complete storage solution for today’s data-intensive enterprise IBM Spectrum Scale is used extensively across industries worldwide. Spectrum Scale simplifies data management with integrated tools designed to help organizations manage petabytes of data and billions of files—as well as control the cost of managing these ever-growing data volumes.

To quickly and economically meet new and peak demands, Platform LSF (SaaS) and Platform Symphony (SaaS) workload management as well as Elastic Storage on Cloud data management software can be delivered as a service, complete with SoftLayer cloud infrastructure and 24x7 support for technical computing and service-oriented workloads. Watch this demonstration to learn how the IBM Platform Computing Cloud Service can be used to simplify and accelerate financial risk management using IBM Algorithmics.

Software defined storage is enterprise class storage that uses standard hardware with all the important storage and management functions performed in intelligent software. Software defined storage delivers automated, policy-driven, application-aware storage services through orchestration of the underlining storage infrastructure in support of an overall software defined environment.

Around the world and across all industries, high-performance computing is being used to solve today’s most important and demanding problems. More than ever, storage solutions that deliver high sustained throughput are vital for powering HPC and Big Data workloads. Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre* software unleashes the performance and scalability of the Lustre parallel file system for enterprises and organizations, both large and small. It allows users and workloads that need large scale, high- bandwidth storage to tap into the power and scalability of Lustre, but with the simplified installation, configuration, and monitoring features of Intel® Manager for Lustre* software, a management solution purpose-built for the Lustre file system.Intel ® Enterprise Edition for Lustre* software includes proven support from the Lustre experts at Intel, including worldwide 24x7 technical support. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

This paper discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System's revolutionary built-in virtualization architecture provides a way to drastically reduce the costs of managing storage systems.

In this white paper, we describe the XIV snapshot architecture and explain its underlying advantages in terms of performance, ease of use, flexibility and reliability.

How should you handle your growing email archiving issues? According to ESG (Enterprise Storage Group), the number of organizations using a SaaS-based email archiving solution has increased 350% in the past three years. It's not a question of if you should archive email, but how - and, the evolution of SaaS solutions makes sense to move email management to the cloud for a broader range of organizations.

Big data and analytics is a rapidly expanding field of information technology. Big data incorporates technologies and practices designed to support the collection, storage, and management of a wide variety of data types that are produced at ever increasing rates. Analytics combine statistics, machine learning, and data preprocessing in order to extract valuable information and insights from big data.

Using your allotted resources wisely is admirable. However, have you thought in detail about the real costs associated with using “white box” servers? The Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) delivers advantages, including a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), beyond those that white-box servers can deliver.

The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 All-flash Storage can improve IOPS and latency results dramatically, increase the overall performance of a high workload environment, and lower administrative management work. The costs and benefits for a composite organization for 20 TB of 3PAR All-flash storage, based on customer interviews, are: ? Investment costs: $130,722. ? Benefits: $1,213,601. ? Average cost/GB usable (street price) for all-flash storage (included 4:1 compaction and 25% overhead): $2.20

While flash storage can enhance the performance of your applications, there are three potential roadblocks to realizing the full value from a flash investment: • Storage network capacity • Storage architecture • Resiliency Vish Mulchand is Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Led by experienced technology consultants, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage Transformation Workshop Service provides a highly interactive, meaningful half day-long session with a customer's IT, business, and executive stakeholders. Using a series of high-quality (slide-free) discussion panels, HPE TS Consulting will facilitate an exploration of data management transformation journey to business-aligned visions, aligning your specific situation and HPE’s experiences over evolutionary trends in Data Management, Transformation to All Flash and End to End Data Protection. HPE consultants will also lead discussions on the potential implications that a data management transformation may present to IT, your storage and backup staff, and your business.

Accelerate your journey to an all-flash data center with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage Consulting solutions. Slash costs and double performance with HPE 3PAR StoreServ All-flash arrays. Now you no longer need to choose which apps to take to flash; take them all and you won’t regret it. We deliver maximum performance, highest availability, Tier-1 data services, ease of management, and robust data protection at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) on the market when you engage with HPE Storage Consulting to provide an end-to-end all-flash solution.

Hyperconvered infrastructure -- the meddling together of servers and storage into a single appliance with streamlined management -- is a technology growing in popularity even as people struggle to figure out exactly what it can do, what it can't do, and just how it impacts the IT organization.

Dell EMC Unity, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, delivers the ultimate in All-Flash storage simplicity and value to speed deployment, streamline management and seamlessly extend the data storage to the cloud. Unity’s All-Flash platform is simple, modern, exible, and aordable—easy to setup and manage, optimized SSD performance and eciency, includes multiple deployment options, and comes with cloud-enabled storage management to keep you connected.

Snapshot-based data protection solutions were supposed to solve our backup challenges, weren’t they? Then why are your backups still broken? If your snapshots are manually managed or of the “build-it-yourself” variety, there may be several reasons that they aren’t working very well.

While some distributed enterprises look to the cloud to reduce server sprawl and centralize operations, in many cases, the cloud simply isn’t feasible. Maybe the offices are in remote locations with limited Internet service or low-bandwidth connectivity causes issues such as latency and availability. Download the solutions brief to discover why VCE VxRail hyper-converged appliances from Dell EMC are ideal for consolidating multiple applications in a remote location onto a single, high-performance and high-availability platform that’s easy to deploy and manage.

Many distributed offices are eager to simplify a complex, unwieldy mix of heterogeneous IT equipment. The Dell ™P converges servers, storage, networking and management into an office-optimized chassis the size of a tower server.

Read this white paper and learn how: • Cloud technology bridges the gap between IT and the business, but on-premises cloud deployments often offer a lower TCO than the public cloud. • Dell enables organizations to create and manage cloud solutions customized to unique needs. • Organizations have several options for building a cloud infrastructure based on Dell solutions. • In the realm of cloud computing, Dell differentiates itself through servers, storage, networking, and integration with infrastructure and management tools. • Implementing a cloud environment requires stakeholder identification, as well as resources and capabilities.

The HP Flex-Bundles for Exchange 2013 are right-sized solutions including servers, storage, networking and services that have been optimized for Microsoft Exchange. There are two HP Flex-Bundles for Exchange. One has been configured for customers who have 200–499 mailboxes and another one for customers with 500-1000 mailboxes. These solutions are low risk investments because HP understands how to build infrastructures for Microsoft environments and applications. HP and Microsoft have the longest standing relationship in the IT industry spanning 30 years. During this time, HP has gained a deep and comprehensive understanding of Microsoft products. HP has more than 34,000 trained Microsoft specialists, with over 13,000 of them attaining Microsoft-certification. HP has been named Microsoft Enterprise Partner of the Year five times and is Microsoft’s largest Gold Certified partner.

Data is the lifeblood of your business. To compete in today’s global information economy, you need to keep your IT systems up and running and provide consistent and reliable access to business-critical applications at all times. Application downtime or slow performance can mean diminished employee productivity, dissatisfied customers, and lost revenue. But keeping pace with change and managing growth can be a real challenge. Increasing numbers of applications, evolving technology, and rapid data growth are pushing older IT infrastructure to the limit—demanding more storage and bandwidth, greater security and agility, and higher availability than ever before.