LAS VEGAS - 26 Jun 2017: 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 .
###
All product and company names herein may be
trademarks of their registered owners.
Contact(s) information
Betsy Rizzo
IBM Media Relations
betsy.rizzo@us.ibm.com
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 .
###
All product and company names herein may be
trademarks of their registered owners.
Contact(s) information
Betsy Rizzo
IBM Media Relations
betsy.rizzo@us.ibm.com
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