IBM Cloud

Object Storage IBM Cloud Object

Storage
Data durability and protection for massive scale

David Wohlford ([email protected])

IBM Data and AI WW Product Marketing Manager
May 2023
Contents

• What is driving the enterprise?

• IBM Cloud Object Storage

transforms the data center IBM Cloud Object
Storage
• Solving data challenges for
primary and secondary storage

• Efficiencies that make it easy

to start and easy to grow

• A market leading solution

 CIO reasons for pursuing
The race is on to Infrastructure Modernization
become agile and
Agility and time to market 28
modernize IT Quality of Services or
Reliability 27

Cost efficiency 20

Security and Risk

“
Reduction 19
Many organizations are racing to become
agile. New research suggests that agile Talent and Skills 6
transformation can have a powerful impact
on the bottom line – in addition to other
widely recognized benefits
Infrastructure must facilitate change and it’s a process

Adapt Transform Compete

Reduce cost/complexity Gain benefits of storing and

accessing data anywhere
Bring advantages of a unified platform
to existing infrastructure

Consolidating data sources and take Leverage existing Establish a foundation with security,
advantage of high performant data access infrastructure and skills scalability, & resiliency

Co-locate data sources Modernize infrastructure

with business applications
Faster business
results
Object storage is becoming
the transformation enabler 35%
CAGR from 2017-2022
object based storage appliances

87%
of file and object-based data will
80%
of organizations believe
object storage can support
be on object storage by 2022 their top IT initiatives
So why object storage?
Secure anywhere
Object
access

• Applications connect to the storage

ID (index)
(bypass the operating system) Client
Metadata
• Raw data with an ID
app
Data
(index) and metadata
• Parallel concurrent accessible
S3 - key
data from anywhere
• Multiple layers of security uses
access keys and encryption

Object storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage Always on protected data
Reliably store EBs of data with up to
15 nines of durability and never loose access
Data durability and protection for during upgrades or hardware or site failures
massive scale
Lower cost of storage
No snapshots or replication required with
investment protection of storge nodes and
configurable dispersed erasure coding

Maintain or exceed SLAs:

Always-on availability with patented
Geo-dispersed data

Higher performance ingests & access

to capacity with fewer resources
Only 12 nodes to deliver up to
55 GB/s throughput
IBM Cloud Object Storage

Object storage efficiency with 55 GB/s throughput in a 12-node scalable cluster

Edge workloads Data durability and protection for massive scale Data center workloads

• File access • Backup/Archive

• Autonomous vehicles • Long term repository

• Video distribution • Container applications

• Backup/Archive • Analytics
Site A Site B Site C
• Sensor and IoT data • Data collaboration
IBM Cloud Object Storage
• Video and image data
High performance file access
• Mobile data Organize with Analyze with
IBM Storage Discover IBM Storage IBM Storage Scale
• Data collaboration Scale
AI
Lower infrastructure costs by data consolidation
with a hybrid cloud information architecture
Edge Kubernetes Video/Digital Cloud ADAS or IoT Big Data Backup
Use Cases AI / ML
Collaboration Applications HPC Workloads Services Workloads Analytics
Research
and Archive

IBM Cloud Paks IBM Data

Protection
Solutions
IBM Archive

Data Catalog
and Data IBM Storage Discover
Orchestration

Global Data Data Protection Global Data Access Data Optimization

Security
Services

NFS SMB POSIX HDFS Object Kubernetes

Hybrid Cloud
Information
Architecture
IBM Storage Scale and ESS
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Comprehensive use cases for business solutions
IBM Cloud Object Storage

AI / Analytics / HPC Data Collaboration Digital/Video media

• Driver-assistance and • File services collaboration • Video distribution
autonomous-driving - Ingest • Windows SMB collaboration • Video storage/archive
• Real-time streaming • Multi-site video collaboration • Music or digital capacity
• Spark analytics
• Splunk analytics Service Providers Financial Services
• Edge AI and analytics • Cloud storage as a Service • Data consolidation and
• IBM Watson AI and analytics • Backup as a Service cyber security
• NVIDIA AI and analytics - • OpenShift as a Service • Long term compliance archives
Collect
• IoT AI and Analytics – Collect
Healthcare
Backup/Archive • Data consolidation and
• Backup/archive capacity cyber security
• OpenShift data backups • Long term compliance archives
 Business challenge: Outcome:
Porsche Informatik Deploy a Red Hat Customer deployed
OpenShift platform IBM Cloud Object
Modernizing for the future across thousands of
worldwide users:
Storage in multiple
data centers serving
with Red Hat OpenShift and 1. Secure - immutable
edge and centralized
Red Hat OpenShift
IBM Cloud Object Storage 2.
3.
Stable and always-on
Easy to scale and grow
clusters

4. Persistent storage
Automotive/Industrial from any location

Scalable multi-site solution

100s of TB with easy growth path to expand data needs

Worldwide access to data

30 countries and 4 continents

Secure environment
IBM COS immutable (WORM) storage and global access control
Lower cost of protecting data
on the edge or data center Backup remote desktops to data center
with IBM COS File Access
Collaborate across remote devices

• Virtual appliance for low-cost deployment Archive data to central cloud storage
• SMB/NFS interface for easy access

• Smart caching for performance

• Source-based data reduction to lower costs

• Strong security and compliance to keep

remote data safe

Remote
devices
IBM Cloud Object Storage adds a file interface for Kubernetes
App

S3 API App
S3 API App

S3 API App Object Access Container Object Access

S3 API

Use S3 API with no plugin or

persistent volume required

Container File Access

s3fs App

s3fs App

s3fs App

s3fs App

File Access
Persistent volume and file access with
s3fs plugin for existing applications
 IBM Storage Discover
Intelligent insights
Solve the data and AI puzzle faster with Discover security, compliance, and governance
global search and data orchestration issues before they become problematic

Faster results
Data orchestration and integration into IBM
Storage Scale global data services brings faster
business results and user defined optimization
for many applications or AI platforms

Real time data equals better AI

With continuous real time updates whenever
changes to data occur means that users can
easily find and analyze billions of current
objects and files in less than a second

Leverage IBM’s AI solutions

Link file and object data to IBM Watson solutions
and IBM Cloud Pak for Data for deeper insights
and more comprehensive AI
 IBM Storage Discover
Analyze your data with a data catalog and search billions of files/objects in 0.5 sec
Manage AI workflows with a comprehensive view of the data
Manage global data orchestration with IBM Storage Scale integration

Heterogeneous data organization

and Storage Scale data orchestration
Analyze and identify
IBM Storage
data anywhere
IBM Cloud Object
Scale Storage
Ingest data continuously
real-time for live data updates
IBM Optimize data location
for faster global data access
Netapp Dell/EMC AWS Storage
Windows COS FA NFS
Discover
Multi-vendor scan from edge,
core, and public cloud Data orchestration and data catalog One-click integration
with IBM Watson solutions
IBM Storage Discover: for AI, big data, & hybrid cloud needs
IT admin or data user

AI or big data analysis

Catalog Orchestrate
Analyze

IBM Storage Discover IBM Cloud Pak for Data

NVIDIA
Cloudera
Edge Core Cloud Hadoop/Spark
Other SAS Grid
file data Other applications

Global data services and access

IBM Storage for AI workflows
Ingest Data mapping, Curate, organize, Train
data visualization, & orchestrate data
data discovery

Pothole
Stop sign

IBM Storage IBM Cloud IBM Storage IBM Storage IBM Storage IBM Storage
Scale Object Storage Discover Discover Scale Scale
IBM Cloud Object Storage use cases
Primary storage Secondary storage

Remote File Big Data/IoT/Object Data Protection Active Archive

Access/ Buckets/Video Target
Collaboration Distribution

IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Cloud Object Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage

Applications
communicate
directly to
storage \\IBM Files
+ Object 1
+ Object 2
- Object 3
 • Create ‘always on’ scalable repository
for large pools of unstructured data
Primary storage for • Use S3 tools directly for analytics
Big Data, video/image • Create a single source of data for AI
• Use Splunk SmartStore for primary data
distribution, containers, • Provide an object storage cloud service
and cloud storage • Accessible data from any location
• Easily deploy buckets of data for
container-based applications

IBM Storage Discover

IBM Cloud Object Storage

Applications
communicate
directly to
storage from
anywhere
 • Replaces aging file storage
• Lowers cost of file storage
Optimized file access or • Collaborates data across geographies
• Compresses and dedupes data
remote file collaboration • Caches local data for performance
• Minimizes remote backup and admin

IBM Cloud Object Storage

Access data as
files and collaborate
across the room or
across the world
\\IBM Files
+ Object 1
+ Object 2
-
Object 3
 • Access from any location
• Lower cost of upgrades and migration
• Faster backup
Backup data always-on and • Lower overall ROI costs
lower cost access to data • Easier to scale than primary storage
• Keep backup data online and no extra
retrieval cost or time vs. public cloud

IBM Supports IBM

Storage LOCKs Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage Protect+ Protect

Move backup data

to an always-on
safe and secure
repository

Supports
WORM
 • Globally accessible
• Lower cost of upgrades and migration
Active archive for • Faster backup
always-on and lower cost • Lower overall ROI costs
• Consolidate archive data for simplicity
access to data • Efficiently scale as needed
• Avoid lock in with standard S3 API

IBM Solutions File archive

• Healthcare: Merge
IBM Cloud Object Storage • Documents:
• FileNet
Move primary • CMOD Application archive
data to lower cost • System I (native)
• System z:
object storage • DS8000
• TS77XX
• File: Storage Scale
Over 100 validated solutions across all use cases
Primary storage Secondary storage

Remote file access / Big Data / IoT / Object Data protection Active archive
collaboration Buckets / Distribution

IBM IBM
Storage Storage
Protect+ Protect

IBM Storage Discover

IBM DS8800 IBM IBM TS77XX
TCT System TCT
i
IBM differentiator: A performance driven architecture

User or application
sources
IP address with secure key

Encrypted slices of data

IBM differentiator: Built for extreme and easy scalability

User or application User or application

sources sources

Access layer

Storage layer
IBM differentiator: Security is built-in with patented SecureSlice™
IBM differentiator: Architected for availability and reliability

IBM’s Information Dispersal Algorithm (IDA)

Write data Read data

Encrypts and Decodes data

slices data SmartWrite SmartRead

Disperses Retrieves data

slices and with subset of
ensure protection the slices

Site A Site B Site C

IBM differentiator: IBM innovation for small configurations <2 PB

Concentrated Dispersal makes it easy to start small

Write data Read data

Encrypts and Decodes data

slices data SmartWrite SmartRead

Disperses Retrieves data

slices and with subset of
ensure protection Site A Site B Site C the slices

Provides competitive advantage efficiencies for configuration from 72 TB to 2 PB

IBM differentiator:
Geo-dispersed erasure coding brings efficiency for data protection
Traditional storage IBM Cloud Object Storage

1 TB 1 TB
of usable data of usable data

1.2 TB 1.2 TB 1.2 TB 0.56 TB 0.56 TB 0.56 TB

1st Copy 2nd Copy 3rd Copy Single copy of data

3.6 TB 1.8 TB
of raw storage of raw storage

255% TCO savings based on IDC customer report

IBM differentiator:
Securely store data for government regulations or ransomware
IBM Cloud Object storage
Lockable object buckets

Validated with
Set a policy and
LOCK data —
NO ONE can delete!

SEC 17a-4(f),
FINRA 4511(c), and
CGTC 1.31(c)-(d)
government compliant

An air-gapped solution that is locked for protection

IBM differentiator:
Flexibility of deployment for long term value
Integrated solution Choose your own hardware

Mix and match in same cluster Service in IBM Cloud

IBM differentiator: Flexibility to optimize configurations

Slicestor™ 12 Slicestor™ 53 Slicestor™ 92 Slicestor™ 106

40u rack configuration Min 905 mm Extra deep 905mm - 1075mm Extra Deep
(allowance for cabling)

Total rack space 3U 5U 6U 5U

Disk configurations 12 14, 28, 41, 53 28, 64, 92 64, 78, 92, 106
Drive sizes 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18 TB 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18 TB 6, 8, 10, 12,16, 18TB 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18 TB
Efficiency Options (IDAs. X/X/X) 1000’s of combinations to support optimized levels of availability, performance, and capacity
Node capacity raw (min / max) 48 TB / 216 TB 56 TB / 954 TB 168TB/1.656 PB 256TB/1.90 PB

Efficiency Investment High Lower

Protection Performance Costs

No migration required; Low cost options Scale-out throughput Consolidated flexibility

Mix configurations
IBM differentiator:
Easy to scale with investment protection and always online
Extended Storage Pool
Storage Pool Device Set 3
Device Set 2
Device Set Mirror Bucket

Bucket Bucket
Bucket
3rd Party or Gen1 New Gen2 Slicestor 12
New Gen2 Slicestor 106

Performance Storage Pool

Bucket MIGRATE

Bucket
IBM differentiator:
Lower initial costs and low-cost growth
Begin with one Add 2nd site Compact rack Capacity for
of the smallest for less cost than configuration for extreme efficiency
and easiest the 1st site extreme density and lowest cost/GB
to start systems

3x Slicestor 12 6x Slicestor 12 8x Slicestor 106 3x Slicestor 106

3u/node 3u/node 5u/node 5u/node

Location 1 Location 2 Location 1 Location 2

Location 1 Location 2
Location 3 Location 3

144 TB 288 TB 15.2 PB 5.7 PB

Customers love the
efficiency and payback
44% 8 months
“We added the IBM Cloud Object payback
Storage solution because it is lower costs
more mature than alternatives and
period
its storage efficiency significantly
improves our profit calculations.”
— IBM COS Customer

255%
ROI over 3 years
Customers are building multi-PB and EB
storage capacity with IBM COS

“COS serves as the single-largest,

on-premises object storage deployment in the
world, and IBM has more large deployments
than any other vendor.”
— Gartner

Cloud storage and Analytics and Data protection target Active archive
media distribution collaboration

1.2 EB IoT & Cloud Data 13 PB Financial Services 50 PB Storage Protect 200 PB Financial Data
1.1 EB Video 11 PB Healthcare 15 PB Commvault 50 PB Analytics Data
When BIG matters … (millions of concurrent users and large capacity)
IBM has the experience and the technology!

Some vendors are excited to have 1 EB deployed or

millions of users with all their customers combined

IBM Cloud Object Storage has multiple deployments with

over 1 EB each with millions of users and even more
customers with over 100s of PBs deployed
 Leadership matters

Gartner IDC
Supported by IBM’s Leader File/Object MQ Leader Object-Based Storage
2020 - 2016 MarketScape
deep technical expertise #1 Ranked for 3 use cases 2019, 2018, 2016
2020 - 2018
and unmatched industry #1 Ranked HPC and Analytics
Leader Scale-Out File-Based
Storage MarketScape
2019
knowledge, IBM 2020 - 2019

Systems are the IT coldago

Leader Map for File Storage
infrastructure of choice 2020, 2019
Leader Map for Object Storage
for 87 percent of 2019

Fortune 100 companies Readers Choice Awards

HPC Wire
Global Product Line
Strategy Leadership
2020 2019
Best Distributed File Object Storage
and Object Storage Vendor of the Year
2021 2020
Gartner Magic Quadrant:
IBM leadership for 5 consecutive years
Gartner: MQ for Distributed File Systems
and Object Storage, September 2020*

“IBM COS and Storage Scale customers cite reliability,

performance, and superior scalability as key reasons for
choosing the products.”

“IBM Storage Scale remains a top choice for High

Performance Compute use cases because of its parallel
file system performance.”

Gartner: Critical Capabilities for Scale-out File Storage,

October 2020*

#1 Ranked Storage for Analytics and HPC Use Cases

IBM Cloud Object Storage is ready now and built for the future

Optimize your current Position storage for new AI

workloads and cloud enabled workloads

Backup Native cloud

applications (containers)

Active archive Mobile workforce enablement

Enterprise collaboration Video & image distribution

and file services (DVR or similar)
IBM Cloud
Content repository
Object Storage Internet of Things (IoT)

Storage as a Service (SaaS) AI/Analytics

Secondary Data Primary active data

Learn more about
IBM Cloud Object Storage Updated for 2020

Web Page and Customer Resources

www.ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage

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