The enhancements to IBM Spectrum Storage offerings are part of the company’s investment in software defined storage. Cost analysis with several beta customers indicates that the enhanced IBM Spectrum Protect software can help clients reduce backup infrastructure costs on average by up to 53 percent.
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Following its acquisition three months ago, Blue Box has been quickly added to Big Blue’s private cloud-as-a-service offerings.
The company has expanded two products in its Spectrum line, Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Accelerate, to allow customers to build hybrid storage systems by combining in-house Spectrum deployments with IBM Cloud storage services. One can speculate that IBM went with the name spectrum, given the fact that their new storage solution gives enterprises tons of options in terms of backup technology.
“Large enterprises can consolidate backup servers to reduce cost and complexity, while managing data growth from mobile, social and internet of things”. IBM Spectrum Protect supports IBM Cloud infrastructure today with a plan to expand the support to other public clouds in future.
IBM has been recognized as a “Leader” in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances1 for five consecutive years for IBM Spectrum Protect.
The company designed Spectrum Protect primarily for small and medium size businesses to replace their backup servers, media servers and deduplication appliances with a single server linked to the cloud for additional capacity.
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The company has also revised the Spectrum Accelerate licensing so it can cover the software regardless of whether it is run on premises or in the IBM Cloud.
IBM has announced Blue Box Cloud is now available in its global network of datacentres, allowing customers to deploy and manage applications on OpenStack-based private clouds running SoftLayer.
Blue Box Cloud customers can choose a SoftLayer data center in their preferred geography, driving down latency and improving application performance for their end users.
This will help enable hybrid storage systems to be deployed, which tap into cloud storage without completely abandoning on premise infrastructure and servers.
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IBM says that its Spectrum Storage portfolio can centrally manage “more than 300 different storage devices and yottabytes [a trillion terabytes] of data”.
