IBM Storage Solutions

Overview

Accelerate Adoption and Expansion of Applications and AI

Agentic Business Transformation is not just about the AI models you use; it is about the platform that allows those AI models to act. IBM Fusion HCI provides the necessary speed, the necessary integration (Native MCP support), an the necessary control. 

• Rapidly deploy Maximo and expand its new Agentic AI: Read More
• Run your AI Applications air-gapped and with controlled costs: Read More

IBM Fusion HCI

• A Kubernetes native hyperconverged platform that integrates SDS directly into Red Hat OpenShift
• Provides persistent storage, backup, disaster recovery, and virtualization capabilities for containerized workloads.
• Built to simplify running apps across hybrid cloud environments with unified management and automation.
• Supports both VM and container workloads and is optimized for edge deployment scenarios. 
• Offers integrated data services like replication, snapshots, and security policies for cloud-native apps. 

Mission Operations and Records Management

Federal agencies can optimize mission-critical operations and records management by combining high-performance flash, virtualization, scalable object storage, and resilient backup software. Ultra-low latency flash storage ensures uninterrupted availability for core ERP systems and databases, while storage virtualization eliminates silos by unifying legacy hardware. For compliant records management, scalable object storage economically manages massive archives to meet strict federal data retention mandates. Finally, centralized data protection software secures these environments with automated, cyber-resilient backup and recovery. This integrated tiering architecture enables agencies to easily adhere to NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) mandates and ensures rapid application performance, seamless lifecycle management, and absolute data integrity across the entire agency enterprise.  

IBM Flash System

• Hardware flash arrays using the Storage Virtualize SDS engine. 
• Delivers high-speed performance with enterprise data services like compression, deduplication, replication, and encryption.  
• Extends virtualization and management across all connected storage, not only the FlashSystem hardware. 
• Supports hybrid cloud and multi-site replication for business continuity. 

IBM Storage Virtualize

• A powerful storage virtualization layer that pools block storage from IBM and non-IBM vendors.
• Adds advanced features, thin provisioning, data reduction, snapshots, replication, migration on top of existing arrays.
• Used across heterogeneous data centers to unify management and modernize older storage systems.
• Enables seamless data migration between arrays with zero downtime.
• Forms the software foundation of IBM FlashSystem arrays and the SAN Volume Controller (SVC). 
  

IBM Storage CEPH

• A massively scalable SDS platform providing software-defined block, file, and object storage.
• Ideal for cloud deployments, OpenStack, edge locations, and Kubernetes ecosystems.
• Self-healing and self-balancing architecture with no single point of failure.
• Offers multi-protocol access (S3, NFS, RBD block, etc.) in one system.
• Designed for modern, elastic workloads that need flexible capacity growth. 

IBM Storage Protect 

• Enterprise-grade backup and recovery software built for organizations with large-scale data protection needs.
• Uses policy-based automation to manage backups across servers, databases, applications, and VMs.
• Efficient storage management with advanced deduplication and incremental forever backup designs.
• Supports tape, disk, cloud, and hybrid retention strategies.
• Provides high scalability—often used by large federal agencies and global enterprises.  

High-Performance Compute & Archive for your Science & Finance Programs

Federal agencies managing advanced scientific simulation and large-scale financial modeling can optimize operations by pairing an ultra-fast global data platform with highly secure tape automation. The high-performance parallel file architecture accelerates compute-heavy workloads, eliminating bottlenecks for massive datasets and enabling real-time analytics. As data ages, automated lifecycle policies seamlessly migrate files to physical, air-gapped tape storage, drastically reducing energy costs and footprints. This unified tiering approach delivers the raw throughput needed for breakthroughs while providing an impenetrable, low-cost layer for long-term compliance and permanent archive retention.

IBM Storage Scale

• A high performance, parallel file system designed for massive scale and extreme throughput.
• Used in AI/ML pipelines, HPC clusters, big data workloads, and enterprises needing petabyte scale storage.
• Provides unified access to file, object, and data management capabilities.
• Supports multi-site clustering for global namespace, automated tiering, policy-driven data placement, and robust resiliency.
• Enables fast data access across distributed compute environments, including GPU clusters.  

IBM Tape Storage & Archive

• IBM Deep Archive offers appliance like deployment for complete data sovereignty in an air-gapped environment supporting standard S3 Glacier Commands and integrated systems Monitoring.
• IBM Climate-Controlled Diamondback is the only library for any elevated temperatures and humidity with up to 61.9 PB and up to 20.2 TB per hour data rate that you can deploy in less than 30 minutes.