Efficient management of your data is a daily struggle between access and scalability. Making file-level data available becomes more difficult as more users are added and even more data is stored.

IBM Storage Optimization and Integration Services - scale out file services centralize and virtualize your data in a single storage environment. Scale out file services (SOFS) can help your business:

• Consolidate your fragmented islands of information into a global, infinitely scalable, heterogeneous grid
• Operate the most resilient, high performance environment that meets your most challenging business needs, including all aspects of digital media ingestion
• Improve TCO through storage, server and management platform consolidation

SOFS are designed to eliminate your information sharing challenges through swift implementation of a highly scalable, global, clustered NAS system. SOFS components can be deployed at your site, an IBM delivery center, or both. Optional premium support services are available to guarantee a virtually flawless production environment.

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Without easy and shared access, individuals and teams tend to create isolated information islands, triggering a number of issues including inefficiencies, versioning control and data security risks. SOFS utilizes IBM's flagship General Parallel File System (GPFS) which has for decades been an industry leader in High Performance Computing, supporting hundreds of nodes and petabytes of storage. This gives your enterprise:

• Seamless capacity to handle the explosive growth of information volumes and the growing need of enterprise wide, interdepartmental information sharing
• High-reliability to eliminate production outages and provide for disruption-free maintenance and capacity upgrades
• Performance to satisfy the most demanding applications, including digital media
• Cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity alternatives

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The technology behind scale out file services offers a cutting-edge locking mechanism that facilitates multiple, parallel read/write operations from various client platforms to the same file. And the clustering design supports a nearly unlimited number of nodes and amount of storage in a single cluster. Start small and grow as you go.

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