Originally posted by: bobby_g

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite - Complete Flexibility for Software-Defined Storage Helping Drive Up To 40% In Savings

You can't beat the Suite!

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite is designed to help improve the way you manage, protect and store data; deploy new capacity faster; and change or add software without raising license costs. Licenses are calculated on the amount of storage capacity you’re managing, not the number of software products you’re using. Yet it provides full coverage for software-define storage needs along with benefits for operations and the budget. The suite gives you access to all six members of the IBM Spectrum Storage family:

• IBM Spectrum Control™ —Storage and data optimization to reduce storage costs by up to 73 percent

• IBM Spectrum Protect™ —Optimized data protection to reduce backup costs by up to 53 percent

• IBM Spectrum Archive™ —Fast data retention that reduces total cost of ownership for active archive data by up to 90 percent

• IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ —Virtualization of mixed environments to increase data storage by up to five times

• IBM Spectrum Accelerate™ —Enterprise storage for cloud deployed in minutes instead of months

• IBM Spectrum Scale™ —High-performance, highly scalable storage for unstructured data

Evolving your capacity with IBM Spectrum Storage Suite

Simply add up the TBs of physical capacity you want to include in the software-defined environment. This capacity defines the cost of IBM Spectrum Storage Suite. If your capacity remains the same over time, your cost remains the same, too—regardless of how many software components you deploy. And as capacity grows—typically with increases in storage-rich servers and decreases in SAN storage—the cost keeps pace. A 10 percent increase in TB, for example, would mean simply a 10 percent increase in software costs.

Industry analysts are providing context, from the user perspective, for IBM Spectrum Storage Suite: 

Mark Peters, Practice Director & Senior Analyst at ESG has noted “Enormous change is taking place in storage, driven by the dynamic demands and opportunities of applications, architectures and acquisition methods. Recent ESG research found that more than 90% of storage professionals expect software-defined storage, convergence or cloud approaches to lead to fundamental storage change in the next five years; 60% are committed to SDS - with another 23% being interested - while about 70% are either deploying object storage or plan to within 24 months. Against this backdrop IBM’s Spectrum Storage Suite approach (a uniquely flexible single-per-TB license that allows customers to use as much of IBM’s Spectrum Storage software family as they like, and switch elements without cost or hassle) will allow peace of mind – and budget – for users that have traditionally found planning for an uncertain storage future to be a stress-inducing impracticality.”    

Laura DuBois, Group Vice President, Enterprise Storage, Servers and Infrastructure Software at IDC explained, “IBM has responded with Spectrum Storage Suite.  This Suite offers customers superior economics, deployment flexibility and ongoing investment protection with access to a broad range of SDS functions supported on heterogonous storage platforms and architectures.  IBM is unique in the industry in having such a comprehensive portfolio of SDS offerings available today, under a common management framework and procurement model. And the advantages of the new IBM Spectrum Storage Suite offering make procurement and deployment easier and more cost effective than ever before. "

IBM Business Partners are also speaking out about IBM Spectrum Storage Suite:

“IBM’s Spectrum Storage family of software-defined storage has delivered true business value to our end-users,” said Darrin Nelson, vice president of Software Solutions Sales at Sirius Computer Solutions. “But with the Spectrum Suite, IBM will expand the number of end-users who will be able to enjoy the benefits of software-defined storage by offering the entire family in a suite format. – It’s just the kind of value our clients love to see.”

With IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, IT managers now have a simple and predictable licensing model for the entire IBM Spectrum Storage family. Its straightforward per-TB pricing relates costs to the amount of storage capacity being software-defined, regardless of use case.

That makes it easy for IT managers to grow and transition how they use storage, and for CFOs to predict costs. And the Suite, helps clients save up to 40% compared with licensing all capabilities separately.

IBM Spectrum Storage Suite also supports rapid testing and deployment of business solutions by allowing IT managers to try out new software defined storage use cases in their non-production sandbox at no additional cost.  This is one way IBM Spectrum Storage Suite can support the agility required by IT managers as they manage the storage infrastructure transition underway in most datacenters.

Are you interested in taking the first step with software defined storage? Contact your IBM Business Partner or sales representative. And join the conversation with #IBMStorageand#softwaredefined

Watch this Video: New IBM Spectrum Storage Suite simplifies and supports your data grow

*****Note this blog entry has appeared also in The Storage Community blog here: https://ibm.biz/BdHLhS

Author: Ron Riffe
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