Our story begins with with a race. The race to become agile and for organizations to adjust the the constantly changing business requirements that they face. CIOs are constantly looking for ways to improve IT and digital assets to help achieve business goals. There are many reasons that CIOs pursue infrastructure modernization. The top reasons are agility and helping the organization speed its time to market with new applications or by pursing new opportunities. Agile organizations can quickly redirect their people and priorities toward value-creating opportunities. Quality of Service or reliability and cost efficiencies follow closely as the 2nd and 3rd reasons for pursuing infrastructure modernization.
IBM has taken the challenges and created innovation that unlocks the value of your data with a single source of truth. We have created a Global Data Fabric optimized for the next generation of enterprise solutions and AI workloads. What is a global data fabric? A global data fabric is an architecture and a data strategy that brings fluid data and a single source of truth with multiple file and object access choices from multiple data sources to users and applications accessible at the edge, the core, and the cloud.
How can the global data fabric help bring business results?
The global data fabric breaks down silos and current data limitations to bring faster AI insights and modernizes data infrastructure for optimized business results. It is globally accessible with active file management (AFM), secured with audit logging and immutable data, protected with comprehensive resiliency options, and optimized with lifecycle management for costs and data caching for performance.
IBM provides a global data fabric that brings fluid data with multiple file and object access choices from multiple data sources accessible at the edge, the core, and the cloud. Only IBM provides a global data fabric that is globally accessible with active file management (AFM), secured with audit logging and immutable data, protected with comprehensive resiliency options, and optimized with lifecycle management for costs and data caching for performance.
You can learn more about the solution by visiting the Spectrum Scale web page or find out more about the architecture here.