File and Object Storage

IBM Spectrum Scale is an enterprise Software Defined Storage product which means it is scalable, high performance, full featured, and never seen in the home environment. But since last year there is a special version of Spectrum Scale which is available ...

Updating Spectrum Scale We'll kick this blog off by updating Spectrum Scale, which requires new software, as usual. Normally an IBM customer would download this from the IBM Fix Central website, but you're not a paying customer, so no access is granted ...

Data-intensive Science describes research and engineering efforts which depend on the processing of large datasets which are acquired from instruments such as cameras, genome sequencers, super microscopes and other devices. Data-intensive science requires ...

Backups have come a long way since a 8mm tape drives stuck directly in the front of a server with one tape per day of the week. Having an offline copy of your data in a fireproof data vault is a reassuring thought. In the modern datacenters we use either ...

There is a thread in GPFS to check and/or renew leases periodically. If the current node is cluster manager(cfgmgr), it checks whether other nodes are renewing their leases in a timely fashion and starts a failure protocol, if not. For other nodes, it ...