Originally posted by: TonyPearson

Christopher Vollmar IBM Storage Architect supporting customers in Canada and the Caribbean

Well we certainly had a busy April 2nd, so I wanted to take a minute to touch on the announcement surrounding IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud and its availability in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

For those of you who attended the [IBM Think 2019] conference this year and stopped by the IBM Systems area on the event floor, you saw a preview of this running. This week we announced planned availability in AWS. If you were watching the live simulcast from Rome, you saw the IBM Product Marketing Manager for Spectrum Storage show this as part of the live demo. If you missed the live simulcast, check out the [April 2 Simulcast replay].

With the announcement of Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud V8.3.0, clients now have the ability to run Spectrum Virtualize like they can run IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS. IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud has been available on IBM Cloud since 2017, and this extends the number of Cloud Service Providers. To learn more see the [Implementation Guide for IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud] redpaper.

The key advantages that [IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud] can deliver to clients are:

• Data mobility to or from public cloud. This means customers looking to leverage hybrid Multicloud data mobility for disaster recovery or workload migration on AWS and IBM Cloud.
   
• Non-disruptive data migration to, from, and between clouds. Leveraging tools like Global Mirror, clients are able to replicate data, and workloads between on premise IBM Storwize, IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC), VersaStack and IBM FlashSystem 9100 systems and off premise instances of IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud in IBM Cloud and AWS.
   
• Cyber-resiliency with "air-gapped" snapshot in public cloud. Leveraging the native tools to create snapshots of the workloads and place them in S3 object storage in the cloud.

IBM Spectrum Virtualize will be deployed in AWS EC2 instances and be able to virtualize EBS volumes to present the storage to host systems. This also means that clients will also be able to leverage IBM Easy Tier across those virtualized EBS volumes to make the most out of the capability of their environments while still managing the cost, just like in on-premise solutions today.

This naturally comes along with the consistent enterprise-class storage functionality and management that clients are use to working with the IBM Spectrum Virtualize family. As part of this announcement, clients will also soon see pre-tested blueprints that will help speed deployment with confidence.

To learn more, see the [IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud V8.3.0 and IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software V8.3.0] announcement letter.

Here is a selection of the Spectrum Virtualize sessions that I think will be interesting for those who are attending and want to know more about more about Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud.

To learn more about IBM Systems Technical University (TechU) in Atlanta, GA (USA), April 29-May 3, visit [ibm.biz/Atlanta2019] registration page.