World Wide Technology and IBM's collaborative and strategic partnership enables a diverse array of solutions designed to meet various business needs and drive business forward for our customers. 

The AI Proving Ground in our Advanced Technology Center (ATC), is equipped to support the most recent advancements in IBM storage platforms: 

IBM Storage Scale - IBM's Storage for AI offering 

IBM's flagship storage offering for AI workloads is IBM Storage Scale. This is both a software and hardware offering (Storage Scale System). Scale is a software-defined parallel file storage solution designed for building a global data platform for demanding workloads like AI, analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC). Features include:

• Global Data Platform: Integrates data from various sources and locations, including non-IBM storage, into a single, unified platform.
• Massively Parallel File System: Enables concurrent access to a large pool of data from multiple nodes for high-performance workloads.
• Scalability: Scales capacity and performance on-demand by adding nodes to the cluster.
• High Availability: Provides data replication for redundancy and disaster recovery.
• Data Abstraction: Simplifies data management by offering a single namespace for file and object data.
• Multi-platform Support: Runs on various hardware platforms including x86, IBM Power, mainframes, ARM processors, and in the cloud.

IBM Storage Fusion

IBM's Storage Fusion is IBM's data platform designed for managing data in containerized applications. It simplifies data deployment and management for these applications. Features include:

• Storage for Containers: IBM Storage Fusion offers data storage specifically designed for the needs of containerized applications. This ensures the data can be accessed and used efficiently by these applications.
• Hybrid Cloud Support: This platform can be deployed on-premises, in public clouds, or a combination of both, giving organizations flexibility in how they manage their data.
• Data Management Features: IBM Storage Fusion provides features for data discovery, security, protection, and mobility. This helps organizations find, secure, and move their data around their IT infrastructure as needed.

Customers can use IBM Storage Fusion to rapidly deploy an on-prem turnkey hybrid cloud container solution with integrated data protection and management features.

Customers can use IBM Storage Scale for: 

• High-Performance Computing (HPC): Provides high-speed access to data for complex simulations and modeling.
• Data Analytics: Supports large-scale data analysis workloads in fields like finance, healthcare, and scientific research.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): Manages the vast amount of data required for training and running AI models.
• Big Data: Efficiently stores and retrieves large datasets for big data analytics.

IBM Storage Ceph 

A software-defined storage platform that allows organizations to consolidate different types of data storage (block, file, and object) into one system. This helps remove data silos and offers a cloud-like experience while keeping data on-premises for better control and security.

Here are some key features of IBM Storage Ceph:

• Scalability: It can grow from a small setup with just three nodes to thousands of nodes, scaling to accommodate massive amounts of data.
• Cost-effective: By using industry-standard x86 hardware, Ceph offers a cost-efficient storage solution.
• Open standards: Built on open standards, Ceph helps keep storage costs in line.
• Flexibility: Ceph offers block storage for structured data and object storage with APIs compatible with Amazon S3, making it suitable for various applications.

Customers can use IBM Storage Ceph for:

• Building data lakes for analytics projects using tools like IBM watsonx
• Consolidating storage infrastructure and reducing complexity.
• Providing cloud-like scalability and flexibility for on-premises storage.