Spectrum Scale is a IBM’s clustered filesystem which provides extreme scalability, high performance and reliability for HPC workloads. Its widely used by major financial, weather forecasting and genomic research organizations across the world. IBM Spectrum Scale...
Proof of Concept Articles
Getting to Know IBM FlashSystem 9100 | The Performance of Flash and NVMe & the Reliability of FlashCore
The new FlashSystem 9100 combines the high performance of NVMe or IBM FlashCore drives with the advanced capabilities of the Spectrum Virtualize family software stack, in just a 2U footprint. ATS Group had the opportunity to participate in the beta program for the...
Proof of Concept: Build, Modernize and Protect with IBM Cloud Private
By Andrew Wojnarek Director of Capacity and Performance Management (CPM) (ATS Innovation Center, Malvern, PA) IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes based container orchestration platform that empowers developers with common services for self-service deployment,...
Proof of Concept: Benchmarking Postgres on IBM Power
By Andrew Wojnarek Director of Capacity and Performance Management (CPM) (ATS Innovation Center, Malvern, PA) Concept Timeline: February – May 2018 PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined...
File Operations Monitoring With IBM Spectrum Scale File Audit Logging
With the release of Spectrum Scale 5.0, IBM is now offering File Audit Logging capability. Spectrum Scale File Audit Logging takes locally generated file system events and puts them on a multi-node message queue from which they are consumed and written to a retention...
IBM Spectrum Protect and Suse Enterprise Storage 5
A Brief History... The ATS Group has long provided services around the IBM Spectrum Protect product. It has been a mature solution that we continue to standby. We also continuously explore new technology everyday. Roughly 2 years ago I remember heavily investing time...
Automating IBM Spectrum Scale Cluster Builds in AWS
As an IBM premier business partner, we are always looking for creative ways to meet our customer’s needs. The demand for low cost, quickly deployed solutions is ever increasing in today’s “cloud first” climate. Many of our customers have invested a significant amount...
IBM Object Cloud Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage is part of the IBM family of Storage and Software-Defined Infrastructure. IBM Cloud Object storage allows you to choose flexible deployment options – dedicated and private cloud or public and shared cloud, implemented within a region or...
Transparent Cloud Tiering with IBM Spectrum Scale
With the release of IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.1, IBM is now offering a hybrid cloud solution to leverage object cloud storage as an additional tier within their ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) engine. As an IBM Business Partner, we’ve stood up several IBM Spectrum...
HADOOP ON IBM POWER
Hadoop is undoubtedly the most popular Open Source software suite used to process big datasets using the MapReduce programming model. It makes sense that we’d want to tune and configure Hadoop on the most IBM Powerful architecture for running big data workloads: IBM...
IBM Spectrum Protect and Backing up to Object Storage in the Cloud
The ATS Group is a business partner specializing in the full IBM enterprise stack, and IBM Spectrum Protect in particular. We’ve helped customers set up IBM Spectrum Protect environments that backup petabytes of data in a way that’s robust and actually works at scale....