IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale are critical software components of IBM’s global data platform that is engineered to unify data and applications from edge to core to cloud. IBM continues to drive leadership for scalable high-performance file and object workloads, but the primary focus is on AI, HPC and analytics workloads. Our story is not just about another storage product but is about innovation and a storage portfolio that is powered by our global data platform. Our software defined global data platform is designed to accelerate insights by providing seamless access to data that is not limited by borders or data silos. Our products are all about solving hard problems with a comprehensive set of data services so that customers can react faster to competition and to market dynamics. IBM Storage continues to innovate to help solve the difficult data issues that customers face. IBM’s global data platform software-defined storage portfolio consists of four products: IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM Spectrum Scale and the Elastic Storage System (ESS) and IBM Spectrum Discover.Īt IBM we want to help customers break through data challenges and provide services and solutions that optimize IT, secure IT, and connect IT. For the seventh year in a row, IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for both its completeness of vision and ability to execute in the data-driven scale-out storage market for unstructured data.