IBM Elastic Storage Server

IBM Elastic Storage is a highly available and highly scalable software based storage system for AI and Big Data. We had high performance use cases for our AI applications for an AI based product that we were building and IBM Elastic storage looked like a perfect solution.This service simplified the storage for Data and Model management and we were easily able to storage huge multiple types of data include images, natural language as well as structured datasets using this solution.

Reliable data storage and access is a big challenge in AI applications and IBM ESS is a service you need to solve the problem. If you are building an AI service and you already use the IBM ecosystem for AI compute requirements, ESS can serve as an excellent software based storage solution. Integration with other platforms such as EMR/Databricks is still a challenge and should be improved.

ESS is a robustly articulated architecture built mainly focusing on file sharing and reliability. We could able to overcome some major challenges like sharing files across multiple teams located in different GEOS and seamlessly copying/migrating data across multi-site environments. In addition, we overcome one of the major hurdles of multiprotocol access and a perfect stack of affordable distributed storage array

1. Perfect solution for geographically separated teams to work on sharing files/media.
2. Mainly suitable for CCTV/video recordings as the network speed and disk throughput is mammoth
3. Suites well for organizations looking for their own private cloud object storage solutions
4. primarily focused on hosting next-generation of applications centric to AI/IOT and ML.

IBM Elastic Storage Server or IBM Elastic Storage Server is one of the best scalable, high-performance storage appliances available in the market. We are using IBM Elastic Storage Server for Big Data Application storage which needs on-demand scalability and high performance. IBM Elastic Storage Server is best suited for such purpose as it has reduced our maintenance and operational issues with the traditional on premise storage solution.

The biggest challenges with Big Data Applications are scalability and performance. IBM Elastic Storage Server provides solutions for both of these challenges. With on-demand scalability, we can forecast the storage requirement better unlike in traditional storage solutions where we had to predict the storage requirement months before. Also, we get a lot more performance with IBM Elastic Storage Server as its spread across multiple nodes over the cloud which helps in fault tolerance also.