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This is the top 9 takeaways that are important to know about the IBM FlashSystem Family. This will help you understand the top elements of the FlashSystem V9000 and FlashSystem 900.

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This document describes the architecture and deployment procedures of an infrastructure composed of Cisco®, IBM ®, and VMware® virtualization that uses IBM Storwize V7000 Unified storage serving both file and block protocols. The intended audience for this document includes, but is not limited to, sales engineers, field consultants, professional services, IT managers, partner engineering, and customers who want to deploy the core VersaStack architecture with IBM Storwize V7000.

Combining the performance and operational efficiency of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure and IBM Storwize storage, the VersaStack solution offers ease and speed of deployment with operational agility and the power of unified management.

In this document you will find the opinion from ESG about VersaStack, a new converged infrastructure solution that focuses on making cloud, big data and analytics, and mobile deployments attainable and efficiently packaged for simplified deployment.

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This paper reviews key aspects of IBM Spectrum Accelerate and its proven technology base and how they combine to deliver flexible storage capacity and services with advanced functions and management simplicity.

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The landscape of data required for analytics is evolving rapidly. Important requirements to consider include: Scalability for big data volumes, Performance for big data velocity, Dynamic tiering for best blended characteristics, and Multi-protocol accessibility for big data variety.

IBM Spectrum Storage simplifies your storage infrastructure and optimizes data economics. Managing 2,500 petabytes of data created daily presents new opportunities and storage challenges for organizations. IBM® Spectrum Storage™ is the new family of software defined storage that conquers the data explosion with flexible data center infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more!

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In this paper, EMA examines the challenges facing organizations as a result of rapid data growth, presents SDS as a potential solution, and examines the IBM Spectrum Storage family.

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This White Paper examines the range of Software Defined Storage (SDS) approaches, and weighs their potential value and suitability. With a reminder that users' needs are paramount the paper provides practical tips on how to balance the options and get started on optimized SDS adoption.

Charting a governance strategy for a hybrid cloud environment is not something to consider at a future date. It needs to happen now. With strong information governance foundations organizations will have the flexibility to move with speed and confidence.

Good information governance in a hybrid cloud environment requires a solid foundation of process, organizational and technical enablers. This e-book focuses on better understanding your data, including using metadata to help business and IT teams collaborate and building confidence in data.

This e-book describes how a data refinery can make trusted data available quickly and easily to people and systems across your organization. It includes simple steps you can take to start exploring - and implementing - this strategy for handling the challenges of hybrid data environments.

The Forrester Wave: Data Governance Tools, Q2 2014, IBM has been named a leader and has earned the highest scores for both strategy and market presence. Review the analysis to learn about the five key data governance domains.

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by leveraging IBM InfoSphere Information Integration and Governance (IIG) solutions.

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Glynn Bird discussed the performance tradeoffs of NoSQL and relational databases, data modeling in a schema less system, common transactional architectures for applications built on NoSQL, and when you should consider managed, hosted solutions like Cloudant.