Hybrid cloud technologies and Flash storage are crucial to your customers’ business. IBM’s announcement of new hybrid cloud solutions and all-Flash offerings based on our award-winning IBM Spectrum Storage family underscores IBM’s continuing commitment to delivering the best in hybrid cloud solutions for our mutual clients. The IBM Institute for Business Value reports that public clouds are on the rise in nearly 80 percent of companies, and more than twice as many high-performing organizations have started cloud initiatives as low-performing organizations.

Our November 2 announcements provide enhanced hybrid cloud capabilities across our all-Flash storage families built with IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, including IBM Storwize V7000F and 5030F, IBM FlashSystem V9000, IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and all-Flash VersaStack solutions.

IBM Spectrum Virtualize hybrid cloud capabilities enable your clients to practically and cost-effectively modernize their IT infrastructures by adding hybrid cloud storage capabilities to their on-premises storage. Leveraging powerful storage virtualization within IBM Spectrum Virtualize, your clients will expand the abilities of their existing storage (including almost 400 systems from IBM and other vendors) using very cost-effective operational budgets rather than major new CapEx expenditures. At the beginning of the year, we announced transparent cloud tiering for IBM Spectrum Scale. Now we’re introducing cloud data sharing, allowing IBM Spectrum Scale to share file and object data across on-premises and cloud storage to support cloud-native applications.

The new hybrid cloud capabilities in IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM Spectrum Scale join existing hybrid cloud support in IBM Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Control and IBM Cloud Object Storage. Now you can offer your clients hybrid cloud solutions for all types of data on virtually all types of storage. None of our competitors can make this kind of comprehensive claim!

If your clients are looking to gain competitive advantage in the Cognitive Era, adding hybrid cloud storage for all their data means:

• Dramatic savings to their OpEx and CapEx budgets, as well as staffing operational efficiencies
• Improved productivity and agility with hybrid cloud for block data regardless of server or storage type
• Transformative economics for retention, archive and recovery using cloud storage to complement on-premises storage
• Improved development of cognitive applications, which rely on access to file and object data wherever it resides and in the manner that is most effective

Hybrid cloud capabilities are just the beginning. We’ve also announced a new high-density, all-Flash enclosure for the IBM Storwize family, FlashSystem V9000, SVC and VersaStack. Your clients can grow their storage to up to 32 PB of Flash in a single clustered system without disruption, making this the best system to deploy private cloud solutions.

And the new IBM DS8880 high-performance Flash delivers twice the performance for faster decision-making on large data—ideal for those clients running critical applications such as core banking on IBM z Systems and IBM Power Systems.

We are also proud to announce the IBM DeepFlash Elastic Storage Server (ESS), part of the IBM Spectrum Scale family of solutions. This scalable all-Flash solution for unstructured data, big data analytics and cloud-native applications delivers eight times the performance of previous ESS systems on application benchmarks.

Every day, clients trust you to guide them through the maze of storage choices. With IBM’s award-winning storage solutions, you can confidently help your clients increase the value of their current infrastructure while leveraging new hybrid cloud capabilities.

By becoming an IBM Business Partner, you too can choose the business model that is right for you here to provide your clients with choice and flexibility of hosted, on-premises or hybrid models.