Fast track your journey to hybrid cloud and bring data services to your container environment

IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks provides the combined power of open source with Red Hat data services and award-winning IBM software-defined storage offerings designed to simplify the deployment of IBM Cloud Pak solutions while enabling a reliable and efficient storage foundation across your hybrid cloud.

Features

• **Enable software-defined storage for Red Hat OpenShift: **Build any Red Hat OpenShift container environment with a complete software-defined storage infrastructure foundation and the data resources you choose.
• **Choose your data resources: **Choose file, block or object storage for your container data services and deploy new data resources where and when they’re needed.
• **Build new applications: **Transform and move to the cloud for a competitive advantage by using modern processes to build new applications and modernize legacy applications.
• **Optimize cloud deployments: **Each IBM Cloud Pak includes containerized IBM middleware on top of a common integration layer, helping to reduce development time and operational expenses.
• **Gain support for unstructured data: **The CSI open initiative provides an easy-to-deploy, self-service way to provision data and provides an optimized parallel data path to high performance storage.
• **Quickly deploy persistent data resources: **Abstract storage configuration complexities from applications and provision persistent storage based on classes of storage, predefined to comply with business SLAs.
• **Speed up container storage provisioning: **IBM supports the CSI open initiative for its block and file offerings: IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks, Spectrum Scale, IBM FlashSystem and DS8900F.
• **Use the recommended solution for IBM Cloud Paks: **Simplify setup with a default storage layer for persistent data and get an open, faster and more secure way to move core business applications to the cloud.
• **Deliver infrastructure services easily and efficiently: **Combine with IBM Lab Services to get the infrastructure services you need to help build the foundation of a smart enterprise that empowers your business.

Benefits

• **IBM certified: **Storage is fully tested with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Pak® solutions to provide enterprise data services to business-critical environments.
• **Simplified approach: **Deliver a standardized and trusted approach for the deployment, use, monitoring and management of persistent storage for your OpenShift environment.
• **Scalability: **Simply deploy data resources, scaling up or down without impact to your business. Grow, shrink and redeploy depending on application or workload needs.
• **Agility: **Enable data mobility when and where you need it. Use a single Container Storage Interface (CSI) that works with all container orchestration systems.
• **Flexibility: **Maximize data resources with IBM Cloud® Object Storage, products from IBM Spectrum Storage™ Suite plus Red Hat Ceph Storage and OpenShift Data Foundation.
• **Consistency: **Create a consistent Red Hat OpenShift experience for building and managing containerized applications with persistent storage and data services.