WWT and IBM can help customers achieve their AI ambitions. IBM's Storage Scale is a flexible high-performance parallel file storage solution designed to handle massive amounts of unstructured data. Its industry-leading performance makes it ideal for AI workloads, which often involve large datasets and intensive processing. 
 

By providing a scalable and efficient storage foundation, IBM Storage Scale System enables organizations to accelerate AI model training, inference, and data analytics through the following specialized hardwares:  
 

• IBM Storage Scale System 6000: is a hardware implementation of Storage Scale software and is optimized for the most demanding AI, HPC, analytics, and hybrid cloud workloads.
• IBM Storage Scale System 3500: is for customers requiring an enterprise-ready entry-level or mid-level system

Storage Scale Systems can be deployed as a hardware appliance or as a software-defined solution and are fully certified for NVIDIA SuperPOD solutions.  

IBM Storage Scale is essential for a range of pivotal applications, including:

• AI and Machine Learning: Storage Scale is designed to handle large datasets and provide high performance, making it ideal for training and deploying AI models.
• High-Performance Computing (HPC): IBM Storage Scale can handle the massive datasets and demanding workloads associated with HPC applications, such as scientific simulations, weather forecasting, and drug discovery.
• Big Data Analytics: Storage Scale provides the scalability and performance needed for processing and analyzing large datasets, enabling organizations to extract valuable insights.
• Policy-based tiering and data reduction: Customers can move data between different storage tiers and automatically archive older data for retention and compliance.
• Data Protection and Disaster Recovery: The system's built-in data protection features, including cyber-secure data locking and erasure coding, can help organizations safeguard their critical data and ensure business continuity.

WWT Experts are ready to leverage the capabilities of the AI Proving Ground and the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) to support the latest in IBM's Storage Scale System.