White Papers

IBM Storwize Random Access Compression Engine – RACE

IBM Storwize's Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) architecture is based on 35 patents that are not about compression, but rather define how to make industry standard LZ compression of primary storage operate in real-time and allow random access. This white paper describes the RACE architecture and the benefits of primary data compression without performance degradation.

Primary Storage Optimization: An Overview

Primary storage capacity optimization results in savings that initiate at the point of origin and cascade across the entire data life cycle. This paper provides an overview of the different approaches to primary storage capacity savings—highlighting storage capacity optimization methodologies and primary storage technologies, deployments and performance considerations.

IBM Storwize Technical Validation Report

IBM Storwize appliances, deployed on IBM hardware, compress data in real-time as it is passed to the storage system. This technical report describes the tests performed by IBM and Storwize personnel, and the results of each verification test.

PetroStor™ Scalable Disk Storage

Landmark, IBM Storwize and NetApp created the PetroStor™ storage solution to allow seismic and exploration companies to access all of their data instantly and cost effectively. The solution combines leading enterprise solutions from NetApp, best of breed compression technology from Storwize and industry-leading exploration and interpretation software from Landmark...

IBM Storwize and NetApp Deduplication

As storage cost increases continue to outpace the growth of storage budgets, storage engineers and decision makers are ever vigilant of emerging optimization technologies that enable them to meet capacity demands while minimizing capital expenditures. Recently, several storage optimization approaches have received significant attention in the industry - namely, real-time compression and deduplication. Although traditionally viewed as mutually exclusive, the two technologies are, in fact, quite complementary. The remainder of this paper discusses the compelling financial and operational advantages of deploying IBM Storwize real-time compression and NetApp deduplication in conjunction...

IBM Storwize and Data Domain Deduplication

As storage cost increases continue to outpace the growth of storage budgets, IT decision makers are deploying optimization technologies that enable them to meet capacity demands while minimizing capital expenditures. Recently, several storage optimization approaches have received significant attention in the industry - namely, real-time compression for primary and secondary data and deduplication for highly redundant backup data sets. Although sometimes viewed as mutually exclusive, the two technologies are, in fact, very complementary. The remainder of this paper discusses the compelling financial and operational advantages of deploying IBM Storwize real-time compression and Data Domain deduplication in conjunction...

IBM Storwize Technical Overview

The IBM Storwize appliances family of capacity optimization solutions has introduced a new method of on-line data compression that radically changes the traditional economics of storage. Although data compression is a proven technology, it has not been employed systematically for network storage because there was no real-time, lossless, transparent solution that could achieve significant primary data compression with no performance impact...

IBM Storwize and File Virtualization

Extensive testing with IBM Storwize appliances and file virtualization devices validates that IBM Storwize transparently integrates with leading virtualization solutions, without compromising either the data compression capabilities of IBM Storwize, or the storage management capabilities of the virtualization solutions...

Primary Data Compression in Oracle Environments

Continuous data growth is one of the greatest challenges that organizations, in general, and Oracle database managers, in particular, face today. The IBM Storwize data compression solution offers an ideal solution to the costs and operational complications of data growth in Oracle environments. The real-time, lossless compression and random data access are precisely the type of solution required in database environments...

IBM Storwize Solutions for VMware Environments

IBM Storwize real-time data compression offers unique advantages that provide not only long-term data footprint reduction efficiencies, but also immediate gains of the guest operating systems and virtualization capacity of the VMware environment...

Preserving Data Integrity Assurance While Providing High Levels of Compression for Primary Storage

IBM Storwize has created a solution that provides high levels of data compression for primary storage. In most cases this compression is achieved with a performance gain making the IBM Storwize solution viable for even high performance transaction processing environments. As part of the design of the solution Storwize has developed the DIA Data Integrity Assurance architecture. This document describes the DIA Data Integrity Assurance architecture and shows how the DIA Data Integrity Assurance is able to ensure end to end data integrity...

IBM Storwize High Availability Configurations for NAS Environments

IBM Storwize technology deploys seamlessly and transparently into high availability network storage infrastructures. The IBM Storwize appliances uses IBM Storwize proprietary LSM technology to convey the active/passive status change between the switch and the NAS gateway, preserving the inherent availability of the storage system...