<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Full PR release below:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/deploy-ibm-spectrum-scale-on-the-aws-cloud-with-new-quick-start/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/09/deploy-ibm-spectrum-scale-on-the-aws-cloud-with-new-quick-start/</a> </span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Posted On: Sep 13, 2017</span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">This new Quick Start automatically deploys a highly available IBM Spectrum Scale cluster with replication on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, into a configuration of your choice. (A small cluster can be deployed in about 25 minutes.)</span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">IBM Spectrum Scale is a flexible, software-defined storage solution that can be deployed as highly available, high-performance file storage. It can scale in several dimensions, including performance (bandwidth and IOPS), capacity, and number of nodes that can mount the file system. The product’s high performance and scalability helps address the needs of applications whose performance (or performance-to-capacity ratio) demands cannot be met by traditional scale-up storage systems. The IBM Spectrum Scale software is being made available through a 90-day trial license evaluation program.</span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">This Quick Start automates the deployment of IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS for users who require highly available access to a shared name space across multiple instances with good performance, without requiring an in-depth knowledge of IBM Spectrum Scale.</span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">The Quick Start deploys IBM Network Shared Disk (NSD) storage server instances and IBM Spectrum Scale compute instances into a virtual private cloud (VPC) in your AWS account. Data and metadata elements are replicated across two Availability Zones for optimal data protection. You can build a new VPC for IBM Spectrum Scale, or deploy the software into your existing VPC. The automated deployment provisions the IBM Spectrum Scale instances in Auto Scaling groups for instance scaling and management.</span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">The deployment and configuration tasks are automated by AWS CloudFormation templates that you can customize during launch. You can also use the templates as a starting point for your own implementation, by downloading them from the <a href="https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-ibm-spectrum-scale" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">GitHub repository</a>. The Quick Start includes a guide with step-by-step deployment and configuration instructions.</span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">To get started with IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS, use the following resources:</span><span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">View the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/ibm-spectrum-scale/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">architecture and details</a></span><span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">View the <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-reference/ibm/spectrum/scale/latest/doc/ibm-spectrum-scale-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">deployment guide</a></span><span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Browse and launch other <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">AWS Quick Start reference deployments</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 September 2017 at 08:40, John Hearns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.hearns@asml.com" target="_blank">john.hearns@asml.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I guess this is not news on this list, however I did see a reference to SpectrumScale on The Register this morning,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">which linked to this paper:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-reference/ibm/spectrum/scale/latest/doc/ibm-spectrum-scale-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf" target="_blank">https://s3.amazonaws.com/<wbr>quickstart-reference/ibm/<wbr>spectrum/scale/latest/doc/ibm-<wbr>spectrum-scale-on-the-aws-<wbr>cloud.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The article is here <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/25/storage_super_club_sandwich/" target="_blank">
https://www.theregister.co.uk/<wbr>2017/09/25/storage_super_club_<wbr>sandwich/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12 Terabyte Helium drives now available.<u></u><u></u></p>
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