IBM and Object-based storage software and appliances in our cloud age.

The rapid growth of unstructured and structured data is a source of multiple challenges and opportunities that are now at the core of stakes within organizations across the world.

This reality means inter alia that, organizations or data-centric enterprises need henceforth strategic data flexibility, simplified management, and consistency with on-premise, cloud, and hybrid cloud deployment options.

The emergence of new storage technologies, such as object storage delivered through Cleversafe, allows companies to store and manage massive amounts of data while meeting the demands of data-intensive workloads delivered via the cloud.

Henceforth IBM will integrate the Cleversafe portfolio into its IBM Cloud business unit with the goal to give users, strategic data flexibility, simplified management, and consistency with on-premise, cloud, and hybrid cloud deployment options.