Introduction to the IBM Storage as a Service solution
The latest member in the IBM Storage Family is the newly announced IBM Storage as a Service (STaaS) offering.
Buyer behavior is shifting from technology-focused to service-level agreement (SLA)-driven cloud-like simplicity. IT staff are being downsized and transitioning into generalist roles, rather than specializing in specific areas. Enterprise workloads need flexibility where applications are to be deployed. New and better infrastructures, such as 5G, allow the growth outside the traditional data center. The IBM STaaS offering is a pure OPEX solution and does not require initial capital.
Some important aspects of the consumption-based solutions are as follows:
Flexible scale-up and scale-down ...

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