IBM Spectrum Accelerate Deployment, Usage, and Maintenance

Introducing IBM Spectrum Accelerate

A member of the IBM Spectrum Storage family, IBM Spectrum Accelerate is a software-defined storage solution that uses many of the features and capabilities of the IBM XIV storage software.

This chapter describes the solution and includes the following topics:

•1.1, “IBM Spectrum Storage family overview” on page 2

•1.2, “IBM Spectrum Accelerate overview” on page 3

•1.3, “IBM Spectrum Accelerate technical overview” on page 8

•1.4, “Typical use cases” on page 10

1.1 IBM Spectrum Storage family overview

The IBM Spectrum ...