3 WAYS TO OPTIMIZE IBM CLOUD WITH DBM CLOUD SYSTEMS' REPLICATION SERVICE

Thursday, June 21, 2018
Author: Dr. Joseph Slember | SVP Engineering, DBM Cloud Systems
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DBM Cloud Systems and IBM are collaborating to deploy our software platform to efficiently and selectively replicate data across hybrid, IBM Cloud regions and from AWS. We signed an agreement with IBM to sell DBM’s Advanced Intelligent Replication Engine (AIRE^TM) as a Service through the IBM Cloud catalog.

Why are IBM and DBM Cloud Systems collaborating? 

#1. Highly selective replication identifies objects via patent-pending algorithms

We built the most advanced software platform for replicating unstructured data in the Cloud and will be offering it as a Service on the IBM Cloud.  AIRE^TM maximizes performance by selectively replicating only new and changed data based on metadata tagging and synchronizes IBM COS data in hybrid and multi-region IBM Cloud environments.

#2. High performance architecture at petabyte scale

Our replication service can manage petabytes of IBM COS object data across highly distributed IBM Cloud architectures with rock-solid reliability and we dynamically adjust system load to maximize throughput.  This gives customers the ability to scale resource usage and performance.

#3. Intelligent replication for cost optimization

Our replication service is based on policies linked to object data which drastically reduces time and resources required to maintain data consistency across source and target IBM COS environments. Selective replication also minimizes replication time, cost, CPU utilization and bandwidth.

IBM Partnership

“Offering DBM Cloud Systems’ AIRE^TM solution as part of IBM’s Cloud Catalog gives customers a competitive advantage in their use of cloud technology and increases the ROI of IBM Cloud,” said Walter Falk, Head of IBM Business Development, Watson and Cloud Platform. “The AIRE^TM Software-as-a-Service solution takes the security and benefits of IBM Cloud to the next level.”.

Learn More

DBM Cloud Systems provides the most scalable software-only platform replicating object data across Cloud and hybrid environments.  Patent pending.

Learn more at http://www.dbmclouds.com

IBM Cloud is the cloud for smarter business. Built for all your applications. AI ready. Secure to the core.

Dr. Joseph Slember

SVP Engineering

Joe Slember is SVP Engineering and responsible for all aspects of the software development process for DBM Cloud Systems. Prior to joining DBM Cloud Systems, Joe was VP of Software Engineering at Oracle. Joe began his career at IBM Research and has held engineering leadership positions at Pi-Coral and Violin Memory. Joe holds a B.A. in Economics from Davidson College, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in Electrical Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

WHAT IS DATA GEO-SOVEREIGNTY?

Thursday, April 27, 2017
Author: Al Basseri | SVP of Field Engineering, DBM Cloud Systems
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A growing trend in cloud adoption is customers deploying in more than one public cloud and in hybrid cloud deployments with some of their data running on premise. Increasingly customers want flexibility and choice and the ability to ensure that their data never leaves their sovereign borders. For example, an international company may only want a subset or all of its data to reside on their local national cloud provider. What if there was a way to deploy an open software system that ensured this and allowed customers cloud neutrality. 

Today a new trend for customers and government entities is having their data exposed to cloud providers that cross many regions and borders. The idea of Data Geo-Sovereignty is increasing an important issue to consider. First, let us revisit Sovereignty, it is a type of political power, and it is exercised through some form of government control. 

If indeed your data can be accessed or stored in many Sovereign nations and regions through a cloud provider than your exposure and access to your data may fall under laws and rules of multiple sovereign nations with different governing rules. This may have a larger effect on your own customers and departments within a company. Your risk and costs may be much higher. 

It is one of those terms that might be tossed around without much thought. But it is increasing an important word within an elastic age of IT that involves a multi-cloud strategy. Whether you are using a US-based cloud provider or utilizing a non-US based cloud provider in other sovereign nations other than US, you have to recognize that Geo-Data Sovereignty draws from legal, political and business rules and laws that go across many borders. At times you might not be aware where your data actually resides in a multi-cloud deployment. To blindly trust a single cloud provider might not always be the wisest move, besides even each cloud provider might have different standards. Regardless, the practical approach for any multi-cloud customer is to have the ability to trust but verify. 

Having a single virtual view that has visibility across multiple cloud providers and can guide you in enforcing policy and more importantly alert you in regards to your exposure across other sovereign nations and regions is critical. Having the ability to set up policy based on regions, departments and other requirements are critical. 

At DBM Cloud Systems, we are excited to offer an open cloud software platform that can assist existing public and hybrid cloud customers with Data Geo-Sovereignty and control. It is one of many new features we are building with our Open Cloud Platform designed to give a multi-cloud customer choice and control. 


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