Storage Scale Accelerates Data For AI
Blocks & Files, Monday, October 20th, 2025
The latest, v6.0, major release of IBM's Storage Scale has a Data Acceleration Tier (DAT), a high-performance NVMeoF-based storage layer designed to deliver extreme IOPS and ultra-low latency for real-time AI inferencing workloads.
Storage Scale, originally called GPFS, is IBM's parallel file system software and is popular in supercomputing and high-performance computing circles as well as in enterprise computing shops adopting HPC-style IT for workloads needing fast file IO, such as GenAI. It is adapting to the GenAI era by speeding data delivery to GPU servers with a new tier of storage for low-latency and high-speed access; the DAT layer, which uses Asymmetric Data Replication. This provides a 'performance' data replica for fast reads and a 'reliable' data replica for data safety, protected by erasure coding.