Rapid advancements in application development, especially the emergence of machine learning and AI use cases, highlight the need for a unified and consistent approach to accessing data. As data fabric initiatives emerge, a global data platform for unstructured data is an essential part of the overall solution. IBM Data Access Services S3 is a new feature integrated within Spectrum Scale which delivers high performance object storage services required by new AI and Analytics applications and workloads.

This session will provide a high-level overview to introduce Spectrum Scale Data Access Services S3, and provide a baseline of understanding around the latest software release.