IBM FlashSystem 5300: Next-gen data storage solution [Video]

IBM Corp. unveiled the new IBM FlashSystem 5300 on Thursday, a one rack unit that is designed to provide high availability and enterprise-class data services to businesses of all sizes.

The announcement noted the integration of artificial intelligence-powered predictive analytics with Storage Insights as part of the latest release, which included AI-based data placement and automation.

“We took this idea of injecting AI and machine learning down to the hardware layer,” said Scott Baker (pictured, left), chief marketing officer and vice president of IBM Infrastructure Portfolio product marketing at IBM. “Every one of the computational storage devices that are in [the 5300], what we call the FlashCore modules themselves, has the ability to look at the heuristics of data as it comes into the box. This is the future of data storage.”

Baker spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and John Furrier at IBM’s “Future-Ready Storage Redefining Data Center Boundaries”event, during an exclusive broadcast …