New Elastic Storage for Linux on IBMA System zA is an extremely powerful file system that is based on the IBM General Parallel File System technology, which is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, and it is also enabled for technical computing, Big Data & Analytics, and Cloud. Elastic Storage is being used extensively across multiple industries worldwide to provide simplified data management and integrated information lifecycle tools capable of managing petabytes of data and billions of files, in order to arrest the growing cost of managing ever growing amounts of data.
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