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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 8, 2017

Cloud Support for Spectrum Archive

Today, Spectrum Archive supports local and remote tape copies. The ability to send a copy to a cloud, either onsite or offsite, would also be beneficial.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    May 26, 2021

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Spectrum Archive
    Component - IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council (TCC)

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM Explorer for z/OS
    Component - Client
    Operating system - Windows
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

  • Guest
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    May 25, 2021

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM Explorer for z/OS
    Component - Client
    Operating system - Windows
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council (TCC)

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Spectrum Archive
    Component - IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

  • Guest
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    Sep 23, 2020

    The use of cloud storage as the back end of Spectrum Archive, instead of physical tape, is not in the scope of product.

  • Guest
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    May 2, 2019

    This Julio Hernandez OM for Sp. Archive.
    We have no plans for Archive to offload to cloud. Archive is a file system for Tape, so having a cloud interface does not make sense. If customers want to have Scale with COS
    Please redirect the request to my peer in Sp. Scale (Carl Zetie) carlz@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
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    May 30, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Spectrum Archive
    Component - IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Storage TCC - Private Requests
    Component - Other
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council