Implementation Guide for IBM Elastic Storage System 5000

Use cases

This chapter reviews the major use cases for IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage System 5000 (IBM ESS 5000).

This chapter covers the following topics:

•4.1, “IBM ESS 5000 use cases overview” on page 80

•4.2, “Large capacity and data lake workloads” on page 81

•4.3, “Analytics and high-performance workloads” on page 86

4.1 IBM ESS 5000 use cases overview

There are three main use case segments for IBM Spectrum Scale and Elastic Storage Server. This chapter describes each of these segments:

•Enterprise data lakes and specific industry ...