Storage Systems

The IBM Research Storage Systems group is well-known for its pioneering research in the areas of RAID, parallel file systems and enterprise backup and restore. We have also contributed to major storage industry products, such as IBM® RAMAC®, IBM 9337 RAID subsystem, Tivoli® Storage Manager (previously known as ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager), General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM® TotalStorage® Enterprise Storage Server (ESS). We have made significant contributions to industry standards and specifications such as iSCSI and iSER. Most recently, technology developed by Storage Systems research is being used in the IBM System Storage Virtualization Family of products, which includes IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.

Our major areas of research include the following:

• Advanced Storage Systems
• File Systems
  
• Storage Management and Solutions

Our research covers all aspects of storage systems and storage solutions, and we are exploring technologies that can transform storage systems and support new classes of applications. Our goal is to design innovative storage systems and file systems, simplify and dramatically reduce the cost of storage management, and create new solutions that address the requirements of emerging data-intensive applications.

We collaborate with university partners and where appropriate, we strive for the rapid transfer of our technologies to IBM products by working closely with our product partners.

More information on storage systems research across IBM can be found at IBM Research - Storage Systems.