The Computer Science Storage Systems group at IBM Research explores and develops new technologies in storage systems, file systems and server software, and advanced storage managment, applications, and solutions. The Storage Systems research group also facilitates IBM's exploitation of these technologies in products and services.
The Storage Systems research 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 and standards, such as IBM® RAMAC®, IBM 9337 RAID subsystem, Tivoli® Storage Manager, General Parallel File System (GPFS), iSCSI and iSER. Most recently, technology developed by Storage Systems research is being used in IBM Enterprise Disk Storage and in IBM System Storage Virtualization products: IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.
Our goal is to continue to build innovative storage systems that leverage high-speed network protocols, centralize storage management, provide enhanced policy-based storage management functions and dramatically reduce storage management costs. In addition, we strive to develop systems and solutions that make data sharing across heterogeneous platforms easier to perform, support new applications and requirements such as regulatory compliance, provide incremental scalability that can handle petabytes of data and ensure high system availability and reliability.
IBM Computer Science Storage System Research is distributed worldwide across the following IBM research labs: