IBM Storage Scale, a software-defined object and file storage, allows organizations to build global data platforms for artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics and high-performance computing. Unlike traditional applications that work with structured data, today's performance-intensive AI and analytics workloads operate on unstructured data, such as documents, audio, images, videos, and other objects. IBM Storage Scale provides global data abstractions services that seamlessly connect data sources in multiple locations, even non-IBM storage environments. It is based on a massively-parallel file system that can be deployed across multiple hardware platforms, including x86 and IBM Power mainframes as well as ARM-based POSIX clients, virtual machines and Kubernetes.