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## 3.20.1 Architecture, security, and data collection 

Figure 3-22 shows the architecture of the IBM Storage Insights application, the products supported and the three main teams of people who can benefit from using the tool. 

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IBM Storage Insights provides a very lightweight data collector that is deployed on a customer-supplied server. This can be either a Linux, Windows, or AIX server, or as a guest in a virtual machine (for example, a VMware guest). 

The data collector will stream performance, capacity, asset, and configuration metadata to your IBM Cloud instance. 

The metadata flows in one direction: from your data center to IBM Cloud over HTTPS. In the IBM Cloud, your metadata is protected by physical, organizational, access, and security controls. IBM Storage Insights is ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management certified. 

Figure 3-23 shows the data flow from systems to the IBM Storage Insights cloud. 

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