Hi all, if you have been re-directed here from the old developerworks blog site, you will need to search here again for the topic you wanted as they could only setup a re-direct to the home page for any of our old content. Update as of 8th January 2020 I'm still cloning the old content... Continue Reading →
Our New SuperBlog URL
Please bookmark this new URL : barrywhytestorage.blog Hi all, welcome to the new site for our IBM Storage Blog. On 1st January 2020 IBM is sunsetting the old developerworks blog portal, and as such both Andrew and I have decided to move our content to wordpress. This is the new home of both : An... Continue Reading →
Configuring IBM Storwize and SVC for Optimal Performance – Parts 3 and 4
ORIGINALLY POSTED 5th October 2013 30,678 Views on developerworks I know, I promised this some months ago, and I've been enjoying my spare time too much, and not blogging enough! So rather than keep you all waiting even more, here is a PDF of the presentation I gave at IBM Edge 2013 in Vegas. Hopefully... Continue Reading →
Jon Tate – IBM EasyTier with IBM Realtime Compression
ORIGINALLY POSTED 16th September 2013 23,149 views on developerworks Recently we published an IBM Redbooks Solution Guide on Implementing IBM Easy Tier with IBM Real-time Compression. IBM® Easy Tier® is a performance function that automatically and non-disruptively migrates frequently accessed data from magnetic media to solid-state drives (SSDs). In that way, the most frequently accessed... Continue Reading →
Jon Tate – Dispute it we must…
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th September 2013 18,915 views on developerworks “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope. Well we are mixing up poetry and Star Wars here today (or tomorrow, if it is already tomorrow where you are), and finish it off with a cryptic message. Anyway, let's cut to the chase here: a... Continue Reading →
Jon Tate – Flash but not Harry – just an IBM Redbook – and a warning about tree roots
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th June 2013 26,816 views on developerworks Just over a week or so ago we completed the ITSO Redbook residency to create a book based on the SAN Volume Controller and the IBM FlashSystem 820. Now, normally we like to get these things out very quickly and the team, Danny Bryant, Christian Burns,... Continue Reading →
Jon Tate – Living life on the Edge – Storwize V7000 and SANSlide Redpaper
ORIGINALLY POSTED 12th June 2013 25,987 views on developerworks A quick update from IBM Edge2013 at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, and we are very pleased to have launched, announced, published as a draft paper the results of work that we have been doing with a company called Bridgeworks, and their SANSlide product. They are... Continue Reading →
Jon Tate – Flash but not Gordon – Just an IBM redpaper
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd June 2013 26,956 views on developerworks It is hard to look anywhere these days without seeing Flash being used. I think the word that marketing like to use, unless it has fallen out of favour is "pervasive". Mind you in the hands of some people it is definitely moving from "pervasive" to... Continue Reading →
SVC, Invista, Vplex – Software!
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th May 2013 11,584 views on developerworks Just a quick one - while having a scan through IBM's new(ish) ability to review products on its main website, I found this : http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/reviews.html It did make me chukkle... its cetainly no Invista either - and all this talk of "software defined storage" - come... Continue Reading →
Jon Tate – IBM Redbooks now available at an Apple iBookstore near you.
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th May 2013 26,757 views on developerworks. We are delighted to announce an exciting addition to the distribution channel of IBM Redbooks – now available at the Apple iBookstore is the ability to download, for free, (I probably should add some disclaimer about network charges may apply so this is it!) selected books.... Continue Reading →
Introducing Jon Tate – Mr IBM Storage Redbooks
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th May 2013 8,972 views on developerworks Hi all, I'd like to introduce Jon Tate who has been added as a co-author to my blog. Jon is known to the team here as "Mr IBM Redbooks" - and will be posting about new publications, any new residencies that are available etc, specifically related... Continue Reading →
