Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th June 2011 13,528 views on developerworks I’ve been traveling quite a bit over the last couple of months, both business and pleasure. Large amounts of this, especially the business travel has been in the car where I’ve been enjoying the use of the USB port in the glove box to upload mp3... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th May 2011 17,074 views on developerworks As hinted by my last post, the next release of SVC software is on its way, available in early June, along with the new optional 10Gbit iSCSI support. Since SVC, and V7000 are essentially the same thing, just packaged in different hardware vehicles, all of the... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 5th May 2011 12,646 views on developerworks Yes, I am still in the land of the living. I promise (to myself as much as anything) that I will blog a whole bunch in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, coming to an SVC, or V7000 GUi near you…
ORIGINALLY POSTED 19th March 2011 17,483 views on developerworks At the risk of re-gurgitating recent Storage benchmarketing scars and rumblings, its probably escaped most people that we just published another Storwize V7000 SPC-1 benchmark. Why another I hear you ask, well the first one we published was back in November when the product first GA'd.... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st November 2010 14,207 views on developerworks It was nice to have a day back in the office today, the last couple of weeks have gone by in somewhat of a blurr, with several offsite customer visits, several more visiting Hursley, my vLab sesson at IP expo in London, then last week in... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th October 2010 17,538 views on developerworks There are two reasons that my blogging this year has been sporadic at best. One, the sheer volume of work, its become the norm at the moment for the whole team to be spending evenings and weekends working on our baby.Why have we been all so... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th October 2010 10,920 views on developerworks Well I'm almost recovered from the hectic day yesterday. My day started with the train from Southampton at 6:30am to get up to London in time to prep before the first session of the day. Before I get too far, thanks to all that came along... Continue Reading →
(A Brief History of Recent Time - Part5) ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th October 2010 17,846 views on developerworks Well as you have probably read, or heard, the Storwize V7000 is why the SVC team has been so busy over the last 18 months, and why my blogging has been sporadic at best. Hopefully the point of... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED October 4th 2010 8,412 views on developerworks 2008-2010 plus ... ?! With all that history of ground breaking products, real innovation, first to market with a real working virtualization solution - I guess the question is... What next??? Hopefully I'll see some of you in London on Thursday for the UK Launch event...... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd October 2010 16,162 views on developerworks 2000-2007 The "Virtual" Storage - SAN Virtualization Appliance Years First of all thanks again for all the feedback regarding this series of posts, great that people are enjoying a bit of a history lesson, or even a reminder into your own histories! So where was I...... Continue Reading →
