Month: March 2020

• March 25, 2020

  DRAID Expansion. The Important Details

  When I introduced the updates in Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.1 I promised a dedicated post discussing the details around the new DRAID dynamic expansion feature. Before we dive in, there are some DRAID basic terms that you need to understand. DRAID Basics Check out the DRAID – How it Works post for more details but in […]
• March 12, 2020

  Introducing SVC – SV2 & SA2 Node Hardware

  

  So to round off the week, the final thing we announced last month was a refresh to the SVC node’s themselves. SVC has been providing our clients with true heterogeneous storage virtualization in the form of an appliance for over 16 years now. Depending on how you count them, these are the 9th generation, and […]
• March 11, 2020

  Introducing FlashSystem 5000, 7200 & 9200. FCM Gen2 & SCM

  

  On February 11th/12th 2020 (depending which timezone you are in!) IBM announced that it was updating the entire modular entry, midrange and enterprise block portfolio. The family name of Storwize being replaced with the FlashSystem family. For the 5000 range, this really is a name change, since we only updated the hardware during 2019, so […]
• March 10, 2020

  Introducing Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.1, FlashSystem 7200, 9200 and SVC Platform updates

  

  Hopefully by now you will have all seen the new updates across pretty much the whole Spectrum Virtualize Family. The new 8.3.1 software GA’d a week early on the 29th February 2020, and 8.3.1.1 is available for download. At the same time as I discussed in part 5 of my potted history partwork, the Storwize […]