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Introducing the FlashSystem C200
Capacity optimized Flash for lower performance use cases Over the last few years we’ve seen the price of NAND based Flash… [Read More]
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Introducing the Next Generation Storwize V7000(Gen2) and SVC(DH8) Hardware
ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th May 2014 46,980 views on developerworks I guess a few folks will comment that I’m raising my head again at announcement time, and true, but thats part of the problem on working on new and exciting stuff, I can’t talk about it until days like today where we have announced two major [Read More]
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Jon Tate – Native IP Replication on the Storwize/SVC Family
ORIGINALLY POSTED 14th April 2014 Starting with IBM Storwize Family Software V7.2, including IBM SAN Volume Controller, we introduced native replication over IP networks. As this IBM Redpaper describes, you will see that it is easy to configure in an existing IP infrastructure. This is a lower-cost alternative to the Fibre Channel-based and FCoE-based replication, and [Read More]
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Vdisks, Mdisks, Extents and Grains – Scale out for sure!
ORIGINALLY POSTED 5th February 2014 15,619 views on developerworks I think I missed January, it certainly seems like February has snuck up on us – maybe its because every day here in the UK is merging into one… since us Brits love to talk about the weather… its been kinda boring, rain rain, oh look [Read More]
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Extreme Blogging
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th November 2013 37,106 views on developerworks I see that EMC have finally pushed yet another technology family on its customers. Extreme I/O arrays. So now you have to decide which one of these things do I want. OK, let me buy an all flash array, so how will that fit with my [Read More]
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Introducing the IBM Storwize V5000 and 7.2.0 Software
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th October 2013 36,466 views on developerworks Some of you may have spotted we release another Storwize Family member back in July, but in limited geographies. TodayIBM announced world-wide availability of the IBM Storwize V5000. As the name suggests, this product sits firmly between the Storwize V3000 and Storwize V7000 ranges, in terms [Read More]
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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 [Read More]
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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 [Read More]
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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 [Read More]
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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, [Read More]
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 