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  • 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 [Read More]

    Jon Tate – Living life on the Edge – Storwize V7000 and SANSlide Redpaper
  • 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 [Read More]

    Jon Tate – Flash but not Gordon – Just an IBM redpaper
  • 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 [Read More]

    SVC, Invista, Vplex – Software!
  • 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. [Read More]

    Jon Tate – IBM Redbooks now available at an Apple iBookstore near you.
  • 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 [Read More]

    Introducing Jon Tate – Mr IBM Storage Redbooks
  • IBM FlashSystems and the future

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th April 2013 9,477 views on developerworks Comment: Feb 2020 – I actually got a bit of grief when this article was posted – knuckle wrapping and all that – due to my personal comments – for example, in the black call out box in the article I am quoted as stating Flash [Read More]

    IBM FlashSystems and the future
  • New flexible hardware SVC, CG8 Upgrades

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 23rd April 2013 14,181 views on developerworks For the last few years we have often talked about ‘flexible hardware’ options for SVC. While we have offered the internal SAS HBA and SSD attachment within the nodes, and a 10Gbit iSCSI/FCoE capable upgrade, we’ve never quite made it to true flexible hardware, with respect [Read More]

    New flexible hardware SVC, CG8 Upgrades
  • Thats just a FUD question… to be preferred or not preferred?

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st March 2013 27,043 views on developerworks One of the internal, and IBM Business Partner mailing groups I subscribe and participate in ( Hi to all on Diskcore ) recently debated : Want to know whether IBM V3700 are true symmetric active active controllers. A response was made, but also asked : Can [Read More]

    Thats just a FUD question… to be preferred or not preferred?
  • Introducing the IBM Storwize V3700

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th November 2012 TOP 10 Post – 62,183 views on developerworks As you may have seen, today IBM announced the next product in the Storwize family, the IBM Storwize V3700. The Stowize V3700 builds on the amazing success that the Storwize V7000 has seen in the last two years- and of course SVC [Read More]

    Introducing the IBM Storwize V3700