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Deployment Models for Policy-based High Availability (PBHA) – Part 3b
In Part1 we saw how partitions form the basic building blocks of PBHA, how to create and manage partitions, some considerations… [Read More]
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Making the most of async policy-based replication
[ A guest post by Chris Canto – senior software engineer for FlashSystem ] The recent releases of Storage Virtualize have continued to deliver big enhancements for replication and it can sometimes be easy to overlook some of the smaller updates. With that in mind, I thought it might be helpful to share a couple [Read More]
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IBM TechXchange 2024 – Las Vegas October 21-24
It feels like this year is more or less back to pre-COVID time, in terms of my recent travel anyway! Back in May/June we had the usual European User Group tour back in full swing with ever growing attendance at every event across Holland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and the UK. I made it [Read More]
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IBM Storage Virtualize 8.7.0 including FlashSystem grid
Just over a week ago we announced the latest version of the Virtualize software for FlashSystem and SVC. 8.7.0 brings a raft of major and minor enhancements and the instantiation of our scalable storage platform using FlashSystem grid. Whats New in 8.7.0 ? What is FlashSystem grid? A FlashSystem grid is a scalable storage platform [Read More]
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1920 ways to improve your life (by migrating to policy-based replication from Global Mirror)
[Guest post by Chris Bulmer, IBM Storage Virtualize Replication and High Availability Architect] As policy-based replication has been available for roughly 18 months now I find myself regularly discussing the advantages (major performance boosts, far simpler management and no more 1920 events!) and this inevitably leads to the question of “how do I migrate an [Read More]
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Can your storage alert you to cyber attacks in under a minute? IBM FlashCore Modules Gen4 (FCM4) can…
Today IBM has announced its fourth generation of our FlashCore Module (FCM) technology. Those of you that have been around IBM storage will know that the FCM in their current format were first introduced in 2018 and were the first truly computation storage device that managed to be packed into the industry standard 2.5″ Small [Read More]
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A leap forward in availability and simplicity: introducing policy-based high availability
Barry and Andrew have kindly given me the keys, so there’s likely to be a few more posts around replication and high availability going forward! The last few years have been a very busy time for us on our replication roadmap. Firstly we released our new offering that used polices to manage replication between systems [Read More]
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IBM TechXchange : 11-14th September 2023
There is still time to register if you haven’t yet! IBM is hosting its first post-COVID Technical Conference in Las Vegas during the week of the 11th of September 2023. Unlike previous Technical University events (pre COIVD) which only covered IBM Systems, TechXchange is across all of the IBM Technology brands, including of course Storage. [Read More]
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Bringing Cyber Resilience to Entry Storage Systems – IBM FlashSystem 5045
For several years now IBM FlashSystem have been leading the way with the ‘born on the mainframe’ IBM Safeguarded Copy (SGC) solution for primary data. Hopefully you should know all about this, but if not, have a look back here. SGC allows you to make regular immutable snapshots on the same storage as your production [Read More]
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IBM Storage for Data Resiliency Explained, including IDCD…
Where does IBM Storage Virtualize fit in the bigger picture of Data Resiliency? Earlier this week I mentioned that 8.6.0 was now available, and one of the features it includes is Inline Data Corruption Detection. A few people have asked for some more details of what this does, but first off, have a quick look [Read More]
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 