Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage

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  • Re: Using Virtualization for DR

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th September 2007 (UNFORTUNATELY developerworks HAS LOST THE FIGURE IMAGES!) 12,376 views on developerworks. Chris posted an interesting solution to provide 3DC disaster recovery, yet only having local virtualization devices. I posted a couple of responses to this question, and commented that this is a complex area of I/O flow and I would [Read More]

    Re: Using Virtualization for DR

  • Storage Virtualization – Part4 – Interoperability

    ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 3rd September 2007 10,601 Views on developerworks Talk to any storage or system administrator and one of their major pain points (after data movement pains) is making A work with B and keeping C at the right firmware level so that A works with C as well as B and so on. Sometimes [Read More]

    Storage Virtualization – Part4 – Interoperability

  • Stealth Announcements – Invista v2

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st September 2007 10,690 views on developerworks I find it interesting that v2 of Invista has been so quietly ‘introduced’ – very unlike EMC. I spotted a reference to it a few months back on Mark’s blog, but couldn’t find any press or EMC website coverage. The article from CBR covers some interesting [Read More]

    Stealth Announcements – Invista v2

  • OFF TOPIC – Mini Rant – Aqua Spheres

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 30th August 2007 4,941 views on developerworks One of the few things that really does wind me up is the utter nonsense that certain cosmetics companies try to claim as having “age-purifying” or “wrinkle-decrease” abilities. I remember a few years back a classic “aqua-sphere’s” ad campaign… so your product contains water… But I [Read More]

    OFF TOPIC – Mini Rant – Aqua Spheres

  • Storage Virtualization – Part3 – Performance

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 22nd August 2007 14,786 views on developerworks Cornerstone #5 The potential to increase system performance While this topic directly corresponds with ‘Cornerstone #5’ it does also contribute #2 Simplification of storage management and #4 Increased storage utilization Pooling and Striping Most enterprise level controllers, the likes of DS8000, DMX and USP, and some [Read More]

    Storage Virtualization – Part3 – Performance

  • Over-allocation vs Virtualization

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 19th August 2007 11,147 views on developerworks I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion around the topic of Thin Provisioning vs Storage Virtualization as we know it today. While its true that when compared with other uses of Virtualization, todays storage devices don’t pretend to have more space than there is – unless [Read More]

    Over-allocation vs Virtualization

  • Kids these days

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 18th August 2007 8,309 views on developerworks Our eldest son (just turned 5) has been on school holidays for the last few weeks – driving my wife round the twist and winding his little sister up a treat at the same time. Today was my last day in the office for a week [Read More]

    Kids these days

  • All too easy to use 8Gbits

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th August 2007 7,479 views on developerworks While doing my late night catch up on whats being said out there, I had meant to post on Chris Evans’ previous topic about 8Gb Fibre Channel. His latest post reminding me to explore this a bit further. In an answer to the question about why [Read More]

    All too easy to use 8Gbits

  • Getting new stuff out the door

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th August 2007 9654 Views on developerworks Over at ‘zilla central Mark is discussing the many millions of dollars devoted to research and development products, and in particular how few of them actually make it out into the field as fully fledged products. Back in the late 90’s IBM’s Research lab in Almaden [Read More]

    Getting new stuff out the door