Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage

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  • Storage Virtualization – Part 2

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 19th August 2007 11,419 Views on developerworks Cornerstone #1 – Online data migration It’s always nice to influence peoples lives in a positive way. Thoseof you reading this have no doubt had the fun of being ‘on call’ foryour respective company. That frantic storage call at 3am on a Sundaymorning when things haven’t [Read More]

    Storage Virtualization – Part 2

  • Innovation, Invention and Intellectual Property

    ORIGINALLY POSTED August 12th 2007 6,472 Views on developerworks I’ve seen a few comments in blogsphere relating to my ‘Master Inventor’ status and figured it was worth clarifying that this is an internal IBM accolade relating to services rendered in the area of innovation, invention and Intellectual Property (IP). Although in the last few years [Read More]

    Innovation, Invention and Intellectual Property

  • So just what do I mean by Storage Virtualization

    ORIGINALLY POSTED August 10th 2007 13,146 views on developerworks Less than one week into my blogging career, why not open a huge can of worms and let the ‘fishermen’ fight over the big fat juicy ones… I changed the title of this post several times before settling on the phrase “what do I mean” – [Read More]

    So just what do I mean by Storage Virtualization

  • SVC Questions and Answers 2007

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th August 2007 12,805 views on developerworks John and the OSSG have been discussing various aspects of SVC and Virtual SANs and I thought it was worth answering some of these questions in depth as well as clarifying some of OSSG’s answers. “It’s essentially a Linux server cluster” While this statement is kind [Read More]

    SVC Questions and Answers 2007

  • SATA Performance

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 4th August 2007 15,247 views on developerworks While googling I spotted an interesting topic from Chris, discussing the application of SATA drives in the enterprise. Quite rightly for years most vendors have been telling their customers that SATA is no replacement for SCSI or Fibre-Channel enterprise class disks. I don’t know enough about [Read More]

    SATA Performance

  • A place to call my own

    ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 4th August 2007 10,328 views on developerworks Welcome. One of the good things to come out of the recent banter started by Chuck that dragged in Tony and Barry Burke, regarding the ‘relevance of SPC’ and storage benchmarking in general was a comment from BarryB regarding me having my own blog… So here [Read More]

    A place to call my own

  • Our New SuperBlog URL

    Hi all, welcome to the new site for our IBM Storage Blog. On 1st January 2020 IBM is sunsetting the old developerworks blog portal, and as such both Andrew and I have decided to move our content to wordpress. This is the new home of both : An Exchange and Discussion of StorageVirtualization – Barry [Read More]