Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage

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  • Storage Virtualize 8.6.0 Available

    Over the last month it was great to catch up with some many customers, partners and IBMers as we hopped around Europe for the early summer User Group season. Even better was the weather, especially as its turning cold and damp here back in New Zealand! The User Groups were taking the chance to also [Read More]

  • Spectrum Virtualize – Policy Based Replication – Guest post by Chris Bulmer

    BW: Its been a while since I had a guest post and who better to complete the series of articles discussing the latest Policy Based Replication functionality the replication development lead himself, Chris Bulmer. [BW: Where I have added some commentary it is in this blue italic text.] Policy-based replication IBM SAN Volume Controller, and [Read More]

    Spectrum Virtualize – Policy Based Replication – Guest post by Chris Bulmer

  • IBM Spectrum Virtualize – Policy Based Snapshots, Immutability – aka FlashCopy 2.0

    Last month I discussed the switch of the management interfaces to start implementing new features using a Policy Based Management philosophy. That post discussed the simple Provisioning Policies that can be created, here we are going to talk about FlashCopy 2.0 – or at least a new way to manage a subset of the FlashCopy [Read More]

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize – Policy Based Snapshots, Immutability – aka FlashCopy 2.0

  • Spectrum Virtualize – Policy based management

    It’s been far too long since I posted on here. I do have a good excuse in that almost all of my “spare time” has been consumed by what started as a hobby and kind of spiraled into a boutique synthesiser brand… (for those interested see Ge0sync Synth) … anyway… I can make all the [Read More]

    Spectrum Virtualize – Policy based management

  • Would your business survive a Cyber attack? Introducing IBM Cyber Vault with the new FlashSystem 7300, FlashSystem 9500 and SVC SV3

    You are prepared. You have the monitoring. You have the protection. You feel safe. But if the worst happens and your data is held ransom after a latent ransomware trojan is triggered, how long would you take to recover? You figure its OK, you have HA and/or DR… but those are now held ransom too… [Read More]

    Would your business survive a Cyber attack? Introducing IBM Cyber Vault with the new FlashSystem 7300, FlashSystem 9500 and SVC SV3

  • Spectrum Virtualize 8.4.x – 2021 in review – 8.4.1, 8.4.2 and 8.4.3

    2021 saw the first full year of the new LTS/CD delivery mechanisms for software functionality updates within Spectrum Virtualize. With 8.4.0 initially being released this time last year, the LTS version is now classed as a recommended level and I discussed its contents, and some things to consider regarding pre-reqs, end of support etc in [Read More]

    Spectrum Virtualize 8.4.x – 2021 in review – 8.4.1, 8.4.2 and 8.4.3

  • Re-introducing Spectrum Virtualize 8.4

    Some of you may have noticed that we haven’t really posted about the new features and functions that have been introduced over the last year in Spectrum Virtualize. I figured that i the same way that we have now modified our release strategy (check out the details on LTS and CD releases) but it would [Read More]

  • IBM Storage with Smarts – Storage Digital Platform

    Earlier this year IBM introduced the FlashSystem 5200, a new form factor for FlashSystem, being only 1U in height, but with all the smarts, ease of use and performance you’d expect from a system utilising Spectrum Virtualize and FlashCore Modules (FCM). The reviews and experiences have been exceptional, and just this week IBM has launched [Read More]

  • Clustering Combinations – Spectrum Virtualize Platforms

    Supported Clustering Hardware Configurations Please note, this is aimed to provide guidance and is correct at the time of publishing. Update – 21st July 2021 – as a result of this post, my friends in support thought this a worthy topic and have created an official support document that will be kept up to date. [Read More]