Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage

Previous Posts

  • TechTalk – Flash Performance – 29th June 2021

    As a lot of you know, IBM helps to run a set of world-wide user groups across many of its products. Pre-COVID I had the pleasure of meeting many of our Virtualize family world-wide, and over the last 18 months we’ve continued these events, all be it in a virtual form. The Nordic User Group, [Read More]

  • What code level should I use? Introducing Continuous Development for Spectrum Virtualize

    We often get asked what is the recommended code level that a client should use. While this isn’t as difficult a question as anything performance related, I’m afraid the answer still often starts with “it depends” ! V.R.M.F – Version Release Maintenance Fix First off its worth ensuring you understand the code numbering. Everything Spectrum [Read More]

  • Introducing IBM FlashSystem 5200

    IBM’s most compact, high capacity & performant entry FlashSystem to date. February 9th 2021 IBM introduced the latest member of the Spectrum Virtualize based FlashSystem family, somewhat unique in the mainstream storage industry coming in at just 1U high, but with power, performance, capacity and functionality that makes this a huge box in a tiny [Read More]

    Introducing IBM FlashSystem 5200

  • The NVMe Revolution

    I hope everyone is staying safe and well in these unusual times (COVID-19 year 2 if reading this in the future!). As some of you may know, one of my hobbies is writing EDM style music, having built up a synth and drum machine collection over many years. During the lockdowns and force travel restrictions [Read More]

  • Save the date : 9th February – Revolutionize the entry-enterprise storage space.

    Join us on the 9th February for a special announcement webinar where we bring you details of a brand new member of the Spectrum Virtualize and FlashSystem family… It’s time to revolutionize the entry-enterprise storage space. You are challenged to deliver more with less budget. You need to optimize your IT infrastructure to drive growth [Read More]

    Save the date : 9th February – Revolutionize the entry-enterprise storage space.

  • Lets get this right, once and for all, ALUA != passive – Active/Active is not precluded by ALUA

    First off, I wrote about this seven years ago… but it seems the usual suspects and some newcomers are back on the FUD spreading band-wagon trying to say that ALUA must mean active/passive … it doesn’t! Secondly lets get the main fact on the table straight away : Spectrum Virtualize, hence SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem [Read More]

  • Virtual TechU 2020 – Follow up Questions

    Hi Everyone, The Virtual TechU is nearly here – and once again if you watch any of my sessions and want to ask follow up questions, please feel free to add a comment to this post so I can get back to you. My main session is about how IBM has been enhancing the support [Read More]

  • Why doesn’t SVC support/need backend NVMe-FC connections?

    This question has come up a few times in recent conversations, and was asked at the recent German virtual Storage Strategy Days event. Evelyn Perez covered this in the Q&A session, but I thought it was worthy of a post to help explain. The question comes in various guises, either “When will you support”, “Does [Read More]

  • Tips and tricks using the Spectrum Virtualize REST API

    Hi all, I’ve been getting some questions recently about using the Spectrum Virtualize REST API, and I noticed that the documentation is missing some useful information. So I thought I’d put together some tips based on what I have been able to find out so far. If you have questions or your own tips – [Read More]