Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
The combined blog works of : An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization AND Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect
ORIGINALLY POSTED 5th October 2013 30,678 Views on developerworks I know, I promised this some months ago, and I've been enjoying my spare time too much, and not blogging enough! So rather than keep you all waiting even more, here is a PDF of the presentation I gave at IBM Edge 2013 in Vegas. Hopefully... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 16th September 2013 23,149 views on developerworks Recently we published an IBM Redbooks Solution Guide on Implementing IBM Easy Tier with IBM Real-time Compression. IBM® Easy Tier® is a performance function that automatically and non-disruptively migrates frequently accessed data from magnetic media to solid-state drives (SSDs). In that way, the most frequently accessed... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th September 2013 18,915 views on developerworks “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope. Well we are mixing up poetry and Star Wars here today (or tomorrow, if it is already tomorrow where you are), and finish it off with a cryptic message. Anyway, let's cut to the chase here: a... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th June 2013 26,816 views on developerworks Just over a week or so ago we completed the ITSO Redbook residency to create a book based on the SAN Volume Controller and the IBM FlashSystem 820. Now, normally we like to get these things out very quickly and the team, Danny Bryant, Christian Burns,... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 12th June 2013 25,987 views on developerworks A quick update from IBM Edge2013 at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, and we are very pleased to have launched, announced, published as a draft paper the results of work that we have been doing with a company called Bridgeworks, and their SANSlide product. They are... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd June 2013 26,956 views on developerworks It is hard to look anywhere these days without seeing Flash being used. I think the word that marketing like to use, unless it has fallen out of favour is "pervasive". Mind you in the hands of some people it is definitely moving from "pervasive" to... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th May 2013 11,584 views on developerworks Just a quick one - while having a scan through IBM's new(ish) ability to review products on its main website, I found this : http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/reviews.html It did make me chukkle... its cetainly no Invista either - and all this talk of "software defined storage" - come... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th May 2013 26,757 views on developerworks. We are delighted to announce an exciting addition to the distribution channel of IBM Redbooks – now available at the Apple iBookstore is the ability to download, for free, (I probably should add some disclaimer about network charges may apply so this is it!) selected books.... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th May 2013 8,972 views on developerworks Hi all, I'd like to introduce Jon Tate who has been added as a co-author to my blog. Jon is known to the team here as "Mr IBM Redbooks" - and will be posting about new publications, any new residencies that are available etc, specifically related... Continue Reading →
