Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage

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  • May 6, 2020

    Why IBM FlashSystem? Back to School Webinar Series – Session 1

    Hope everyone is well, we are kicking off a series of Systems events for the AP timezones (since most TechU global session are at non AP friendly timezones! Of course, open to anyone WW if you are awake at the time 🙂 These sessions are open to IBMers, BPs and Clients, please pass on the […]

  • April 14, 2020

    abilioTalks Podcast – A chat about Flash, FCM, Insights and Cloud

    abilioTalks Podcast – A chat about Flash, FCM, Insights and Cloud

    Hope everyone is keeping well and staying safe at this difficult time for all. As the IBM Systems Technical Universities have been postponed until the second half (hopefully), we have been running the TechU Talks sessions, which Andy posted about last week and he presented the first session which you can watch via replay here. […]

  • April 6, 2020

    TechU Talks 2020

    Hi Everyone, Since the IBM Technical Universities that would normally be running in the first half of this year are not able to happen as planned – IBM is running a series of TechU talks which are in the form of weekly web casts. I’m the first presenter in the set of Storage related talks […]

  • March 25, 2020

    DRAID Expansion. The Important Details

    When I introduced the updates in Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.1 I promised a dedicated post discussing the details around the new DRAID dynamic expansion feature. Before we dive in, there are some DRAID basic terms that you need to understand. DRAID Basics Check out the DRAID – How it Works post for more details but in […]

  • March 12, 2020

    Introducing SVC – SV2 & SA2 Node Hardware

    Introducing SVC – SV2 & SA2 Node Hardware

    So to round off the week, the final thing we announced last month was a refresh to the SVC node’s themselves. SVC has been providing our clients with true heterogeneous storage virtualization in the form of an appliance for over 16 years now. Depending on how you count them, these are the 9th generation, and […]

  • March 11, 2020

    Introducing FlashSystem 5000, 7200 & 9200. FCM Gen2 & SCM

    Introducing FlashSystem 5000, 7200 & 9200. FCM Gen2 & SCM

    On February 11th/12th 2020 (depending which timezone you are in!) IBM announced that it was updating the entire modular entry, midrange and enterprise block portfolio. The family name of Storwize being replaced with the FlashSystem family. For the 5000 range, this really is a name change, since we only updated the hardware during 2019, so […]

  • March 10, 2020

    Introducing Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.1, FlashSystem 7200, 9200 and SVC Platform updates

    Introducing Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.1, FlashSystem 7200, 9200 and SVC Platform updates

    Hopefully by now you will have all seen the new updates across pretty much the whole Spectrum Virtualize Family. The new 8.3.1 software GA’d a week early on the 29th February 2020, and 8.3.1.1 is available for download. At the same time as I discussed in part 5 of my potted history partwork, the Storwize […]

  • February 28, 2020

    A Brief History of “recent” Time – Part 5

    2008-2020 The “Storwize” Years It seems fitting for my first officially new post on the new site to actually be a historical retrospective. At the same time however, it brings us right up the to recent IBM Storage annoucements made on 11th/12th February 2020. So its 2008, and for probably the previous decade the Hursley […]

  • February 27, 2020

    Welcome to the new home for “An Exchange and Discussion of Storage Virtualization” and “Musings of the Spectrum Virtualize Support Architect”

    “These aren’t the pages you are looking for”… If google brought you here from a link on the old sites, please use the local site search to find the post you were looking for… After over 12 years, and for the second time since I started blogging IBM has sunset the platform we were using […]

  • February 27, 2020

    IBM Systems TechU – Sydney October 15th-17th 2019

    IBM Systems TechU – Sydney October 15th-17th 2019

    ORIGINALLY POSTED 2nd October 2019 There is still time to register for this years A/NZ Systems Technical University. The event is running from the 15th to 17th October in Sydney, places are filling up fast so be sure to sign up today. In the last of my speaker focus posts, here is a round up of some of the global speakers covering […]

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