ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th November 2009 15,995 views on developerworks The kids very kindly passed on their latest 'bring-home' from school - a stinking cold! Been feeling pretty rotten since I got back from SNWE in Frankfurt a couple of weeks back - so hopefully I didn't pass it on to anyone I met there! Was... Continue Reading →
SVC 5.1 – SSD Mirroring Options – The holy grail?
ORIGINALLY POSTED 21st October 2009 10,997 views on developerworks So far I have concentrated on the hardware side of the new SVC 5.1 release, thats probably because after the work I did with IBM Almaden Research last year on Project Quicksilver, I became the architect for the sub-SVC project to add SSD support to SVC.... Continue Reading →
In depth: CF8 Hardware and SSD Support
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th October 2009 14,844 views on developerworks This is a bit of an opus I'm afraid, but I've had my hands tied for so long in what I could / couldn't say so think of this as a catch up for my last 6 months of sporadic posting! Please do try to make... Continue Reading →
New SVC 5.1 – CF8 Node with Native SSD Support
ORIGINALLY POSTED 14th October 2009 17,301 views on developerworks I've been waiting for what seems like far too long for this series of posts. The development and test teams have been working flat out for the last year to bring SVC 5.1 to market. Today IBM issued a press release detailing a little of whats... Continue Reading →
A Brief History of Areal Density
ORIGINALLY POSTED 18th September 2009 29,670 views on developerworks TOP 10 POST I find I start so many posts these days describing how busy I've been as an excuse to why my post frequency has been lower than normal. This has to have been a new record as I spotted my last post was over... Continue Reading →
The Storage Egg timer
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th August 2009 13,321 views on developerworks I, like a lot of you that take the time out of your lives to read blog ramblings, you probably have your top 3 or 4 authors that you will read no matter what they say - maybe the next 10 that you read just the... Continue Reading →
Seems like history – 2 years go by like that!
ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th August 2009 13,792 views on developerworks Seems like a lot of water, in the case of Farley and Burke - a lot of smack ups - but it feels like smack downs to me... 😉 has gone under the bridge. Looking back at my first part work, some 24 months ago, it... Continue Reading →
But when isn’t it?
ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st August 2009 11,246 views on developerworks Yet another couple of weeks go by. July is our busy month at home and with family. 4 birthdays (including my own yesterday), 1 anniversary, and of course the start of the school holidays. For those that follow me on twitter and facebook, the Millenium Falcon... Continue Reading →
Online Data Migration
ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st July 2009 17,738 views on developerworks These days I'm spending more and more of my time with customers visiting Hursley wanting to hear about our smart planet initiatives, how we can help to make their infrastructure dynamic and of course most of my involvement in this is around presenting how and where... Continue Reading →
So just what is SVC – and what does Storage Virtualization REALLY do?
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th June 2009 48,074 views on developerworks TOP 10 POST With the move to the new blog software, there is probably a bunch of you that found yourself here, not knowing what this post was going to contain - as well as my regulars that either reap the benefits of SVC every day,... Continue Reading →