ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st November 2010 14,207 views on developerworks It was nice to have a day back in the office today, the last couple of weeks have gone by in somewhat of a blurr, with several offsite customer visits, several more visiting Hursley, my vLab sesson at IP expo in London, then last week in... Continue Reading →
2010-43: Storwize V7000 Hardware and Performance
ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th October 2010 17,538 views on developerworks There are two reasons that my blogging this year has been sporadic at best. One, the sheer volume of work, its become the norm at the moment for the whole team to be spending evenings and weekends working on our baby.Why have we been all so... Continue Reading →
2010-42.3: Its the little touches – IBM Storwize V7000
ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th October 2010 10,920 views on developerworks Well I'm almost recovered from the hectic day yesterday. My day started with the train from Southampton at 6:30am to get up to London in time to prep before the first session of the day. Before I get too far, thanks to all that came along... Continue Reading →
2010-42.2: Introducing the IBM Storwize V7000
(A Brief History of Recent Time - Part5) ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th October 2010 17,846 views on developerworks Well as you have probably read, or heard, the Storwize V7000 is why the SVC team has been so busy over the last 18 months, and why my blogging has been sporadic at best. Hopefully the point of... Continue Reading →
2010-42: A Brief History of “recent” Time – Part4
ORIGINALLY POSTED October 4th 2010 8,412 views on developerworks 2008-2010 plus ... ?! With all that history of ground breaking products, real innovation, first to market with a real working virtualization solution - I guess the question is... What next??? Hopefully I'll see some of you in London on Thursday for the UK Launch event...... Continue Reading →
2010-41: A Brief History of “recent” Time – Part3
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd October 2010 16,162 views on developerworks 2000-2007 The "Virtual" Storage - SAN Virtualization Appliance Years First of all thanks again for all the feedback regarding this series of posts, great that people are enjoying a bit of a history lesson, or even a reminder into your own histories! So where was I...... Continue Reading →
2010-39: A Brief History of “recent” Time – Part2
ORIGINALLY POSTED 23rd September 2010 11,998 views on developerworks The "Shark" and FC-AL Years - 1998-present Last time I briefly covered the Hursley Storage team's work on the 7133 - Serial Storage Architecture products. Thanks for all the emails about this, and I'm glad people still remember it - fondly?! Those screwdrivers - and Martin,... Continue Reading →
2010-38: A Brief History of “recent” Time – Part1
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th September 2010 17,983 views on developerworks The Serial Storage Architecture Years 1990-1998 Its been a crazier than ever year. All will become clear soon. But one of the things I wanted to discuss with you all is just what kind of history comes with the team of ~150 storage people that I... Continue Reading →
2010-34: 14 weeks
ORIGINALLY POSTED 19th August 2010 11,279 views on developerworks I knew it had been a while, but I wouldn't have guessed it was 14 weeks since I last posted. Nothing much changes thought, the NetApp fan boys are being just as defensive as ever, EMC (well Mr Symm) are still spending as much time writing... Continue Reading →
2010-24: Still alive and Verplexed
ORIGINALLY POSTEED 10th June 2010 12,877 views on developerworks After a couple of weeks of car hell, that resulted in the entire removal of the intake manifold, just to get to the darn crappy sensor that had packed up (and Land Rover informed me was the 3rd re-design - in any other business that would... Continue Reading →