Category: 2013
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Extreme Blogging
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th November 2013 37,106 views on developerworks I see that EMC have finally pushed yet another technology family on its customers. Extreme I/O arrays. So now you have to decide which one of these things do I want. OK, let me buy an all flash array, so how will that fit with my…
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Introducing the IBM Storwize V5000 and 7.2.0 Software
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th October 2013 36,466 views on developerworks Some of you may have spotted we release another Storwize Family member back in July, but in limited geographies. TodayIBM announced world-wide availability of the IBM Storwize V5000. As the name suggests, this product sits firmly between the Storwize V3000 and Storwize V7000 ranges, in terms…
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Configuring IBM Storwize and SVC for Optimal Performance – Parts 3 and 4
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…
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Jon Tate – IBM EasyTier with IBM Realtime Compression
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…
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Jon Tate – Dispute it we must…
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…
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Jon Tate – Flash but not Harry – just an IBM Redbook – and a warning about tree roots
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,…
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Jon Tate – Living life on the Edge – Storwize V7000 and SANSlide Redpaper
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…
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Jon Tate – Flash but not Gordon – Just an IBM redpaper
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…
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SVC, Invista, Vplex – Software!
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…
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Jon Tate – IBM Redbooks now available at an Apple iBookstore near you.
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.…
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 