Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
Its always amusing to be pinged by several people asking for comment on the same topic. This time it seems that Pure are trying to use their lack of function (there are several) and sell it as an advantage, while attacking the competition that do have it. I know reverse psychology worked on my kids... Continue Reading →
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.... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
"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... Continue Reading →
