Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
The combined blog works of : An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization AND Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect
ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st March 2013 27,043 views on developerworks One of the internal, and IBM Business Partner mailing groups I subscribe and participate in ( Hi to all on Diskcore ) recently debated : Want to know whether IBM V3700 are true symmetric active active controllers. A response was made, but also asked : Can... Continue Reading →
Hi all, if you have been re-directed here from the old developerworks blog site, you will need to search here again for the topic you wanted as they could only setup a re-direct to the home page for any of our old content. Update as of 8th January 2020 I'm still cloning the old content... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 18th February 2012 9,587 views on developerworks A couple of weeks back I got together with Nigel and Rick over at Infosmack, spending some time discussing what got me into computing, how I ended up in storage and what its like to work in IBM.I have to admit that I did go and... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 28th February 2010 14,778 views on developerworks There has been a lot of twitter banter, and blog posts about Tiering. Netapp claiming you don't need to tier, EMC and IBM saying tiering is important and 3Par Farley going so far as to say that Netapp can't do tiering easily, hence their response, and... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 11th January 2010 9,744 views on developerworks A lot of you may have seen the NASA satellite photo of the UK last week, certainly you can't deny that the snow has hit pretty much the whole country, the contrast compared to a normal satellite image is quite amazing. Images courtesy of NEODAAS/University of... Continue Reading →
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 →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th October 2007 11,690 views on developerworks The SPC contacted SUN regarding violations of the SPC 'fair-use' terms. To that end, John and Valdis have retracted both the newsletter comments and blog posts that claimed 'faster than SVC' therefore the links in this post no longer show their original content. I have left... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 30th August 2007 4,941 views on developerworks One of the few things that really does wind me up is the utter nonsense that certain cosmetics companies try to claim as having "age-purifying" or "wrinkle-decrease" abilities. I remember a few years back a classic "aqua-sphere's" ad campaign... so your product contains water... But I... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 19th August 2007 11,419 Views on developerworks Cornerstone #1 - Online data migration It's always nice to influence peoples lives in a positive way. Thoseof you reading this have no doubt had the fun of being 'on call' foryour respective company. That frantic storage call at 3am on a Sundaymorning when things haven't... Continue Reading →
