First off, I wrote about this seven years ago... but it seems the usual suspects and some newcomers are back on the FUD spreading band-wagon trying to say that ALUA must mean active/passive ... it doesn't! Secondly lets get the main fact on the table straight away : Spectrum Virtualize, hence SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem... Continue Reading →
Virtual TechU 2020 – Follow up Questions
Hi Everyone, The Virtual TechU is nearly here - and once again if you watch any of my sessions and want to ask follow up questions, please feel free to add a comment to this post so I can get back to you. My main session is about how IBM has been enhancing the support... Continue Reading →
Just one more thing… B2S #9 – HyperSwap – DR, HA, technical dive. 22nd July
By popular request we have added one more session to our Back to School series. Over the last two months we have covered everything from IBM's unique advantages with FCMs, through saving you money and footprint with IBM Power Systems, managing exabytes of data with ease to simply backing up data. The sessions are all... Continue Reading →
The Ongoing Need for Tiering
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 →
Why IBM FlashSystem? Back to School Webinar Series – Session 1
Hope everyone is well, we are kicking off a series of Systems events for the AP timezones (since most TechU global session are at non AP friendly timezones! Of course, open to anyone WW if you are awake at the time 🙂 These sessions are open to IBMers, BPs and Clients, please pass on the... Continue Reading →
Introducing SVC – SV2 & SA2 Node Hardware
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 →
A Brief History of “recent” Time – Part 5
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 →
Thats just a FUD question… to be preferred or not preferred?
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 →
Cloning in progress…
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 →
Chilling with Infosmack
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 →
