As a lot of you know, IBM helps to run a set of world-wide user groups across many of its products. Pre-COVID I had the pleasure of meeting many of our Virtualize family world-wide, and over the last 18 months we've continued these events, all be it in a virtual form. The Nordic User Group,... Continue Reading →
Introducing IBM FlashSystem 5200
IBM's most compact, high capacity & performant entry FlashSystem to date. February 9th 2021 IBM introduced the latest member of the Spectrum Virtualize based FlashSystem family, somewhat unique in the mainstream storage industry coming in at just 1U high, but with power, performance, capacity and functionality that makes this a huge box in a tiny... Continue Reading →
The NVMe Revolution
I hope everyone is staying safe and well in these unusual times (COVID-19 year 2 if reading this in the future!). As some of you may know, one of my hobbies is writing EDM style music, having built up a synth and drum machine collection over many years. During the lockdowns and force travel restrictions... Continue Reading →
Save the date : 9th February – Revolutionize the entry-enterprise storage space.
Join us on the 9th February for a special announcement webinar where we bring you details of a brand new member of the Spectrum Virtualize and FlashSystem family... It’s time to revolutionize the entry-enterprise storage space. You are challenged to deliver more with less budget. You need to optimize your IT infrastructure to drive growth... Continue Reading →
Lets get this right, once and for all, ALUA != passive – Active/Active is not precluded by ALUA
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 →
