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Making the most of async policy-based replication
[ A guest post by Chris Canto – senior software engineer for FlashSystem ] The recent releases of Storage Virtualize have… [Read More]
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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 here at Edge and we were able to fine tune and, inline with announcements, able to publish this: The PDF is available for download here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/redp5023.pdf And if you are at Edge and want to meet with IBM Redbooks we are at booth 906 !… [Read More]
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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 “invasive” but perhaps I am just getting older. Anyway, before we go totally off topic (I’ll start a new thread about people shouting into their mobile phones, or holding tablets up to take pictures causing a total eclipse some other time!), most of you will… [Read More]
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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 on… we’ve been doing it for years – we don’t need to make up new terms, or make out like its the next big thing – its been here and a reality for over ten years with SVC – why do you think we can… [Read More]
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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. Not all books are there yet but the inventory is slowly building up over time as we identify the most appropriate books. How do I know if a book is available from the iBookstore? That’s the easy part. Simply look out for the logo on… [Read More]
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Introducing Jon Tate – Mr IBM Storage Redbooks
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th May 2013 8,972 views on developerworks Hi all, I’d like to introduce Jon Tate who has been added as a co-author to my blog. Jon is known to the team here as “Mr IBM Redbooks” – and will be posting about new publications, any new residencies that are available etc, specifically related to storage and networking. Here is Jon’s bio details, and look out for his first post soon – under his developerWorks name “JonTate” Jon Tate is a Project Manager for IBM System Storage Virtualization and System Networking Solutions at the International Technical Support Organization, San… [Read More]
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IBM FlashSystems and the future
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th April 2013 9,477 views on developerworks Comment: Feb 2020 – I actually got a bit of grief when this article was posted – knuckle wrapping and all that – due to my personal comments – for example, in the black call out box in the article I am quoted as stating Flash would not be around as long as the hard-drive – in terms of dominance. Well, less than 7 years later, and we have Storage Class Memory technologies that look to move Flash (NAND) into a nearline category in the not to distant future… so I… [Read More]
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New flexible hardware SVC, CG8 Upgrades
ORIGINALLY POSTED 23rd April 2013 14,181 views on developerworks For the last few years we have often talked about ‘flexible hardware’ options for SVC. While we have offered the internal SAS HBA and SSD attachment within the nodes, and a 10Gbit iSCSI/FCoE capable upgrade, we’ve never quite made it to true flexible hardware, with respect to Fibre Channel ports, and CPU / cache memory upgrades… until now… Over the last couple of months we have release two RPQ’able hardware upgrades, specifically for the latest SVC CG8 nodes. One common request for SVC is more ports… Fibre Channel that is. In… [Read More]
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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 you define what you or the customer means exactly by true symmetric active/active disk controller? The whole “preferred” status of a vdisk is an attempt to load balance. So when you create volumes… vdisk id = 0 – preferred to node 2 vdisk id =… [Read More]
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Introducing the IBM Storwize V3700
ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th November 2012 TOP 10 Post – 62,183 views on developerworks As you may have seen, today IBM announced the next product in the Storwize family, the IBM Storwize V3700. The Stowize V3700 builds on the amazing success that the Storwize V7000 has seen in the last two years- and of course SVC has had in the market for almost 10 years now. I could use the work we’ve put in and our general business as an other excuse for why I’ve not posted much recently, but I think thats getting thin, and I figure my PPY (posts… [Read More]
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 