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 →
DRAID Expansion. The Important Details
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 →
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 →
Introducing FlashSystem 5000, 7200 & 9200. FCM Gen2 & SCM
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 →
Introducing Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.1, FlashSystem 7200, 9200 and SVC Platform updates
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 →
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 →
Welcome to the new home for “An Exchange and Discussion of Storage Virtualization” and “Musings of the Spectrum Virtualize Support Architect”
"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 →
IBM Systems TechU – Sydney October 15th-17th 2019
ORIGINALLY POSTED 2nd October 2019 There is still time to register for this years A/NZ Systems Technical University. The event is running from the 15th to 17th October in Sydney, places are filling up fast so be sure to sign up today. In the last of my speaker focus posts, here is a round up of some of the global speakers covering... Continue Reading →
IBM Systems TechU – Sydney October 2019 – Spectrum Scale
ORIGINALLY POSTED 13th September 2019 This week its the turn of our unstructured data products. At TechU in Sydney we will have Chris Maestas flying in to cover most of the Spectrum Scale topics. For those that don't know Chris, here is is bio : Christopher D. Maestas is an Executive Architect for IBM File... Continue Reading →
IBM Systems TechU – Sydney October 2019 – Spectrum Protect/Plus
ORIGINALLY POSTED 5th September 2019 Following on from last weeks post where I listed the Spectrum Virtualize sessions we will be covering at the Sydney Technical University, I thought it would be good to showcase the other international speaker, and of course the local speakers that will be attending the event. Today its the Spectrum... Continue Reading →
