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 →
Why doesn’t SVC support/need backend NVMe-FC connections?
This question has come up a few times in recent conversations, and was asked at the recent German virtual Storage Strategy Days event. Evelyn Perez covered this in the Q&A session, but I thought it was worthy of a post to help explain. The question comes in various guises, either "When will you support", "Does... Continue Reading →
Tips and tricks using the Spectrum Virtualize REST API
Hi all, I've been getting some questions recently about using the Spectrum Virtualize REST API, and I noticed that the documentation is missing some useful information. So I thought I'd put together some tips based on what I have been able to find out so far. If you have questions or your own tips -... Continue Reading →
Hybrid Value – find out more at IBM’s Virtual TechU – October 26th-29th
No, I'm not talking about part-time electric vehicles, but I struggled to use the Cloud word in the title.... I find it's often overused and seen as the answer to world peace in IT these days. However, it has to be said that I saw first hand the value of a hybrid cloud environment as... 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 →
abilioTalks Podcast – A chat about Flash, FCM, Insights and Cloud
Hope everyone is keeping well and staying safe at this difficult time for all. As the IBM Systems Technical Universities have been postponed until the second half (hopefully), we have been running the TechU Talks sessions, which Andy posted about last week and he presented the first session which you can watch via replay here.... Continue Reading →
TechU Talks 2020
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 →
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 