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 →
IBM Systems TechU – Sydney October 2019 – Spectrum Virtualize
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th August 2019 NOTE: I haven't cloned the other posts relating to the numeours events over the years, but since these posts contain bio info for some of the presenters, I figured they were worth keeping. IBM Systems - Technical University Sydney Australia - October 15th to 17th Come and join us for... Continue Reading →
Auto-negotiation with Fibre Channel speeds
ORIGINALLY POSTED 31st May 2019 I had a recent question from within IBM regarding our support for auto-negotiation of Fibre Channel speed. It seems we take this for granted, because we don't specifically mention that all our Fibre Channel HBA's across all the Virtualize family have supported auto-negotiate since our 4Gbit HBA back in 2005!... Continue Reading →
NVMe Flash-Core-Module value for all. Introducing the next gen IBM Storwize V5000 and Spectrum Virtualize 8.3.0
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd April 2019 It’s almost scary that we are already 1/4 of the way through 2019… where does the time go. I’ve been even more remiss than usual on posting… I guess you’ve come to expect that now, but I have excuses, with multiple trips in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Switzerland in the... Continue Reading →
NVMe-FC Proof of Technology Demo
ORIGINALLY POSTED 4th September 2018 5,688 views on developerworks There is a lot of talk - dare I say Hype - around NVMe, and I've found that a lot of people don't understand what it means, not only in terms of the technology, but also why is it important from a business, getting things done,... Continue Reading →
NVMe-FC in action, TechU Sydney wrap and FS9100 AP Launch – what a week!
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th August 2018 IBM Technical University - Sydney Wrapup This time last week, IBM’s Sydney Technical University was in full flow. I wanted to provide a quick summary of last week, including our ‘stand room only’ AP FlashSystem 9100 launch event and thank everyone involved, from the organising committee, through our local and... Continue Reading →
Spectrum Virtualize, FlashSystem and SCMs
ORIGINALLY POSTED 13th July 2018 7,785 views on developerworks Its been great to see all the interest over the last week on the new FlashSystem 9100 products announced on July 10th. Interesting too on the register with the battlecard information, and some of the usual ‘anonymous’ comments that seem to miss the point – particularly that we... Continue Reading →
Introducing the IBM FlashSystem 9100 – with NVMe Flash-Core-Modules (FCM)
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th July 2018 21,866 views on developerworks Today we have announced the next generation FlashSystem product built with Spectrum Virtualize capabilities at its heart. What's new and exciting about this, well it brings together the best of IBM FlashSystems, Spectrum Virtualize and adds the new dual ported (very important) NVMe Flash drives, both... Continue Reading →
Thanks for the support! 10,000,000 views
ORIGINALLY POSTED 4th July 2018 Hi all, just a quick post to say thanks for visiting, and for all the visits over the last 10 years or so! I hope the content here is helpful both in deciding on your Storage purchases, as well as making the most out of IBM Spectrum Virtualize. Yesterday we... Continue Reading →