Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
