As a lot of you know, IBM helps to run a set of world-wide user groups across many of its products. Pre-COVID I had the pleasure of meeting many of our Virtualize family world-wide, and over the last 18 months we've continued these events, all be it in a virtual form. The Nordic User Group,... 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 →
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 →
Pure dead brilliant – not quite the first I’m afraid!
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th February 2018 'Pure dead brilliant, so it is' - Urban Dictionary This week, while recovering from the crazy busy week over in Vegas for IBM Think, I was sent an email by our competitive analysis team which reminded me of why I started this blog back in 2007. In those days, there were only a few of us, Tony Pearson... Continue Reading →
All Flash Storage – Why RAID Matters
GUEST POST by Distinguished Engineer - Dr Bill Scales Today we are lucky to have the first in a series of guest posts from Dr Bill Scales. Bill is one of the lead product architects in the storage team in Hursley. Bills depth and breadth of knowledge of storage systems is second to none, which... Continue Reading →
Egg Timers, a Million Pounds and Tier1 Flash
ORIGINALLY POSTED 24th August 2016 8,902 views on developerworks Yesterday I spent an hour or so looking for something I knew was out in the blogosphere so I could pull down the reference to it, its frustrating that even when you know something is out there, and no amount of google search phrases can find... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
IBM to acquire TMS (Texas Memory Systems)
ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th August 2012 13,795 views on developerworks As you may or may not have seen, IBM has agreed to acquire Texas Memory Systems :http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/38594.wss This has many implications (all good) for SVC, Storwize V7000, and Pure Systems. Better integration with existing RamSan products, and of course integrated versions of these products moving forward. Watch... Continue Reading →
Breaking the 500,000 IOPs SPC Barrier
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd February 2012 20,233 views on developerworks Well, i guess I should first wish, any readers I still have left a Happy New Year.Not only are we now into 2012, but hey its February too, where did January go... must be some kind of temporal locality thing going on (private joke - sorry,... Continue Reading →
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 