Tag: FlashSystem

• June 29, 2021

  Clustering Combinations – Spectrum Virtualize Platforms

  Supported Clustering Hardware Configurations Please note, this is aimed to provide guidance and is correct at the time of publishing. Update – 21st July 2021 – as a result of this post, my friends in support thought this a worthy topic and have created an official support document that will be kept up to date. […]
• June 8, 2021

  TechTalk – Flash Performance – 29th June 2021

  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, […]
• February 9, 2021

  Introducing IBM FlashSystem 5200

  

  IBM’s most compact, high capacity & performant entry FlashSystem to date. February 9th 2021 IBM introduced the latest member of the Spectrum Virtualize based FlashSystem family, somewhat unique in the mainstream storage industry coming in at just 1U high, but with power, performance, capacity and functionality that makes this a huge box in a tiny […]
• February 4, 2021

  The NVMe Revolution

  I hope everyone is staying safe and well in these unusual times (COVID-19 year 2 if reading this in the future!). As some of you may know, one of my hobbies is writing EDM style music, having built up a synth and drum machine collection over many years. During the lockdowns and force travel restrictions […]
• January 19, 2021

  Save the date : 9th February – Revolutionize the entry-enterprise storage space.

  

  Join us on the 9th February for a special announcement webinar where we bring you details of a brand new member of the Spectrum Virtualize and FlashSystem family… It’s time to revolutionize the entry-enterprise storage space. You are challenged to deliver more with less budget. You need to optimize your IT infrastructure to drive growth […]
• June 29, 2020

  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 […]
• March 11, 2020

  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 […]
• March 10, 2020

  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 […]
• February 28, 2020

  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 […]
• February 26, 2020

  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, […]