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 →
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 →
2010-09: Tiering and PAM. Just a slow expensive DDR?
ORIGINALLY POSTED 28th February 2010 14,778 views on developerworks There has been a lot of twitter banter, and blog posts about Tiering. Netapp claiming you don't need to tier, EMC and IBM saying tiering is important and 3Par Farley going so far as to say that Netapp can't do tiering easily, hence their response, and... Continue Reading →
2010-05: New IBM World Record SPC-1 Result
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd February 2010 12,777 views on developerworks You may have already seen that SVC has yet again set a new world record benchmark when it comes to the Storage Performance Council's SPC-1 benchmark. The initial planning called for a full eight node test - as we normally do, and the manufacturing requests were... Continue Reading →
2010-03: Encouraging SSD Adoption
ORIGINALLY POSTED January 24th 2010 10,022 views on developerworks I've just been through some of our detailed results for 4Q, given that we only announced availability of the new CF8 hardware back in November and exceeded expectations with their adoption. Over the quarter Tivoli Storage Software, which SVC comes under, saw double digit growth. The... Continue Reading →
2010-02.2: Benchmarketing
ORIGINALLY POSTED 14th January 2010 9,231 views on developerworks Two posts in one week. Doing well. I set one of my resolutions this year to post at least once a week – hence my new numbering scheme. Maybe I’ll use the fact that 2010-2.2 and further double posts count for the odd week I may... Continue Reading →
2010-01: Having the right equipment
ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th January 2010 9,511 views on developerworks Happy New Year to all. As you may know, or have seen the UK is currently under the grip of winter. A few inches of snow and the country comes to a stand-still. Maybe I'm getting old an cynical (some may say no maybe about it!)... Continue Reading →
SVC 5.1 GA – Zero Detection and Cache Tweaking
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th November 2009 15,995 views on developerworks The kids very kindly passed on their latest 'bring-home' from school - a stinking cold! Been feeling pretty rotten since I got back from SNWE in Frankfurt a couple of weeks back - so hopefully I didn't pass it on to anyone I met there! Was... Continue Reading →
SVC 5.1 – SSD Mirroring Options – The holy grail?
ORIGINALLY POSTED 21st October 2009 10,997 views on developerworks So far I have concentrated on the hardware side of the new SVC 5.1 release, thats probably because after the work I did with IBM Almaden Research last year on Project Quicksilver, I became the architect for the sub-SVC project to add SSD support to SVC.... Continue Reading →
In depth: CF8 Hardware and SSD Support
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th October 2009 14,844 views on developerworks This is a bit of an opus I'm afraid, but I've had my hands tied for so long in what I could / couldn't say so think of this as a catch up for my last 6 months of sporadic posting! Please do try to make... Continue Reading →
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 