Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 14th October 2009 17,301 views on developerworks I've been waiting for what seems like far too long for this series of posts. The development and test teams have been working flat out for the last year to bring SVC 5.1 to market. Today IBM issued a press release detailing a little of whats... Continue Reading →
