Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
So to round off the week, the final thing we announced last month was a refresh to the SVC node's themselves. SVC has been providing our clients with true heterogeneous storage virtualization in the form of an appliance for over 16 years now. Depending on how you count them, these are the 9th generation, and... Continue Reading →
Introducing Differential Licensing Over the years its become clear that a TB isn’t what it used to be, for example the maximum tier of SVC license capacity back in 2003 was 32TB… so things have changed. We wanted to reflect this in the managed (mdisk) capacity licensing. Not all TB are equal… In order to... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th June 2011 13,528 views on developerworks I’ve been traveling quite a bit over the last couple of months, both business and pleasure. Large amounts of this, especially the business travel has been in the car where I’ve been enjoying the use of the USB port in the glove box to upload mp3... Continue Reading →
(A Brief History of Recent Time - Part5) ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th October 2010 17,846 views on developerworks Well as you have probably read, or heard, the Storwize V7000 is why the SVC team has been so busy over the last 18 months, and why my blogging has been sporadic at best. Hopefully the point of... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd October 2010 16,162 views on developerworks 2000-2007 The "Virtual" Storage - SAN Virtualization Appliance Years First of all thanks again for all the feedback regarding this series of posts, great that people are enjoying a bit of a history lesson, or even a reminder into your own histories! So where was I...... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 19th August 2010 11,279 views on developerworks I knew it had been a while, but I wouldn't have guessed it was 14 weeks since I last posted. Nothing much changes thought, the NetApp fan boys are being just as defensive as ever, EMC (well Mr Symm) are still spending as much time writing... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTEED 10th June 2010 12,877 views on developerworks After a couple of weeks of car hell, that resulted in the entire removal of the intake manifold, just to get to the darn crappy sensor that had packed up (and Land Rover informed me was the 3rd re-design - in any other business that would... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 30th March 2010 14,050 views on developerworks I wrote this a few weeks back - was waiting for the right time to post - and for once it seems Hu and I are coming from the same place! Its likely a lot of my regulars have heard of Yotta Yotta. To all extents... 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 →
