Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems & Technology Group based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarly works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 virtual disk systems. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 16 years at IBM he has worked on the successful Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and the IBM DS8000 range. Barry joined the SVC development team soon after its inception and has held many positions before taking on his current role as performance architect. Outside of work, Barry enjoys playing golf and all things to do with Rotary Engines. All posts on this blog are (c) Copyright International Business Machines 2012 - reproduction without prior approval is prohibited.
IBM introduced smarter storage for midrange storage when we brought you the Stowize V7000, delivering enterprise level features, functions and availability to our midrange storage products. Please join us on November 6th at 10:45am US EST for a virtual briefing covering IBM's midrange storage... [Continue Reading]
Configuring IBM Storwize V7000 and SVC for Optimal Performance Part 2
Thanks to everyone who responded to my Part 1 post, I'm amazed at how many people must read what I have to say! Based on the number of you that have either spoken to me in person, or emailed. I'm glad to be of some use
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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... [Continue Reading]
On Friday we will release SVC software version 6.4 - it used to be simple, I could just reference SVC, but of course the same software package can be installed on V7000 systems. At present V7000 Unified systems remain at 6.3 features and functions.
You've probably seen the news in the press,... [Continue Reading]
One of the key benefits of the Storwize V7000 product is its built in Virtiualization capabilites. Or as some vendors like to call it Federation?
Its been almost 9 years since we first released SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and in that time, its been through 6 hardware iterations, and 16 major... [Continue Reading]
Hi all, lots of posts coming I promise, lets start with the most pressing, the next UK SVC/V7000 user group meeting. Open of course to end users from across the globe : Where and when : 11th July 2012 at IBM Hursley Park, Winchester Abstract : During the day you will be able to informally... [Continue Reading]
I'm busy crafting part 2 of my Configuring for Optimal Performance series, meanwhile check out part two of my interview with Hal Jennings hosting IBM's blog talk radio channel , click on the image below :
... a mid-term interrupt... The storage system behind IBM's PureFlex, PureSystems recent announcement, is of course the IBM Storwize V7000 controller... Check out more details at http://www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/us/en/index.html#tab:overview/subtab:default (Hence all my expert video posts over... [Continue Reading]
Configuring IBM Storwize V7000 and SVC for Optimal Performance Part 1
I've been involved in a quite a few pre-sales, proof of concept and after-sales accounts where people have setup their V7000 and then wondered about the performance they are achieving, is it optimal, can they do... [Continue Reading]
Hi all, Yet again, been a few weeks since i last posted, but we've been busy, and all will become clear soon. Meanwhile, in-case you didn't know some of the benefits SVC, V7000 and inband virtualization can provide, click on the image below to have a listen, or download the first part my chat with... [Continue Reading]
just a quick one... In every day life, we have appliances, or white goods, simple and easy to use, they do the job we need of them... In IT... most things are custom... not any more Please do take the time to sign up to the April 11th webcast - it may not be going to crash live blogging, but... [Continue Reading]
A couple of weeks back I got together with Nigel and Rick over at Infosmack , spending some time discussing what got me into computing, how I ended up in storage and what its like to work in IBM. I have to admit that I did go and get my old BBC Model B out the attic and have a night or too messing... [Continue Reading]
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