This week, SHARE conference is being held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. I covered this conference for 10 years earlier in my career. Now, my colleague Curtis Neal covers these on a regular basis, and is giving the following presentations this week:

IBM Virtual Tape Products: DILIGENT ProtecTIER and TS7700 Update

Wednesday (1:30-2:30pm), Curtis will present IBM's premier virtual tape libraries. The TS7650G ProtecTIER Data Deduplication solution supports distributed systems like Windows, UNIX and Windows. The TS7700 supports the IBM System z mainframe.

SAN Volume Controller Update

Thursday (8:00-9:00am), Curtis will cover the latest features of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). SVC has features like thin provisioning, vDisk mirroring, and cascaded FlashCopy support.

IBM System Storage DS5000 Update

Friday (8:00-9:00am), Curtis will cover the DS5100 and DS5300, and probably the new DS5020 model. These are midrange disk systems that provide excellent performance for distributed systems, full disk encryption, and intermix of FC and SATA drives.

Unlike other conferences where people just go once and are never seen again, SHARE brings back the same people back year after year, so that you can maintain relationships across organizations, and can carry on forward-looking strategic discussions.

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