Christian Henke, Program Director, EMEA Storage Competence Center IBM Systems Serge Monney, European Storage Competence Center, Member of IBM Technical Expert Council / Academy of Technology #AOT   The Storageneer team could interview Christian Henke Program Director, EMEA Storage Competence Center to collect his impression about THINK 2018 .   Serge: Christian, this interview is intended to get feedback on your personal impression on the IBM THINK2018 Conference that took place from March 19 till March 22 in Las Vegas. To start with could you... [More]

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We here at the ESCC - the EMEA Storage Competence Center - provide advanced storage-related presales and postsales support as well as lab services to clients and IBM sales organisations in Europe, Middle-East and Africa. The ESCC is headquartered in Kelsterbach, Germany and has members all over EMEA dedicated to the success of your IBM Storage projects and operations.   Since cloud computing began to shift the IT world around 10 years ago, the ESCC provided storage skills to numerous engagements at the pivotal point between traditional... [More]

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You have an IBM XIV or are interested in obtaining the tuning-hassle-free enterprise grid-scale storage system? Then this might be your last chance to register for this year's IBM XIV User Group Meeting in Mainz, Germany. This technical event is presented by the IBM EMEA Storage Competence Center, so expect the latest info, technical insights and the possibility to connect with your peers in the storage area as well as IBM's XIV experts and developers. Seize the opportunity to let IBM development know your thoughts about upcoming... [More]

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True flash architecture – that means being designed for the purpose of ultra-high performance from scratch, and not being limited by a Device Adapter, or FC-AL shortcomings. If you look at the specs of typical SSDs of today, each single drive could do tens of thousands of IOps, but when it comes to creating a RAID across a small pack of these, then we see the real results. Traditional architectures often also call themselves “flash”, but in fact were just using SSDs and kept putting them behind the same Device Adapters that... [More]

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    Several times in a row, Mainz once again had been selected to become the core ITSO Redbooks site for the updates of the main DS8000 Redbooks publications. In Q4/2012, we had hosted the Redbooks for the first generation of DS8870. In Q2/2013, updates on the Easy Tier Redpapers were done. along with the Copy Services books. Now October and November 2013, the updates dealt with the second generation of DS8870 (sixth generation of DS8000), which has been announced 19 November 2013 . In detail, we... [More]

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