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Last Minute Chance: IBM XIV User Group Meeting

seb_ Visits (9066)

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 in IBM DS8870 – 250,000 IOps @ 9 TB / 1U

Kimmel Visits (14188)

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]

Tags: escc ds8870 mainz hpfe high-performance flash all-flash mainframe ds8000 r7.3

DS8000 6th Generation - DS8870 R7.2 Redbooks Appearing Soon

Kimmel Visits (11267)

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]

Tags: all-flash enterprise disk redpaper ds8000 escc ds8870 r7.2 ats mainz redbooks

Fifth SVC & Storwize User Day 2013 in Mainz

ChristianSchroeder@IBMDE Visits (9368)

It's like big family which gathers for an annual reunion, and by saying big, I mean really big. More than 250 customers, business partners and IBMers gathered for the fifth "SVC & Storwize User Day" in Mainz, Germany with attendees from all over Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Speakers from those countries but also from Israel, USA and UK gave insights on history and future of the SVC & Storwize product family. Several customers from small to big business presented their experiences of implementing their storage... [More]

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Last Minute Chance: IBM XIV User Group Meeting

True Flash Architecture in IBM DS8870 – 250,000 IOps @ 9 TB / 1U

DS8000 6th Generation - DS8870 R7.2 Redbooks Appearing Soon

Fifth SVC & Storwize User Day 2013 in Mainz