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Barry Whyte Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems Group. Now based in Auckland New Zealand, Barry is working for the IBM ATS team covering Storage Virtualization for the AP region. Previously Barry was based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarly works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize family of virtual disk systems. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 20 years at IBM he has also 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 long running role as performance architect. In 2015 Barry moved to New Zealand, but maintains a part-time working role for the Hursley team working as a performance consultant. 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 2007-2016 - reproduction without prior approval is prohibited.
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    Building Agile Infrastructures - Webcast 20th October

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (3638)
    IBM Software Defined solutions take agility to the next level – the ability to easily move data and workloads to and from public clouds.   "Today’s businesses are driven by data and the infrastructure has to provide the agility needed to quickly address new requirements....   [Continue Reading]

    Egg Timers, a Million Pounds and Read Intensive Flash

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (7) | Visits (5467)
    Yesterday I spent an hour or so looking for something I knew was out in the blogosphere so I could pull down the reference to it, its frustrating that even when you know something is out there, and no amount of google search phrases can find it for you. But what I did find was a couple of my old...   [Continue Reading]

    Next Gen V7000 and SVC - Spectrum Virtualize 7.7.1 - And All Flash

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (2) | Visits (8396)
    Just to make life as difficult as possible for the development and test teams, and not content with refreshing the lower end Storwize V5000 products earlier this year, today IBM is announcing a refresh to the Storwize V7000, FlashSystem V9000 and SVC platforms, some new all-flash variants of...   [Continue Reading]

    CIO Roundtable - Big Data, Analytics and the Ethics of Data

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (4638)
    A few weeks back myself and Lloyd Vickery, from the IBM NZ Systems team, attended an IDG run CIO roundtable event. The insights from those attending give a great view into the concerns and needs of CIO's today - when it comes to data, getting useful information from the data, and the ethics...   [Continue Reading]

    You probably have some more license than you thought... Introducing Differential Licensing

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (8692)
    New “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...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize Update 7.7.0 Part 3

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (6) | Visits (7509)
    Last week I covered some of the main updates in the 7.7.0 release of Spectrum Virtualize, this week I am in IBM RTP in North Carolina and can fill you in on yet more! New Flash and Drive Options   Lower Cost Flash Drives Just as we have had different price and performance point spinning HDD...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize Update 7.7.0 Part 2

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (2) | Visits (7602)
    Last week while in Sweden and Denmark I posted about the new 7.7.0 Spectrum Virtualize software that was announced while I was there. Back home in New Zealand now, and got some time to fill you in on the rest of the features this new release brings to SVC, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000 and VersaStack....   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize Update 7.7.0

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (9273)
    Introducing Spectrum Virtualize Version 7.7.0 Software This week I have been travelling in the Nordics. Despite now living in New Zealand, I can’t escape from the great User Group events that the Swedish team have been running for many years now, and its great to actually visit Stockholm in...   [Continue Reading]

    SVC XML Statistics Definitions - 7.6.0

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (5620)
    Hi all, I know over the years I've had hundreds of enquiries regarding the XML statistics, what they contains and how they can be decoded. Some of you have written your own parsers and need to know when new things have been added or items changed. Google isn't much help as it finds, the old...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize 7.6.0 - DRAID, Encryption and more

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (5) | Visits (21968)
    Its that time again, another six months since our last software update and we bring you version 7.6 of the Spectrum Virtualize software. Applicable to all SVC and Storwize systems currently supported out there, but not the end of life for support of 8G4 and 8A4 systems in the RFA details issued last...   [Continue Reading]

    UK User Groups - October 2015 (Next Week!)

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (3917)
    Hi all,   Another quick post, before I start my long trek back to the UK...   The next SVC and Storwize User Groups in the UK will be held next week in IBM Hursley, still time to register and come along. Hope to see you there :   Monday 12th October, IBM Hursley House (Business...   [Continue Reading]

    NA User Group - September 2015

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (4128)
    A very quick post, the North American SVC and Storwize User Groups are being held on 16th and 17th September in Austin this year.   See Andy's post for more details... We will both be there, hope to see you too!   Told you, very quick one!

    Ever wondered what happens at the User Groups...

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (4548)
    I think its true to say that the SVC and Storwize User Groups that IBM has helped to setup and run has created a real community of users and partners around the globe. There are very active groups in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden and Finland and of course the USA. (Sorry if I missed some)...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize 7.5.0 - HyperSwap - grep and more!

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (3) | Visits (12348)
    Over two weeks ago, we released v7.5.0 of the recently re-branded 'Spectrum Virtualize' software, that software that we all know as the code running in both SVC and Storwize products. The major new feature in 7.5.0 is HyperSwap - which you can think of as a new and improved Stretched Cluster...   [Continue Reading]

    A new blog worth reading - Mr Martin

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (5500)
    Hi all,   A quick update to let you know of a new blog here on developerworks that should be worth adding to you RSS feeds/reader. Andrew Martin is one of my colleagues from the Hursley development team and currently works as the Support Architect for SVC/Storwize products and everything...   [Continue Reading]
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