Announcing Spectrum Virtualize v8.1.0

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Announcing Spectrum Virtualize v8.1.0

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On Tuesday 22nd August we announced the latest code update that will be available soon for the Spectrum Virtualize family. For the first time since 2012 we have bumped the major version number to 8. This signifies some exciting new features that begin with this release in 3Q and will be expanded... [Continue Reading]

Spectrum Virtualize - North American User Group - Sept 20th 21st

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Hi all, Some more advertising, if you are in North America and want to attend this years Spectrum Virtualize User Group be sure to register via the link on the user groups page . This year the event is back in Raleigh RTP Executive Briefing Center, and... [Continue Reading]

IBM Technical Symposium Melbourne 2017 15-17th August

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Hi all, Just a quick one to remind people in this part of the world that the annual Australian IBM Systems Technical Symposium is this year running in Melbourne at the Crowne Conference center from 15th to 17th August. We are just finalising the agenda for the Storage sessions, and we... [Continue Reading]

IBM Technical University Orlando May 22nd

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Just a reminder, and there is still time to register if you haven't already, but this years Systems Technical University is in Orlando next week. I hope to see you there and will be covering several sessions, a few on performance as usual, and some technical deep dives, as well as the NDA... [Continue Reading]

Spectrum Virtualize Hursley User Group May 8th 9th

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Hi all, Just a quick notices post to remind everyone that the next Spectrum Virtualize UK User Group sessions are happening at IBM Hursley on 8th and 9th of May. 8th May - Business Partner Day 9th May - Customer Day For more details, and registration information, see the... [Continue Reading]

Spectrum Virtualize 7.8.1 Announcement

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I completely missed the announcement a couple of weeks ago for version 7.8.1 of the Spectrum Virtualize software. Traveling too much at the end of last month and forgot to post an update on whats new. This release I am dubbing the ‘customer council’ release. Last year we started a... [Continue Reading]

Configuring RAID/DRAID Best Practice - SVC and Storwize

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Here’s another topic I often get asked about. Things used to be quite simple and I covered this for many years in my Configuring for Optimal Performance series of technical university presentations (also here on the blog - parts 1, 2, 3) - and the basics are still the same when configuring... [Continue Reading]

Quorum - how does it work? SVC and Storwize

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Spectrum Virtualize Quorum Happy New Year to all. I’ve been getting a few questions relating to quorum devices, and in particular the IP quorum and what happens when various different failure scenarios occur. I thought it was worth detailing things here. So first some background. What are... [Continue Reading]

Spectrum Virtualize 7.8.0 - Now available

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7.8.0 Spectrum Virtualize Back in November we announce the 7.8 updates for SVC, Storwize and V9000 - the products running Spectrum Virtualize software, and a new expansion enclosure offering over 1.4PB RAW capacity in just 5U rack space… Transparent Cloud Tiering TCT is IBM’s general... [Continue Reading]

Bill Scales - All Flash Storage - Why RAID Matters [Guest Post]

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Today we are lucky to have the first in a series of guest posts from Dr Bill Scales. Bill is one of the lead product architects in the storage team in Hursley. Bills depth and breadth of knowledge of storage systems is second to none, which means there is always a queue of people waiting to... [Continue Reading]

Building Agile Infrastructures - Webcast 20th October

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

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Announcing Spectrum Virtualize v8.1.0

Spectrum Virtualize - North American User Group - Sept 20th 21st

IBM Technical Symposium Melbourne 2017 15-17th August

IBM Technical University Orlando May 22nd

Spectrum Virtualize Hursley User Group May 8th 9th

Spectrum Virtualize 7.8.1 Announcement

Configuring RAID/DRAID Best Practice - SVC and Storwize

Quorum - how does it work? SVC and Storwize

Spectrum Virtualize 7.8.0 - Now available

Bill Scales - All Flash Storage - Why RAID Matters [Guest Post]

Building Agile Infrastructures - Webcast 20th October

Egg Timers, a Million Pounds and Read Intensive Flash

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

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

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