The kids very kindly passed on their latest 'bring-home' from school - a stinking cold! Been feeling pretty rotten since I got back from SNWE in Frankfurt a couple of weeks back - so hopefully I didn't pass it on to anyone I met there! Was a great couple of days, thanks to everyone that came...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  svc storage cache virtualization ssd space+efficient

So far I have concentrated on the hardware side of the new SVC 5.1 release, thats probably because after the work I did with IBM Almaden Research last year on Project Quicksilver, I became the architect for the sub-SVC project to add SSD support to SVC. The tecnology demo set the scene and...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  storage mirroring ssd virtualization enterprise svc

My posts from last week have been generating a huge amount of interest, with customers both existing an prospective seeing that what we have done with SVC 5.1 and our intergrated SSD support is much more of a game changer than EMC's "bolt them into the array" approach. While IBM has the same...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  enterprise storage svc ds8000 ssd

This is a bit of an opus I'm afraid, but I've had my hands tied for so long in what I could / couldn't say so think of this as a catch up for my last 6 months of sporadic posting! Please do try to make it to the end, I'm covering a lot here! In my last post I covered whats coming with SVC 5.1 at a...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  virtualization svc ssd cf8 storage

I've been waiting for what seems like far too long for this series of posts. The development and test teams have been working flat out for the last year to bring SVC 5.1 to market. Today IBM issued a press release detailing a little of whats coming next month with SVC release 5 software, the new...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  svc ssd storage virtualization

IBM System Storage Technical User Group Webinar IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Implementation Best Practices        Join us for a Webinar on October 14     Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/988779121     You are invited to attend this upcoming...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  virtualization webinar storage svc

I'm sure more than a few of you will know what I mean when I say I've been in "PowerPoint Hell" recently... With various internal executive visits, updates on where we are, where we are going and technical discussion points, its always amusing how much time a decent "slide" takes...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  expo svc ibm storage snw virtualization

I find I start so many posts these days describing how busy I've been as an excuse to why my post frequency has been lower than normal. This has to have been a new record as I spotted my last post was over a month ago. This time however I do have a much better excuse, two weeks time off away...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  ibm storage virtualization disk ssd svc

I, like a lot of you that take the time out of your lives to read blog ramblings, you probably have your top 3 or 4 authors that you will read no matter what they say - maybe the next 10 that you read just the title, and based on the grab line, may or may not read, then the others that may simply...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  storage enterprise ssd