Last week I had a couple of meetings in Manchester (UK) with some SVC and V7000 end users, as well as the chance to pop in and say hi to our team in the IBM Manchester labs. About two days before heading up the M6 I was asked if I'd like to join in a roundtable session with UKFast - discussing the...   [Continue Reading]


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Configuring IBM Storwize V7000 and SVC for Optimal Performance Part 2 Thanks to everyone who responded to my Part 1 post, I'm amazed at how many people must read what I have to say! Based on the number of you that have either spoken to me in person, or emailed. I'm glad to be of some use Anyway,...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  storage ssd storwize performance hdd svc v7000

As you may or may not have seen, IBM has agreed to acquire Texas Memory Systems : http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/38594.wss   This has many implications (all good) for SVC, Storwize V7000, and Pure Systems. Better integration with existing RamSan products, and of course integrated...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  ramsan performance ssd tms v7000 svc

One of the key benefits of the Storwize V7000 product is its built in Virtiualization capabilites. Or as some vendors like to call it  Federation? Its been almost 9 years since we first released SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and in that time, its been through 6 hardware iterations, and 16 major...   [Continue Reading]


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While catching up on some old and new posts out here I came across an interesting article from Chris Mellor discussing a report about various PCIe card benchmarks performed by the Swiss National Computing Centre (CSCS).   I was going to reply to his post but as I started typing realised I had a...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  pcie svc ssd virtualization v7000 storage stowize nand flash

 Looking back through my posts its been some months since I last opened the floor to you all, so here is you chance, a free floor. Ask anything you like, about SVC of course, but if I don't know I'm sure I know someone that will. Recently I've heard some quite elaborate FUD from the usual suspects,...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  virtrualization storage svc ssd

I've just been through some of our detailed results for 4Q, given that we only announced availability of the new CF8 hardware back in November and exceeded expectations with their adoption. Over the quarter Tivoli Storage Software, which SVC comes under, saw double digit growth. The up-take of the...   [Continue Reading]


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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:  space+efficient virtualization svc storage cache ssd

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:  ssd mirroring virtualization svc storage enterprise

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 svc ds8000 storage 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]


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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:  storage virtualization ssd svc

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:  storage svc ssd virtualization ibm disk

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]


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