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Building a dynamic information infrastructure
Today marks the next phase, or the beginning of a series of announcements, previews and strategy updates from IBM Storage. The splash page for todays launch is over on the storage news pages - this includes R4.3 of DS8000, adding thin provisioning for open systems and mutli-track support for System... [Continue Reading]
Tags:  ds8000 storage svc dynamic_infrastructure information_infrastructur... xiv |
SVC and XIV
The interop just keeps growing. As you would expect you can today attach the new IBM Storage products behind SVC, running the latest 4.3.0 software. SVC has actually supported XIV since August, we completed the controller qualification during our last SVT cycle, and the IBM Storage teams in the US... [Continue Reading]
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Productivity Center 3.3, Striping and Performance
I'd mentioned we (the SVC performance team) have a few bits of fine tuning and investigations to perform for the next (4.3.0) release of SVC. This is the part of my job that I enjoy the most, getting the latest builds from development and putting them through their paces, drilling into the running... [Continue Reading]
Tags:  xiv performance sspc data+center svc |
2008 Should be fun
Just back from a nice relaxing break over the holidays, while keeping one eye on things since the start of the week. It was nice to start back on a Friday though, as it meant I could catch up on the email, sort out a few hosts and drives that had died under the onslaught from two solid weeks of... [Continue Reading]
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