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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Are you a member of a cult?
Steve Duplessie from the Enterprise Strategy Group sent out an amusing tweet the other day: XIV customers are cult like. They really do seem to love (almost unnaturally) the stuff. Very invested.— Steve Duplessie (@stevedupe) October 27, 2011 I am … Continue reading
Posted in IBM Storage, IBM XIV
Tagged Cult, IBM Storage, IBM XIV Gen3, RAID, Storage, XIV
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ProtecTier and Domino: How to get your de-dup back
The IBM ProtecTIER performs in-line de-duplication of your backup data, enabling much faster backups and much faster restore times. De-duplicating your backups allows you to store a lot “more on the floor”. One of the advertised capabilities of ProtecTIER … Continue reading
Posted in IBM Storage
Tagged IBM, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes, ProtecTIER
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IBM XIV – the facts
In you case you hear different, it’s time for a few simple facts about XIV: XIV was founded in 2002 and shipped its first product in 2005. XIV is now up to its third generation in the development process. … Continue reading
Posted in IBM Storage, IBM XIV
Tagged IBM, Infosmack, SPC, Storage Performance Council, XIV
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Virtualizing a Storwize V7000 with an IBM SVC
IBM have offered Enterprise Storage Virtualization since June 2003 with the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC). October 2010 saw IBM releasing the Storwize V7000, taking the SVC code and packaging it into a midrange disk product. So now you have … Continue reading
Posted in IBM Storage, SAN, Storwize V7000, SVC
Tagged Fibre Channel, IBM, Storage virtualization, Storwize, Storwize V7000, SVC
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SNIA Emerald Program is up and running
I got an email today from the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) announcing the availability of the SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification. I have blogged about this in the past as something the industry definately needs to do: … Continue reading
Posted in IBM Storage
Tagged Emerald, IBM, SNIA, Storage efficiency, Storage Networking Industry Association
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XIV Videos on YouTube
So lets be honest here. Watching corporate advertising on YouTube is not my favourite thing to do. But watching people I know… People who are passionate and articulate and who are talking about a subject they understand with tremendous depth… that’s worth … Continue reading
XIV and Capacity on Demand (CoD)
With the announcement that you can order an XIV with 3 TB SAS disks, IBM now have some amazing capacity options and some equally clever growth options with XIV Gen3. As you hopefully know, the XIV consists of modules that … Continue reading
October Storage Announcements
It is that time of the year – IBM Storage announcements time. The number and depth of announcements is a bit over whelming…. there are so many things to talk about. The good news is that my fellow bloggers are … Continue reading
100 Petabytes of wise storage
It seems like only yesterday that it was November 2010. IBM started shipping a new product, and yet a product with an 8 year heritage: The Storwize V7000. It was a very clever decision, taking the mature and very popular … Continue reading
Posted in SAN, Storwize V7000, SVC
Tagged Hardware, IBM, Petabyte, Storwize, Storwize V7000, SVC
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