Category: IBM

Mar 26

IBM XiV – Real-Life impressions…

The Ethernet back-end on an XiV will still be it's undoing

First impression of the XiV in “action” The GUI is fancy.  Looks like a Mac turned on it’s side. The GUI is also NOT web-based.  It’s an app-install. I do believe however it’s available for multiple platforms. It really does seem to take all of the guess work out of provisioning since you don’t really …

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Mar 24

IBM XIV….

Oh Moshe – you disappoint me so…. When I was at EMC I used to look up at Moshe Yanai like he was a god.  The father of the Symmetrix, used to fly in and out of work in his own Helecopter on occasion, the uber-engineer that we all aspired to be. Oh how the …

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