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IBM Adds Data Recovery, Space Reclamation to XIV Storage

November 11th, 2009 | No Comments

The addition of asynchronous mirroring opens up new remote disaster recovery capabilities and allows IBM to play in that market, analyst David Hill tells eWEEK. IBM said there is no additional charge for these new functions for current XIV users.
– IBM on Nov. 10 released a couple of fancy
new enhancements to its XIV enterprise storage system: asynchronous mirroring
and instant space reclamation.

Mirroring had been promised
back in July; instant space reclamation hadn’t.

Snapshot-based asynchronous mirroring enables the copying of dat…


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Simon Johnson: “Barack Obama, Like Louis XIV Before Him, Knows Exactly What is Going On”

September 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Many people assume that Obama doesn’t understand that his economic team – Summers, Geithner, Bernanke, Gensler and the boys – are preserving the status quo, and failing to make the fundamental reforms needed to stabilize the economy.They assume that t…

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IBM Finally Upgrades Its XIV Storage System

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

XIV’s Tier 1 external-disk system is completely distributed. It packages all data storage into 1MB chunks and spreads them around the system, so that no one or two disks have to handle most of the workload. This saves on disk life and increases performance.
– A full 18 months after IBM plunked down $300
million in January 2008 to buy relatively unknown XIV and its large-scale
storage systems, Big Blue on July 14 finally announced its own enhancements to
the product line.

XIV’s Tier 1 external-disk system is completely distributed. It packages all
…


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