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Storage in Eastern Europe


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I begin a 12 day trip to Easter Europe to talk about IBM Storage.

The trip will take me to:

  • Moscow, Russia
  • Warsaw, Poland
  • Prague, Czech Republic
  • Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Umag, Croatia

In Russia, on September 6, I will be at the Information Infrastructure Conference and the following day meeting with customers to discuss storage and storage efficiency.

In Poland on September 8, I will be presenting IBM’s Real-time Compression at Storage University.

In Prague I will be meeting with the press as well as speaking with customers.  Additionally, I will be spending the weekend in Prague, a city I have always wanted to visit.

In Slovenia on September 14, I will be presenting at IBM’s Innovation Center at an IBM Solutions Event.

Finally in Croatia on September 15, I will be at the IBM Forum, the largest IBM even in Croatia.

In each location, I will be speaking with partners and customer on IBM’s innovation in storage, storage efficiency and Real-time Compression.  I am looking forward to learning what the largest storage challenges are across Eastern Europe and users go about solving their challenges.  Additionally, I will be doing some local enablement for our partners and sellers.

I will blog from each location.  I will talk about the professional part of my travels as well as, hopefully, one personal event.  I have tried to make sure that in each city I have time to do one interesting thing.  I don’t know when, if ever, I’ll be back to these cities and these are some places I have always hoped to go.  Too often we travel and its all business.

Also stay tuned, when I land I will have an update from my trip to VMworld.  It was fantastic.  Truly the best end user show around.  I learned a great deal and can’t wait to share some of what I saw.  As always – comments are always welcome.

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Language Weaver – RtC – Total Transparency


See how Language Weaver has utilized IBM Real-time Compression and are getting 3 to 1 compression and the solution was totally transparent to their infrastructure.

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Feb 18, 2011 | 2 comments View Post

Shopzilla – IBM Real-time Compression is Transparent


Shopzilla has been a customer of the IBM Real-time Compression technology for over 2 years.  Here they describe the benefits of the technology.

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Feb 15, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Real-time Compression “Meets Minimum”


IBM's Ed Walsh, Director of Storage Efficiency sits down with Steve Duplessie, Founder of ESG to talk about how IBM Real-time Compression sets the bar for doing storage optimization in NAS. At the end of the day, if you can do compression in real time, without sacrificing performance and the transparency of the implementation, then why wouldn't you - given the savings you can get over traditional compression.

We all know compression is not new and it is coming as a standard feature in a number of storage systems. The issue is, each of these technologies has a significant impact on performance - both primary storage performance as well as the performance on all of the back end operations such as backups, replication etc...

IBM's Real-time Compression doesn't have any of these limitations - listen to Ed to hear more.

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Jan 19, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Polycom Saves Big with IBM Real-time Compression


Amit Bar-On, Manager of IT at Polycom in Israel shares his story with us about not only does IBM Real-time Compression save him storage space, that space can actually  now be used for people instead of equipment.  As Polycom continues it success in the telepresence business, they have grown in the last five years to having over 120 developers in Israel.  Office space anywhere is expensive, in Tel-Aviv it is VERY expensive.  Polycom is taking data storage and data management to a whole new level.

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Jan 12, 2011 | 1 comment View Post

Key Competitive Advantages to IBM Real-time Compression


It still baffles me when there is so much information available for people to learn about any topic and it is not used.  Many times people just tend to rely on the information provided by their employer (which in many cases is just competitive FUD).  This video was the result of reading an email between IBM and one of their key partners on the competitive knowledge of each others products.

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Jan 10, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Storage Alchemist Video Update #2


See how data deduplication and IBM Real-time Compression work hand in hand.

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Linked In Storage Discussion on Storage Efficiency


Great conversation on Linked In about deduplication and compression for storage efficiency in the Data Storage Professionals Group.  Help the storage community answer this question:

Does anyone has any experience in NAS de-duplication at filesystem level, like NetApps. Does it really work? I concerns/limitations?

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Jan 04, 2011 | 2 comments View Post

Storage Alchemist Video Update


Hey, as most of you know, IBM purchased Storwize and changed the name.  I have updated all of my previous videos that talked about the technology from saying "Storwize" to "Real-time Compression" - and added some more technical details.  Also, with the help of Media Boss, I have updated the intro - pretty cool stuff!  Have a look and tell me what you think!

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Snowball VFX Keeps the Avalanche Under Control


What a great name, Snowball.  And much like information can behave like a "snowball" turning into an "avalanche", Snowball VFX has been able to control the avalanche of data utilizing the IBM Real-time Compression technology.  Here in this video customer case study, Yoni Cohen, Founder of Snowball talks about the value of Real-time Compression in his environment.

Additionally, we have captured from all of our Media & Entertainment customers what they think about the Real-time Compression technology.  To see the value proposition, check out our Media & Entertainment Portal through our good friends at TechValidate.

By the way, we couldn't have captured this amazing video without the help of the folks at Snowball for all of their footage they let us use as well as the folks at MediaBoss TV who helped us create this video.

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