Storage is elastic. How do I know you ask? Yesterday I visited a customer who is using the Storwize product to do Real-time Compression on their primary storage. The customer is Allianz and has been using the product for over a year. They see 75% compression on their users home directory data. To give you an idea, Allianz is an insurance company and generates TONS of spreadsheets, 14TB worth of spreadsheets (okay, not all 14TB… Read more »

Between time off with the family this summer and all the work required to get done between 'signing' a deal to be acquired and 'closing' a deal to get acquired, the blog has been a bit slow. But I am here now to tell you it is official. Storwize is now Storwize, an IBM company.

As for myself, I am looking forward to the work of integrating the Storwize Technology into the IBM… Read more »

The new IDC report that came out in May stated that the "...amount of information in the digital universe would grow by a factor of 44 and the number of containers or files would grow by a factor of 67 from 2009 to 2020, the number of IT professionals in the world will only grow by a factor of 1.4". There can't be a more clear indication that it is time to get your storage… Read more »

I am not sure how many of you have seen the ABC show 'V' but it looks like they have it looks like they have two things in common with Storwize.

First, if you are unfamiliar with the show V - the description from their website is as follows:

The Visitors spread their message quickly and clearly: They come in peace, bearing gifts of medical miracles and technological breakthroughs far beyond our wildest imaginations.

Very… Read more »

Check out different mediums of storage throughout the years and the capacities they held. Maybe not as far back as punch cards, but since tape (especially for backups) trying to stuff more data in a smaller foot print has been around for a long time. Hope you enjoy.