With the impending name change to the "Storwize" product, the marketing folks at the old "Storwize" are at it again with their "viral video" campaign. Not sure how many of you have seen the movie or even the trailer to "The Social Network" that grossed $23M in the US brining it to #1 in the box office last week . Its a story of a guy that started in college with an idea and turned… Read more »
Disk Elasticity and Storage Efficiency
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 »
IBM Day 1 - It's Official
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 »
So Easy a CIO can Do It!
You have all seen the Geico commercial - "So Easy a Caveman can Do It!" now its time for high tech to jump into another viral-video marketing frenzy with this funny video.
The reality is Storwize is just that simple, plug it in and start saving 50% to 90% of your storage capacity, transparently without changing your applications, your servers, networks or storage. The technology is so easy to implement even your CIO can do… Read more »
IBM to Acquire Storwize
As most of you have seen by now, IBM has entered into an agreement to acquire Storwize. Being an 'insider' I obviously can't disclose anything about the transaction or the roadmap of the technology inside IBM but what I can tell you is that the Storwize technology will be transforming the data storage industry.
In a webex performed by Storwize and IBM a few months ago, John Power discussed how the trend in the disk… Read more »