By Have you heard of the IBM v700 Storwize product? It’s IBMs virtualised storage device and it has some great bells and whistles on it. In my mind the greatest is EasyTier which is a technology that uses SSD disk as a sort of cache. Hot blocks of data are automaticaly pulled up off of SAS [...]
It has been a good year for Seric Systems and IBM when it comes to storage. Seric picked up a Netapp Partner of the Year Award for our work with the IBM Nseries and IBM have just beed announced Storage Company of the Year 2011 http://www.storage-awards.com/ against some very niche players in a very niche industry [...]
Seric win UK&I – IBM N Series – Outstanding Partner Achievement Award from NetApp
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 6 June
NetAppp Partner Awards – Check 1min 40secs Seric were delighted to see off some stiff competition and be crowned NetApp UK&I NSeries Outstanding Partner for 2011. If you look closely our heroes can both be seen grinning like the proverbial Cheshire Cat at around one minute and forty seconds. It was a great night out [...]
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My dairy looks like this (and is a fairly typical week!) Today – Nseries sales engagement - Glasgow Wed – Nseries installation – Glasgow Thur – Nseries installation – Glasgow Fri - Nseries upgrade - Leeds Mon – Nseries installation – Aberdeen Tue – Nseries installation – Aberdeen Wed – Nothing to do with Nseries! (yet) Thur – Netapp partner [...]
Well, I’m just back from the Netapp 2010 conference in Prague and what an event it was! For those of you that don’t know, the IBM Nseries storage device is the result of a partnership of Netapp and IBM and I was kindly flown across on an all expenses paid trip by Netapp, due to [...]
IP-CCTV: Upcoming Seminar with our IP Security partners King Communications
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 24 March
Looks like the date is in for our next IPCCTV Event -Thursday May 06, 2010, 09:30-12:30 We've been working with Guys at King Communications to get the tweak the agenda for the intended audience. We've listened to the feedback from the last three events and think this one will be even better than the last. [...]
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Steve Legg, IBM CTO Storage popped in to Seric Towers to give our team a briefing on the one of the more recent updates to the IBM storage portfolio VDS – and very interesting it was too. Steve Legg (right) is pictured here along with Abdo Gadmour (left) who is heading up the charge on [...]
Via Twitter came across @StuieSav 's blog on storage, info et al. Good geek postings and links on there but def this article stood out and struck a chord. Trying to get people to align IT with Business objectives is frustrating but so so so so so key to getting anything done. Why not [...]