I always thought Spectrum was green ...
Big Blue drops a billion dollars to refresh its pig herd's lipstick
Confirming earlier leaks, IBM has decided storage needs to be sold under the software-defined rubric and has given various existing products a Spectrum wash and brush-up; like green-wash but think software-defined. It also plans to invest more than $1bn in its storage software portfolio over the next five years. IBM Systems …
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Tuesday 17th February 2015 18:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
Whoever came up with this "software defined" bollocks needs a good hard punch in the face.
Same shit, different label.
As for buying storage software and putting it on any old hardware, remember how much time and money the big companies, like IBM, put into testing the various combinations of software and hardware so they feel confident they can support you. Well, now you're on your own. If it doesn't work on the hardware you've invested in (unless you're so fucking stupid you think that we don't have hardware any more - just "clouds") then tough shit - you're on your own.
Of course, if they no longer have to qualify the hardware then that's another few thousand people they can get rid of. And if that doesn't work, hey let's just buy back some more shares to make it look like we're not destroying the company.
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Tuesday 17th February 2015 18:59 GMT FrankAlphaXII
Spoken like someone with first hand experience with IBM mis-management. Instead of being relevant and making products people want, they'll just stick a band-aid/plaster over the business equivalent of a cancerous mole and sell more stuff to Lenovo when that doesn't work out.
I wonder what the next part to go is, cloudy bullshit or mainframes?
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Wednesday 18th February 2015 02:13 GMT Sarah Balfour
A billion…
…and they STILL produce an infographic using Comic Sans (The Font That Won't Die)…?!
Still got my Speccy. No longer got a tape player I can hook up to it though. Got a RAMpak, too, though I never did figure out how the damn thing worked (then the connector got rodented, so now it never will).
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Wednesday 18th February 2015 09:22 GMT josh.krischer
IBM - the SDS leader?
Currently most of the storage Control Units are based on the x86 processors, same technology as the servers; multi core Intel chips. In fact the multi core is used much more effectively is CU than in servers. Multi-core technology and server virtualization bring some other developments to watch such as the Virtual SAN Appliances (VSAs) or Software Defined Storage SDS) and embedded application on storage control units. The first emulates the server as storage CU, the second using storage CU for applications. SDS is one of the top considerations of IT executives. After selling the x Series to Lenovo, IBM margins on the server hardware are minimal .IBM simply disconnected between the hardware and the control program of almost all storage devices based on x86 platform. It means that the users can use unused or 3rd party servers (or partitions under VMware) to become storage control units, which in many cases can save money. However, it is for the users to deploy servers according to IBM specification and to take responsibility on their availability.
This step, practically makes IBM the leader in SDS offering such solution for tapes, virtualization, XIV storage and clustered NAS. Not a single other storage vendor is coming close to this palette.