Posts by returnofthemus 234 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Aug 2014
This is never a good idea, especially for a tech company.
IBM maintain an annual R&D budget of circa $6bn and is probably the sole reason for it's 100-year plus existence.
The only figures that ever look good are growing revenues and healthy margins, notwithingstanding those of voluptuous women!
Must have been a slow news day
To think most of the week they've been hosting the inaugural Think 2018 conference and the only thing El Reg has to show for it is this, LOL!
My only real question is how this ended up in the Data Centre section???
Good luck on getting IBM to respond to this garbage and welcome to the Cognitive Era!
I think what the author is highlighting a modern use case for a 10-year old+ technology, at the moment storage veterans appear to be besides themselves salivating over anything NVMe like it's the best thing since sliced bread, whilst IBM have been taking it in it's stride
Notwithstanding it's many video surveillance cases, it's also part of the engine powering the world's fastest supercomputer.
I'm not sure IBM ever promoted this particular storage device as a NAS filer?
Besides which, at this moment in time Spectrum NAS is a software only solution.
"So you get the situation where, for example, Spectrum Virtualize is also called Storwize.
It's not! Spectrum Virtualize is the code decoupled from SVC, which can be run independently of the appliance, much the same way Spectrum Accelerate is the decoupled code from XiV.
Naturally, IBM have incorporated this code in some of their storage devices, AFAIK they still sell the SVC appliance, have incorporated the code on both Storwize and FlashSystems, now with the option to buy it as software only.
As I previously stated 'Spectrum' is largely a collection of software assets, harmonising and consolidating it's storage software assets under a single unfied brand, as well as consolidating features and functions is nothing more than common sense
In my experience those who are easily confused by 'freedom of choice' don't understand their own use cases and probably lack the ability to think outside the box, I thought the industry/market was suppose to be shifting away from dictatorships?
You must be the only person on the planet that it doesn't work for, I don't think they could've made it any more simple, especially in an industry full of three and four letter acronyms, the naming convention of it's storage software assets (Spectrum) is pretty much self-explanatory and something most objective commentator's would applaud IBM for.
Your assertion is also a bit wild, though would point out that their prior OEM agreement in this space was with NetApp (N-Series/SONAS), in the end it boils down to maintenance and support.
LOL!
Exactly how many are you looking for and what's the rush ;-)
Watch this space!
I not sure in what context we're talking data management
No acquisitions necessary!
a great summation on why IBM's FlashSystem's have no need to incorporate NVMe at present.
Don't discount the other big player in this space who have also had 16G FC support for a while, though at one time they did appear to be pushing an all-Ethernet agenda.
However, looks like market resistence brought them back into the fold to the point where they now have a 48-port x 32Gb FC line card for their MDS chassis's.
Much like the death of the Mainframe, the death of FC has been greatly exaggerated.
"Bootnote
*We should stress this is not a commitment by IBM to produce an NVMe over Fabrics-accessed FlashSystem".
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, haven't we already witnessed DSSD crash and burn ;-)
PS Somewhat reminiscent of the time when the two Chris's got together with a Storagebod on a podcast predicting the 'end was nigh' for IBM storage, LOL!
No, what actually happened is that IBM and Nutanix announced a partnership, whereby Nutanix would be enabling their software stack on POWER architecture, the result being IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix, which is now GA.
The real irony here is that prior to this annoucement Mr. Mellor had been bleating for months that IBM couldn't participate in Hyped-Up Converged, due to no longer having an x86 Server business, makes you wonder what part of Marc Andreessen's "Why Software Is Eating the World" he doesn't quite get.
PS More humble pie for Mellor, LOL!
Spot on!
However, for everything else there's IBM and no-one does it better
Period!
Integration at every layer of the stack.
Just like the InterCloud
No Roadmap, No Eco-system, No Future!
Hopefully, next year when GDPR come into force it will be a different story.
For now I'll stick with Firefox and continue to support good causes by playing our National Lottery, no real point downloading Chrome until then.
Apparently, the payouts will be much BIGGER Too!
Ker-ching :-)
LOL!
Really... I wonder in what way they mean?
PS Chris, where did you find this Anonymous Storage Chump, were they ex-EMC or from one of the last HDD manufacturer's left standing
Depends what you're looking for in a tech stack, if you're in a critical industry and have mission critical applications, it's hardly something you're going to entrust to the likes of an AWS, GCP or Azure, don't don't me wrong their all great storage repositories, but you'd be hesitant using them to store your crown jewels given their standard SLA's.
LOL!
Well, you know how it is with kids they like to keep active, some are even hyperactive and what better way is there than letting them run round a Windows server farm putting out fires, plus it keeps them away from the mainframe where they could do some real damage!
That's because it's specifically designed for high volume transactions, but don't worry POWER9 is on the way, if it's general purpose you're after they operate a public cloud with x86 in abundance.
I think that just about covers it from a hardware perspective
"IBM management didn’t have a clue about how an advertising company works".
LOL!
IBM have been working with the Advertising industry and WPP particularly for decades, in fact IBM were once the principal supplier to Mediaocean (formerly Donovan Data Systems) who were a leading supplier of software to Ad agencies.
Furthermore, IBM have built one of the world's largest digital agencies
Having worked with a large proportion of WPP companies, I'd blame the operating model, far too many companies in the group have a fairly liberal autonomy and that clearly needs to be brought under a centralised control, running outdated Windows PC's also doesn't help.
LOL!
Funnily enough a couple of years ago this is exactly what the Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty declared.
The fundamental difference being that IBM do operate a large scale public global cloud comprising over 50 data centre's, with a focus on Hybrid cloud integration, but you highlight well just how generic the term 'Cloud' has become.
However, if you think that it's easy for large enterprises to pick up everything they've been doing inhouse for many decades and bung them onto someone else's infrastructure easily, then you're mistaken, because if that were the case companies like Accenture wouldn't exist.
PS Cloud is a journey, not a destination ;-)
"It's their products and their business, and you seem to have the apparently deluded impression that Amazon would be operating at a loss if not for their cloud business".
It has nothing to do with Amazon operating at loss, even though it's common knowledge that they do.
This is clearly about removing any conflict of interest, it's one thing creating your own platform to support your core business, but inviting people to make use of that platform to mine their data, then offer competing services is very unsavoury.
Let's not forget On October 1, 2015, Amazon announced that Google Chromecast and Apple TV products were banned from sale on Amazon.com by all merchants, with no new listings allowed effective immediately, and all existing listings removed effective October 29, 2015. Amazon argued that this was to prevent "customer confusion", as these devices do not "interact well" with the Amazon Video ecosystem. This move was criticized, as commentators believed that it was meant primarily to suppress the sale of products deemed as competition to Amazon Fire TV products, given that Amazon itself had deliberately refused to offer software for its own streaming services on these devices, and the action contradicted the implication that Amazon.com was a general online retailer.
Yeah, that's even more hilarious than their hissy-fit.
If AWS wasn't supporting it's retail business it would've spun it out by now, it's kind of obvious to all and sundry Amazon is Amazon's biggest customer, it's an online retailer parading as a technology company, not content with it's own cake, it wants yours too!
Walmart have called it out exactly as it is, it's Netflix I feel sorry for most, my gut feel tells me those investigations into anti-competitive practices will come too late, though then again their management could well be happy to exit.
PMSL!
Calling POTS, Black Kettles!
Book Stores, Book Authors, Book Publishers & Distributors was just the start, people and organisations should be extremely cautious about the information they send to AWS for more than the obvious reasons
LOL!
(Another one of Cringely's disciple's)
I'm afraid the BS being called out is yours.
While IBM is indeed experiencing shrinking revenues, it's a highly profitable company generating $80B in revenue employing 380,000 people.
We all know who their Sugar Daddies are, but please don't insult your own intelligence by trying to tell me MapR or even Cloudera have the resources to match.
In this instance the HDP management proved smarter, not only by getting out in front with their IPO, but also partnering and cementing that partnership with the undisputed leader in Business Analytics
Oh Dear,
Sounds as if they've realised the pitfalls of over provisioning, I guess capacity planning went straight out of the window when building these facilities, though don't despair, a quick conversion into luxury apartments powered by Alexa should do the trick ;-)
Could well be, let's not forget that this was an OEM agreement, all IBM were doing was applying it's badge, incorporating software and taken responsibilty for support, but at the same time you'd probably have to accept that market demand could not have been high, especially in Europe, would be interesting to find out if it's the same case in NA and others who may have had similar OEM agreements.
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