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IBM’s Cloud Storage OptionsTony Pearson

Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist

IBM Corporation

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Abstract

This session will cover private and public cloud storage options, including XIV, Spectrum Storage, Storwize family and Linear Tape File System (LTFS).

The use of Active File Management for local space management and global access to files, and support for file-and-sync will also be explained.

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This week with Tony Pearson

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Day Time Topic

Monday 10:30am Software Defined Storage -- Why? What? How? (repeats Tuesday)

03:00pm IBM's Cloud Storage Options (repeats Wednesday)

04:30pm Data Footprint Reduction – Understanding IBM Storage Efficiency Options

Tuesday 10:30am Software Defined Storage -- Why? What? How?

12:30pm What Is Big Data? Architectures and Practical Use Cases

01:45pm IBM Smarter Storage Strategy (repeats Wednesday)

Wednesday 09:00am New Generation of Storage Tiering: Less Management Lower Investment and Increased Performance

10:30am IBM Smarter Storage Strategy

12:30pm IBM's Cloud Storage Options

01:45pm IBM Spectrum Scale (Elastic Storage) Offerings

Thursday 12:30pm The Pendulum Swings Back -- Understanding Converged and Hyperconverged Environments

05:45pm Storage Meet the Experts

Friday 09:00am IBM Spectrum Storage Integration with OpenStack

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The Technology and the Business Side of Cloud

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.*

* Source: U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist.gov)

Technology Side… … Business Side


What IT Departments Need to Know

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The IT department is in direct competition with Off-Premise

alternatives for Lines of Business funding

On-PremiseSome workloads require a level of security, availability or government

compliance

Off-PremiseSome workloads might find Public

Cloud is good enough to do it justice at a reasonable price

Traditional IT Private Cloud

Dedicated

Hybrid Cloud

Mixed

Public Cloud

Shared


OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only

IBM is a platinum sponsor of OpenStack Foundation

OpenStack open source codecan manage IBM compute, network and storage resources OpenStack supports x86, POWER Systems and z System mainframe

IBM offers Cinder interfaces on most of its major storage products and Swift interfaces for object access

IBM Cloud is based on OpenStack open source code, with value-added proprietary features from IBM

IBM Cloud Orchestrator andIBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack support a variety of server hypervisors

IBM Spectrum Control™ provides reporting and provisioning. IBM SmartCloud Cost Management provides chargeback capabilities

VMware and Microsoft are entirely proprietary, but have large market share for x86-based server infrastructure

IBM was VMware’s first OEM and joint development partner (since 1998). IBM Global Services is one of VMware’s largest customers

IBM and Microsoft agreement to offer SQL Server and .NET on IBM Cloud and IBM software on Microsoft Azure

“Some assembly required” Enterprise-ready out of the box

x86, POWER systems and z System mainframe Concerns about x86 lock-in

IBM is Focused on these Software Defined Environments

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Dominant Players vs. Contender platforms

OperatingSystems

TapeDrives

Cloud Management

Big Data & Analytics

DominantPlayer(s)

Windows, UNIX

Quantum DLT, Sony AIT

Amazon Web Services

Cloudera

Contender platform

Linux Linear Tape Open (LTO)

OpenStack Open Data Platform

Supporters of Contenderplatform

IBM, RedHat, SUSE, Oracle andothers

IBM, HP, Certance and others

IBM, HP, Rackspace, RedHat, Dell, Cisco, VMware and others

IBM, Pivotal,Hortonworks and others

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Deliver Management Solutions

Perform Optimizations

Contribute Platform Support

� IBM Cloud Orchestrator � IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack� IBM PowerVC� IBM Spectrum Control

� Live upgrades� Security and authentication� OVF Images� Membership services� Globalization translation integration� QA enhancements� IBM DB2 support

� PowerKVM, KVM, z/VM � IBM DS8000, Storwize, SVC, XIV� IBM Spectrum Scale� IBM SDN for VE, OpenFlow Switches

IBM OpenStack Platform

IBM Contributions

HEAT Orchestration

OpenStack IaaS APIs

TOSCA

Nova Cinder Neutron

IBM Unique Value

Swift

Drivers

IBM is committed to OpenStack with contributions and added value

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Cloud Storage Taxonomy

Reference Storage

• Archives• Images/Video• WORM/NENR

Ephemeral Storage

• Typically boot volumes, page files and temporary data

• Goes away when VMis shutdown

Persistent Storage

• Persists across VM reboots

• Can be shared between VMs

• Transactional• High Performance

Storage as the Storage CloudStorage for Compute Cloud

Hosted Storage

• File and Object access• File Sync & Share• Backup/Disaster Recovery


Cloud Storage Overview

Block

File

Object

Archival

Online

Ephemeral

Persistent

• Block storage offerings are differentiated by speed/throughput (as measured in IOPS) and segmented by lifecycle of the disk. Device location does not matter.

• Ephemeral storage is tied to the lifecycle of a single VM (i.e. it is provisioned when the VM is provisioned and destroyed when the VM is destroyed)

• Persistent storage has a lifecycle independent of any single VM and can be provisioned/destroyed at any time and attached/detached to many VMs during it’s life

• File-based offerings are uncommon among providers, especially among those targeting cloud native applications

• Primarily targeted at cloud enabled workloads

• Usage is being replaced in new application development with online object storage

• Object storage offerings are differentiated by the durability of the data (i.e. odds of irrecoverable loss) and segmented by the availability of the data (i.e. time required to retrieve)

• An object in online storage is immediately accessible

• An object in archival storage may require minutes to hours to be accessible

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Software Defined Storage – Block level Access

XIV

FICONz/OSz/TPF

z/VSEz/VM

Linux on z

FCPLinuxWindows

UNIXVMware

…

iSCSILinuxWindows

UNIXVMware

…

LAN

InfiniBand

DS8000

FlashSystem900

Software Defined Environment


Accelerate

IBM Spectrum Accelerate™

SAN


XIV – Radical Simplicity but with Enterprise-Class features

Radical simplicity• Breakthrough GUI, CLI and Mobile

App

• OpenStack, IBM Cloud, VMware, Microsoft and RESTful APIs

Low-touch management

• No RAID groups

• Extreme ease of use across all functionality

• Create volume, resize volume, take snapshot, mirror volume

Self Tuning / Self Healing

• Ultra fast rebuild times

• No manual performance optimization

• No hotspots, no tuning

• Not even when adding capacity!

Enterprise-class Software features

• QoS performance classes

• Thin provisioning and space reclamation

• IBM Hyper-Scale consistency and mobility

• Advanced reporting

• Data at rest encryption

• Performance acceleration with Flash cache

• Snapshots and remote mirroring

• Data migration from other disk systems

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IBM XIV Scalability – Introducing Hyper-Scale

CPU +Cache

CPU +Cache

SingleFrame

Multi-Frame

IBM Hyper-Scale Manager• Up to 144 XIV arrays managed as a single system• Elastic, easily add or remove frames• QoS and management policies• XIV SW license – all inclusive

IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility• Non-disruptive data mobility• Transparent to host applications

IBM Hyper-Scale Consistency• Application consistency across arrays for snapshots

CPU +Cache

CPU +Cache

CPU +Cache

Up to 15XIV modules

Traditional Approach to Scalability• Limited to 2-7 frames/system• Short cables limit distance• System-wide outages• Unfavorable CPU+Cache to disk ratio

degrades performance

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What’s newIBM XIV Cloud Storage for Service Providers

product:XIV with base and optional XIV software features

• Base features - Everything an SP needs to provide Tier 1, predictable, cloud-fit IaaS

• Optional features – Available on a license-per-need basis – pay for what you need, when you need it

Client value:

• High-end cloud storage offering extreme efficiency in meeting diverse tenant requirements

• Flexible ability to compete in the highly price-sensitive cloud services market

• Business advantage of postponing payment until most of the capacity is actually used, via the Advanced System Placement program IBM XIV

Storage System

IBM XIV Gen3

IBM XIV Gen3

IBM XIVCloud Storage for

Service Providers

Service Provider-focused: Base + Optional licensing

Enterprise focused: All-inclusive licensing

NewNew

Base features (included)

Optional features(chargeable)

All features

Flash Caching

Hyper-Scale Mobility

Mirroring

Encryption

Innovative New XIV Cloud Product

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Pay: 60% of F1

Frame #1 Frame #2 Frame #3Sign ASP

Contract

70% capacity

utilization70% capacity

utilization

Pay: 40% of F1;

$1 of F2

70% capacity

utilization

Pay: Balance of F2;

$1 of F3

Pay: Balance of previous;

$1 of next Frame

Frame #N

IBM Advanced System Placement (ASP) –Pay-as-you-go

Unique benefits:Fully populated system (not detuned!) well in advance of paymentFully authorized capacity and performance -- no need for key activationOptionally run several parallel Advanced System Placement tracks as

neededOptionally lease Advanced System Placement frames for CAPEX/OPEX

balancingAgreements for 1, 2 and 3 years; North America: 1 year standard

Unique benefits:Fully populated system (not detuned!) well in advance of paymentFully authorized capacity and performance -- no need for key activationOptionally run several parallel Advanced System Placement tracks as

neededOptionally lease Advanced System Placement frames for CAPEX/OPEX

balancingAgreements for 1, 2 and 3 years; North America: 1 year standard

Get your next XIV frame for $1 upfront, Pay for the rest only after you consume it

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3-15Modules

What’s Different about Spectrum Accelerate?

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12 SED1, 2, 3, 4, 6 TB

Optional SSD500, 800 GB

6 cores24-48 GB RAM

FCP Ethernet IB

FCP Ethernet IB

6-15Modules

Host SANHyper-Scale

Host iSCSI+ Mgmt

Internode

6-12 HDD1, 2, 3, 4 TB

Optional SSD500-800 GB

4-16 cores32-48 GB RAM

VMware ESXi 5.5

Ethernet

Ethernet

Host iSCSI+ Inter-node

+ Management

Accelerate


…

…

IBM Spectrum Accelerate on customer-choice HW

IBM XIV

Gen 3

IBM Spectrum Acceleraterunning off-premise

Unified Management Experience

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• Remote Office, Branch Office. Provide high availability storage to smaller or distributed organizations such as banks and schools through disaster recovery and other capabilities, using less expensive hardware.

• Flexible deployment. Deploy test/dev or ad-hoc project environments and later repurpose hardware for other needs. Mix online transaction processing and new applications like analytics.

• Disaster recovery. Mirror to the cloud or to a data center server running IBM Spectrum Accelerate. Use powerful XIV snapshots to execute backup to on-premise servers


Software Defined Storage - Virtualization

XIVDS8000 FlashSystem 900

Other IBM and non-IBM

Flash/Disksystems

Storage Hypervisor

SVC, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

FCPz/VSEz/VMLinuxWindowsUNIXVMware…

iSCSILinuxWindowsUNIXVMware…

SAN TCP/IP

FCoELinuxWindowsUNIXVMware…

Virtualize

Software Defined EnvironmentOpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only

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Meet IBM’s Storage Hypervisors

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Family of storage systems and storage virtualization systems• One code base on all platforms• One set of functions (selectively licensed)• One Best-of-Breed user interface• One Command Line Interface

Storwize V7000 Unified

SAN Volume Controller

Common Advanced Virtualization BaseMany Different Packages

Storwize V7000

Storwize V3700Storwize V3500 (China)

Storwize V5000

IBM FlashSystem V9000

IBM Storwize family

Storage Hypervisors

built with

IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

Virtualize


IBM Spectrum Virtualize with Spectrum Control

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� Standard Interfaces� Provisioning� Virtualization

Control

Plane

DataPlane

SANStorage Virtualization

IBM Spectrum Virtualize•IBM SAN Volume Controller •IBM Storwize V7000 / V5000•IBM FlashSystem V9000

Snapshot Data Protection

Storage Optimization, Provisioning andTransformation

Infrastructure Resource Management

IBM Spectrum Control•Data and storage management•Storage analytics

One or more


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IBM Spectrum Storage™ versus the Competition

IBM solution is 72% less expensive than EMC over 5 years

IBM solution is 35% less expensive than VMware over 5 years


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Global Namespace for Files and Objects

XIVDS8000 FlashSystem

Storage Hypervisor

Elastic Storage

POSIXWindowsLinux

AIX

NFSCIFSFTPSCPHTTPS

Object• OpenStack

Swift

• Amazon S3

Hadoop

IBM Spectrum Scale™

IBM Spectrum Scale™,Elastic Storage Server, Storwize V7000 Unified

SVC, FlashSystem V9000, Storwize, IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

OtherIBM andnon-IBM

Flash/Disksystems



Internal and Direct Attach

StorageJBOF/JBOD

FPO,

RAID

Scale


Spectrum Scale – Flexible File and Object Storage

FS1FS256. . .

Exabyte-Scale, Global

Namespace

One big file system or divide into as many as

256 smaller file systems

Each file system can be further divided into filesetcontainers

Flashand Disk LUNs are called Network Shared Disks (NSD) Metadata can be separated

to its own Pool or intermixed with data

Files can be migrated to Tape

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IBM Spectrum Scale™ – Supported Topologies

Twin-tailed

SAN

Internal, Direct-Attach

Shared PoolsFPO Pools

NSD Servers

� Access files on direct, twin-tailed or SAN attached disk

� Can export files to application nodes

File Placement Optimization (FPO) Servers

� Access files on direct attached disk

� Exports files to other FPO servers

External Clients

� Access files via file and object protocols over IP network

TCP/IP

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NSD Clients

� Access files via SAN, TCP/IP or RDMA

TCP/IP or RDMA network


IBM Spectrum Scale™ – More than just a file system!

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ROBO

Other NFS

Other Datacenters

Scale

Active File Management (AFM) caches

data to where it is needed, can be used to migrate from other NFS

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

moves data across tiers of flash and disk

Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)

migrates infrequently accessed files to tape,

automatically recalls back when accessed

Local Read-Only Cache (LROC) caches the busiest blocks of files on local flash

Disaster Recovery (DR) asynchronously mirrors data to remote

locations

Migrate/Recall Tape

NSD Client


IBM Spectrum Scale™ – Backup and Disaster Recovery

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Disaster Recovery (DR) asynchronously mirrors data to remote

locations

Backup/Recover

FS1

snap1 snap2

Backup to External Media

• Files can be backed up to IBM Spectrum Protect, or third-party backup software

Asynchronous Mirror

• Use Active File Manager across data center locations

• Specify appropriate RPO

Snapshots

• Up to 256 Snapshots of entire file system, and 256 Snapshots of each file set

• Read-Only, Space-Efficient• Microsoft VSS Interface

• Writeable File Clones


SAN

Twin-tailed

Protocol Servers

NFS, CIFS

AIX, Linux,Mac OS X, Windows, VMware,

z/OS

� Feature of Spectrum Scale

on Linux

� Share files with clients

using NFS, CIFS and Object

protocols

� All nodes can share the

same data

� If Protocol Server Node

fails client connections are

moved to another server

� Protocol Server Node(s)

need “NSD Server” License

� External Clients need no

Spectrum Scale License

Clustered Protocol Servers

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TCP/IP

OpenStack


TCP/IP or RDMA

IBM Spectrum Scale™ as Object Storage

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SAN

OpenStack Swift Amazon S3

Amazon S3

OpenStackSwift

Object Store

Object Store Object-level Storage

Twin-tailed

Elastic Storage Server

TCP/IP Network

Network load balancer


IBM Spectrum Scale™ solves “Dropbox problem” for File Sync-and-Share

SAN

Internal, Direct-Attach

No IT Control:• Servers and storage• Security• Access control • User provisioning• Sensitive data

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TCP/IP or RDMA network

Twin-tailed


IBM SoftLayer Storage Services

Object Storage (OpenStack Swift)

Consistent Endurance & Performance (NFS)

Local

SAN

FTP / CIFS

Legacy iSCSI

Consistent Endurance & Performance

Portable Storage Volumes

Block

File

Object

Archival

Online

Ephemeral

Persistent

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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IBM Spectrum Scale on any Cloud

Active File Management

Private VLAN

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Scale

Scale

NSD Clients and Servers can be deployed within a Private VLAN on any Cloud


Multi-Cloud Storage Gateway: The Future of Storage Economics

Amazon S3

MicrosoftAzure

Private Cloud

RackspaceMulti-cloud Storage Gateway

Note: The Multi-cloud Storage Gateway is planned for the future; plans may changeAlpha preview in 1Q15 with planned beta for select Spectrum Scale clients in 2Q15

Backup

DR

Tiering

Archive

Data sharing • Software defined cloud storage gateway

• Embedded in select IBM software-defined storage and other IBM storage offerings in the future

• Flexibility

• Data can be replicated to multiple IBM and non-IBM cloud object stores

• No CAPEX for reliable, available, distributed and maintained cloud storage

• Based on Apache jclouds® open source

Storage Hypervisors built with Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Scale

Scale

Virtualize

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Global Namespace extends to Linear Tape File System (LTFS)

XIVDS8000 FlashSystem

Storage Hypervisor Internal,DirectAttachJBOF/JBOD

FPO,

RAID

Elastic Storage

POSIXWindowsLinux

AIX

NFSCIFSFTPSCPHTTPS

Hadoop

IBM Spectrum Scale™

IBM SpectrumArchive™

Single Drive

Library

IBM Spectrum Scale™,Elastic Storage Server, Storwize V7000 Unified

SVC, FlashSystem V9000, Storwize, IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

OtherIBM andnon-IBM

Flash/Disksystems

Archive



Enterprise

LTFS

ObjectOpenStack Swift,

Amazon S3


LTFS: What is the Linear Tape File System?

• Self-describing tape format to address tape archive requirements

• Implemented on dual-partition linear tape (LTO-5 and above, TS1140 and above)

• Makes tape look and work similar to other removable media

oFile and directories show up on desktop and directory listing

oShare data across platforms

oDrag & Drop files to/from tape

oSelf Describing Tape Format (SDTF) in XML-Architecture

oSimple, one-time installation

• Developed by IBM

CD/DVD disc

USB Memory

Paper/Film

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Library Edition

Linux or Windows Server

Tape Library

NFS / CIFS

Linux Etc.ArchiveManagementSolutions

Application file access to tape

IBM Spectrum Scale

File system

Single Drive EditionLTFS Format EnablementSingle Drive Support

Library Edition Digital Archive EnablementTape Automation Support

Enterprise EditionIntegrated Tiered Storage Solutions

Application file access to tiered storage

Tape Library 1 Tape Library n

Spectrum Archive – Implementations

…

NSDNFS/CIFSObjectPOSIXHadoop

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IBM Spectrum Archive™ Overview

IBM Spectrum Archive enables IBM tape libraries to read and write LTFS-format tapes as part of a Spectrum Scale™ global namespace

• Based on the integration of Spectrum Scale™ and LTFS technology

• Supports LTFS-enabled devices•TS1140 (or higher) Enterprise Drive

•LTO5 (or higher) Ultrium drive

•IBM Libraries TS4500, TS3500, TS3310, etc.

• Integrated functionality with Spectrum Scale•Supports Policy based migrations

•Seamless DMAPI usage

•Data replication to multiple pools

• Supports scale-out for capacity and I/O•Seamless cache controls between Spectrum Archive Nodes

•Tape drive performance balancing

•Multiple node performance balancing

New York London Tokyo

Clients

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Global Namespace

LTFS LTFS LTFS LTFS

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Cloud Storage Taxonomy

Storage as the Storage CloudStorage for the Compute Cloud

Persistent

Storage• Persists across

VM reboots• Can be shared

between VMs• Transactional• High

Performance

Reference

Storage• Archives• Images

Video• NENR and

WORM

Ephemeral

Storage• Typically boot

volumes, page files and temporary

• Goes away when VMis shutdown

Hosted Storage

• File Storage• Object

Storage• Backup• Disaster

Recovery

IBM XIV / SVC / DS8000 / FlashSystem Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Archive

Spectrum Scale, Elastic Storage ServerTransactional Performance

Universal Access

LowestTCO


IBM Software Defined Storage

Data Plane

IBM Software Defined Storage

Control Plane

IBM for Software Defined Storage

IBM is Focused on Software Defined Environments

• OpenStack, IBM Cloud, VMware and Microsoft

Block-level storage for transactional performance

• FlashSystem, DS8000, XIV, SVC

Volume, File and Object Level Access• Spectrum Scale and Elastic Storage

Server

Lowest TCO with Tape• Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Archive

Scale

Control Protect

IBM ranked #1 in Software Defined Storage with

40% market share in 201437

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About the Speaker

Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior managing consultant for the IBM System Storage™ product line. Tony joined

IBM Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has been there ever since. In his current role, Tony presents briefings

on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, and topics related to Cloud, Analytics and Social media. He

interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads client workshops to help clients with strategic planning for

IBM’s integrated set of storage software, hardware and virtualization products.

Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners

every week. This blog was rated one of the top 10 blogs for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine and #1

most read IBM blog on IBM’s developerWorks. The blog has been published into a series of books, Inside System Storage:

Volumes I through V.

Over the years, Tony has worked in development, marketing and consulting positions for various storage hardware and

software products. Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in

Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Arizona. Tony holds 19 IBM patents for inventions on storage hardware and

software products.

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