IBM SONAS and the Cloud Storage Taxonomy

Confused over the different types of cloud storage? IBMs scale out network attached storage (SONAS) can be used in a variety of use cases. This session will provide an overview of IBMs SONAS solution, provide an update on the latest features and functions recently announced, and explain how it can be deployed in various private, public and hybrid cloud environments.#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Sessions -- Tony Pearson • Monday – 1:00pm Storing Archive Data for Compliance Challenges – 4:15pm IBM Watson: What it Means for Society • Tuesday – 4:15pm Using Social Media: Birds of a Feather (BOF) • Wednesday – 9:00am Data Footprint Reduction: IBM Storage options – 2:30pm IBMs Storage Strategy in the Smarter Computing era – 4:15pm IBM SONAS and the Cloud Storage Taxonomy • Thursday – 9:00am IBM Watson: What it Means for Society – 10:30am Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Overview – 5:30pm IBM Edge “Free for All” hosted by Scott Drummond 3#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Scale Out Network Attached Storage Market Opportunity Worldwide File-Based vs B l o c k - B a s e d S t o r a g e• There is a significant shift Capacity Shipments,2009–2014 in storage usage from traditional structured data to unstructured, file storage content.• ‘Content Depots’ are emerging in storage market in areas like archiving, media repositories, web content, health records, etc. Some reports show this space growing at +90% annually. Source: IDCs 2010 Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model 4 #IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation4

Cloud Storage Taxonomy Hosted StorageEphemeral Storage • File Storage • Typically boot volumes, • Backup/Disaster Recovery page files and temporary data • Web API objects • Goes away when VM is shutdownPersistent Storage • Persists across Reference Storage VM reboots • Archives • Can be shared • Images/Video between VMs • NENR / Compliance • Transactional • High Performance Storage for the Cloud Storage as the Cloud 5#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Cloud Storage TaxonomyPersistent Ephemeral Hosted Storage ReferenceStorage Storage • File Storage Storage • Persists • Typically boot • Backup • Archives across volumes, • Disaster • Images VM reboots page files and Recovery Video • Can be shared temporary Web API NENR / between VMs • Goes away objects Compliance / Transactional when VM Immutability High is shutdown Performance IBM SONAS Information SVC, XIV, IBM partners Archive Storwize V7000 with Nirvanix N series Storage for the Cloud Storage as the Cloud 6#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Problems with NAS filerstoday • Current NAS solutions do not scale • Customers have to add box after box and manage them individually • Difficult to apply policies across independent data islands Classic Filers • Some applications require parallel access“I loved my first filer. and high data rates It was so easy to • Migration, integration or removal of storage for file services is a disruptive nightmare manage. When we installed our 20th, • Backup windows are a big issue and get worse as the amount of data increases I started to hate All files online, but more than 80% havent them.” been accessed during the last 6 months 7#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Using a Global Name Space • Each filer is • Many attempts to solve this with a Mount individually accessed Point Aggregator (F5 Acopia, ONTAP GX) – Each individual file is pinned to a single NAS • “Finding the file” filer becomes… – Maximum single file performance is equal to – Finding the server that the performance of the individual hosting filer has the file – Bottlenecks on individual directory branches … then … – Islands regarding disks, backup, etc. – finding the file on that server / /sales /sales /finance /finance /web /web 8#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Core Value – SimpleManagement “Cloud“ IP Layer “Cloud“ IP Layer Global name space, Classic Filers Every file is accessible from all interface nodes each file is pinned to a single filer / / /sales /sales /finance /finance /web Scale-Out /web Network Attached Storage 9#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

History of SONASIBM Research announces“Storage Tank” project Scale-Out IBM Partners Network Attached SONAS with NetApp Storage (SONAS) R1.3 2000 2003 2005 2007 2010 2011 IBM Launches Scale-Out File Smart Business SAN File System Services (SoFS) Storage Cloud (software only) 10#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM Storage ProductPositioning – Primary Data Mainframe Optimized NAS for all SSD SSD serversEnterprise Distributed SVC SSD SONAS DS8000 N7000 High Performance XIV Flash & Stash SSD Computing SSDMidrange SSD N6000 Storwize DS5000 SSD Storwize V7000 DCS3700 V7000 Unified UnifiedEntry Level DS3000 N3000 Storage Random Sequential 11#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Storage Approach: Carpetingversus Rugs Area Rugs Approach Some clients focused on tactical solutions for particular workloads or applications. Storwize V7000 Unified or N series for specific projects, groups or remote office/branch office (ROBO)Wall-to-Wall Carpeting ApproachSome clients want a strategic storage solution forall of their workloads, applications and servers. Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) 12#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS – Host Attachment • Integrates Clustered CIFS and CIFS NFS FTP SCP HTTPS Clustered NFS via CTDB, which provides: CTDB – Transparent, non-disruptive failover of CIFS and NFS with noSpace Management Provisioning client side changes – Integrated Acess Control Lists Backup & Restore IBM Monitoring (ACL) between Unix, Linux and GPFS Windows Replication Reporting • Active Directory • LDAP Enterprise Linux – Unparalleled aggregate performance scaling, Intelligent IBM Server load balancing, simultaneous access to a single file by heterogeneous clients. IBM Disk • FTP/SCP for File transfers • HTTPS for web content 13#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS – System Software Stack • General Parallel File System CIFS NFS FTP SCP HTTPS (GPFS) - IBM’s high end CTDB clustered file system – Designed for extremeSpace Management Provisioning performance, scalability, and availability – features IBM distributed metadata, wide Backup & Restore Monitoring GPFS striping, byte range locking, parallel I/O, variable block size, Replication Reporting and extensive tuning parameters Enterprise Linux – Reference www.top500.org IBM Server • Rsync for file-level Asynchronous Replication IBM Disk 14#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM General Parallel File System(GPFS™) – History and evolution 1995 1998 2002 2005 2006-7 2009 2010GPFS 3.4 introduces improvements in performance, scalability, migration and diagnostics and enhancedWindows™ high performance computing (HPC) server support, including support for homogenousWindows clusters. GPFS 2.1-2.3 GPFS 3.1-3.2 GPFS 3.3 GPFS 3.4Video First First Information HPC lifecycle Restricted Enhanced streaming called called management (ILM) Admin Windows cluster GPFS GPFS Virtual Research Functions support Storage Pools Tape Server Visualization - Homogenous File sets (VTS) Digital Media Improved Windows Server Policy Engine Seismic installation HPC WeatherTiger Shark Linux® Ease of Real time exploration administration New license Performance GPFS Clusters Streaming Life sciences and scaling General File (Multiple model Read Perf Multiple- improvements Serving architectures) 32 bit /64 bit networks/ RDMA Wide stripe Inter-op (IBM AIX Improved Standards Enhanced Portable IBM AIX® & Linux) Distributed Token snapshot and Loose Clusters GPFS Multicluster Management backup migration and operating diagnostics system Faster failover GPFS over wide Improved ILM support interface area networks (POSIX) Multiple NSD policy engine (WAN) servers semantics -Large block Large scale NFS v4 Support Directory and clusters Small file perf thousands of Small file nodes performance Data management 15#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation 1-15

GPFS: ASC Purple/CSupercomputer• 1536-node, 100 Teraflop IBM System P cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory• 2 PB GPFS file system (one mount point)• 500 RAID controller pairs, 11000 disk drives• 126 GB/s parallel I/O measured to a single file (134GB/s to multiple files) 16#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS – The Logical FileSystem ViewSONAS can hold up to One big file system or divide16.9 PB of usable file space (21 PB raw) into as many as 256 smaller file systems. • RPQ required for file FS1 FS2 ... FS256 systems larger than 8 PB Each file system can be further divided into fileset containers (tree branches) • Policies applied at the fileset level Soft and hard quotas can be Each Storage Pool consists defined for user, group, or of a set of LUNs on the fileset Gold Silver Bronze Storage Pods 17#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Active Cloud Engine™ What is IBM Active Cloud Engine™? Think of it as a very smart, very fast robot – that never sleeps – keeping your cloud storage neat, tidy, and running smoothly… On SONAS, the IBM Active Cloud Engine™ provides: • Policy-based file management • High Speed Scan engine to identify files to be processed • HSM migration of files to tape, with transparent recall • WAN caching across distance 18#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS – HSM andInformation Lifecycle Management • Capacity managed centrally • Average utilization >80% IP Network • Policy driven File placement – direct new SONAS TSM files to the correct initial disk tier File movement – between storage tiers, the least active files can be migrated to tape ILM HSM via TSM File expiration – delete files after they are no longer Just buy the capacity needed you really need 19#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

File Placement Example using DB2 or Oracle • Databases by default places index and data table spaces in Rule ‘Data rule’ set pool ‘index_pool’ the same directory Where UPPER(NAME) like ‘%.INX’ • File placement policies can direct the data to a pool with appropriate performance Fast characteristics using file Index_pool extension/DATA/MYDB/ SQL00002.DAT 15K RPM SQL00002.INX – Data table spaces have a .DAT SQL00003.DAT extension SQL00003.INX SQL00004.DAT – Index table spaces have an SQL00004.INX Lower Cost data_pool .INX extension 7200 RPM 20#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS – Backup and DataReplication Options Files can be backed up to Tivoli Storage Manager LAN • High Speed Scan • Data sent over LAN FS1 NDMP for other backup software snap1 snap2 Up to 256 Snapshots of entire file system, 256 snapshots per fileset • Read-Only, Space-Efficient • Microsoft VSS Interface • /fs1/.snapshot/snap1 • /fs1/.snapshot/snap2 Writeable, space-efficient File clones File System Replication • Synchronous (Rank to Rank) • Asynchronous (SONAS to another SONAS) Gold Silver Bronze via Rsync 21#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS – Options for TSM andNDMP Backups Option 1: IP Network TSM for Backup IP Network and HSM SONAS TSM SONAS Option 2: IP Network NDMP software ILM for Backup only, No HSM SONAS NDMP Symantec NetBackup, CommVault Simpana, and EMC Legato 22#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Antivirus to Protect Your Data Identify customers using CIFS and who require antivirus software for data protection. On-access AV connector provides tight integration to Antivirus scan nodes Files can be scanned manually or through a schedule defined on SONAS "Scan file system" function allows files to be scanned manually or through a schedule defined on SONAS "Scan on access" function automatically scans all specified files on a CIFS share when created, opened, or updated depending on policy settings1) Client Requests 3) Scan nodes attached to customer Windows File IP Network scan the files and return results Network Validated for Symantec and McAfee anti-virus programs Interface Interface Interface Interface AV Connector Nodes Nodes Nodes Nodes Symantec, McAfee Antivirus Software. Storage Storage Storage 2) SONAS intercepts Add more nodes for Storage Nodes Nodes Nodes request and sends to scalability Nodes Scan Nodes High Cap High Perf Load balances across High Perf High Cap scan nodes and manages scan results . Antivirus Scan Nodes 23 #IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Active Cloud Engine:WAN Caching • Central site gets Data Ingest on location(writer) On Demand Pull updates frequently • Regional/edge sites can Backup Site periodically prefetch or pull on demand • Data is revalidated Periodic Periodic pre-fetch Prefetch 24#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Scale-Out NAS hardware components CIFS NFS FTP SCP HTTPS • Since the early 1990s, IBM’s SeaScape Architecture CTDB focused on using Commercial Off-the-Shelf hardware for itsSpace Management Provisioning storage systems IBM Backup & Restore GPFS Monitoring • SONAS continues this tradition, using IBM System Replication Reporting x3650 servers, and high density disk drawers Enterprise Linux • This approach allows IBM to IBM Server take advantage of R&D spent on other server and storage IBM Disk projects 25#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS ArchitectureA clustered configuration of three basicbuilding blocks CIFS, NFS v2/v3, FTP, HTTP all mainframe and distributed Local Console Manager (LCM) LAN 1GbE or 10GbE 2 to 30 Interface Management Nodes (3.5GB/s network 1GbE per node) IP Mgmt Infiniband 20Gbps DDR InfiniBand data network 2 Storage Nodes per Storage Pod 8Gbps FCP between Dual Dual Dual Dual storage nodes and 60 disks Ctrl+ Ctrl+ Ctrl+ Ctrl+ Disk Disk Disk Disk disk controllers (each) 1 to 30 Storage More More More More x4 3Gbps SAS between Disk Disk Pods Disk Disk controllers and disk expansion 26#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Sample configurations forIBM SONAS system Switches Switches Switches 1GbE or 10GbE Interface Node Storage Node Interface Node Storage Node Switches Interface Node 60 Disks Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node 2 Ctrls+Disk Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node 60 Disks IP Mgmt Infiniband Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node 2 Ctrls+Disk LCM Interface Node Storage Node Interface Node Storage Node Storage Node Interface Node Storage Node Interface Node Dual Dual Dual Dual 60 Disks 60 Disks Interface Node Ctrl+ Ctrl+ Ctrl+ Ctrl+ 2 Ctrls+Disk Interface Node 2 Ctrls+Disk Disk Disk Disk Disk Interface Node Interface Node 60 Disks 60 Disks More More More More Interface Node Disk Disk Disk Disk Interface Node 2 Ctrls+Disk 2 Ctrls+Disk Interface Node Base I/O Dense Storage Dense Configuration Configuration Configuration 27#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Interface and Storage Nodes… FRONT VIEW • IBM System x3650 – Form: 2U – Processor: • Dual Quad Core or Single Six-core Intel® Xeon® X5530 • 2.26GHz, 8MB L2 cache, 80W – Memory: 8GB to 144GB DDR3 RAM REAR VIEW – Storage: 300G SAS 10K disk drives – Four PCIe Gen 2.0 x8 adapter slots – Network Interfaces • Quad-port 1 GbE NICs • Dual-port 10 Gb CEE CNAs • Single port 4X DDR InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters • Dual-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) IBM x3650M2 rack-mount server 28#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM SONAS Node Components─ IBM System x3650 Interface Node Storage Node The interface node provides the The storage node provides the connections to the customer’s IP Infiniband connection to the InfiniBand network for attaching to the SONAS cluster interconnect and direct fibre- system for network file serving channel attachment to the SONAS capabilities (CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, RAID controllers. Storage nodes must SCP). be configured in High-availability pairs. • Memory: •Memory: – 24 to 144 GB DDR3 RAM – 32 GB DDR3 RAM • Storage: •Storage: – 2 – 300G SAS 10K (RAID1 pair) – 2 – 300G SAS 10K (RAID1 pair) • Network Interfaces: •Network Interfaces: – 1 GbE and/or 10 GbE interfaces – Two single port 4X DDR Infiniband Host • 2 for Management Channel Adapters – Two single port 4X DDR Infiniband Host Channel Adapters – Two dual-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA) 29#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

SONAS Integrated StorageHigh density advanced storage • Fast • 2GB/s Throughput • 30,000 IOPS to Disk • Ultra-Dense • 60 Drives in just 4U • Scales to 120 Drives with Additional 4U Enclosure, 240 Drives per Pod • Flexible • Intermix SAS and NL-SAS Drawers for Storage Tiering • Highly Reliable • Active/Active Failover • SATAssure Data Integrity Validation • RAID 6 • Redundancy Throughout • Battery Backed Cache 30#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Disk Types/Capacity Supportedfor SONAS •All storage controllers/expansion drawers must be fully populated •No mixing of disk types within the controller or expansion drawer •Controller and attached expansion drawer can contain different disk types Feature Drive Drive RAID Total Data Parity Usable Code Type Capacity Config Drives Drives Drives Capacity 6x 10K 900 RAID 6 60 48 12 43 TB 1310 RPM GB 6x 7200 3 TB RAID 6 60 48 12 141 TB 1300 RPM •Maximum 7200 drives (3TB) usable capacity 16.9 PB •More drive types will be supported as certification and validation tests continue 31#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM SONAS Gateway withXIV Storage MGT Node 1 or 2 XIV systems per Storage Pod MGT Node Switches Up to 5 Storage Node Storage NodeStorage Storage Node PodsKVM Node Storage 8Gbps FC switches Storage Nodeper rack Storage Node LCM Storage Node Storage Node Storage Node Storage Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node IBM SONAS Base Rack IBM XIV 32#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM SONAS Gateway withStorwize V7000 1 or 2 MGT Node Storwize V7000 MGT Node controller enclosures Switches 8Gbps FC switches Storage Node Up to 5 Storage NodeStorage Storage Node Storage Node Pods Storage Nodeper rack Storage Node LCM Storage Node 2 or 4 Storage Node SVC nodes Storage Node Storage Node IBM DS3400 8Gbps FC switches IBM DS5300 Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node Interface Node iRPQ Interface Node IBM SONAS Base Rack 33#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

A variety of applicationsgenerate large volumes of dataMany environments needing easy-to-manage high performance, scalable storage. Collaboration Data General purpose file storage environments where & General File clients are challenged with the manageability of Storage current NAS systems High performance, simplified management Digital Media alternative for widely varying use cases in digital media environments. Hyper-scalable storage for large Web 2.0 stores Web Content Store and for other vendors looking to build their own Cloud/SaaS applications High Performance Many business applications like financial services Analytics can make use of our large single namespace Energy exploration and geo-sciences require huge Energy & Geo- addressable namespaces for analytics and very Sciences high performance. Auto / Aero / Electronics design processes Computer Aided experiencing rapid file-centric storage growth as Engineering simulation expands. 36#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

High level view of Scale-Out NAS Storage (SONAS) Benchmark Performance: 403,326 IOPS single file system (SPECsfs2008.nfs) • SONAS Release 1.2 • Single File System over 900TB usable • 10 Interface Nodes; each with: – Maximum 144 GB of memory – One active 10GbE port • 8 Storage Pods; each with: – 2 Storage nodes and 240 drives – Drive type: 15K RPM SAS hard drives – Data Protection: the drives were configured in RAID ranks 37#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM Scale Out NetworkAttached Storage (SONAS) • Enterprise Class Solution for IP-based File System Storage • One global repository for application and user files – One huge file system, or up to 256 file systems per SONAS • Enterprise solution for all applications, departments and users – Provision and monitor usage by application, file, department or whatever makes sense to the business – Includes ability to report usage and access patterns for chargeback – Capacity managed centrally – Extremely high utilization rates • Simplified management of petabytes of storage • Independently scalable performance and capacity eliminates trade-offs • Cloud-ready#IBMEDGE IBM SONAS Corporation © 2012 IBM 38

IBM SmartCloudfor Development and TestA dynamic virtual development and test infrastructure service -- designed for theenterprise -- on the IBM Cloud The client gets: • Choice of 7 virtual server configurations • Option to add persistent storage charged per usage • Network bandwidth charged per usage • Choice of 14 pre-configured software images – Rational Application Lifecycle Management software – Lotus, WebSphere, DB2 and Informix stacks Payment options: • Pay-as-you-go option (per VM hour charge) • Shared Reserved option – 6 bundles (small, medium, large for 6 or 12 months) – Reserved capacity plus discounted usage rate Available support:www.ibm.com/cloud/developer • Web-based forum for users to submit requests 39#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM SmartCloudDevelopment and Test Cloud 32 x 168 x 10 = 53,760 VMs per SONAS Virtual Machines • Up to 32 VMs per iDataPlex server • Used for ephemeral and persistent storage needs Hypervisor • Each file in standard 256GB, 512GB, or 2TB size • Appears as “Block Storage” to the virtual machine iDataPlex • Up to 10 iDataPlex pairs per SONAS disk system • Two iDataPlex have 168 servers sharing 1 file system Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) • Up to 16.9 PB of usable storage • Read/Write access via CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, SCP • Policy-driven placement, movement and expiration 40#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM Drinks its own Champagne Block Storage Solution components: Business challenge: IBM SAN Volume Controller IGA (IBM’s internal operations) is a massive operation. Data growth • Increased utilization and labor costs were outpacing budgets. Provisioning responsiveness was not meeting objectives. • Live performance balancing Size and Scope Total Storage 24+ PB • Concurrent maintenance Block Storage 9 PB IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center File Storage 1 PB • Performance and Capacity Management Tape Capacity 15 PB • Smarter ILM Storage Solution: Implement a Storage Hypervisor with IBM System Storage SAN File Storage Solution Volume Controller and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. With 9PB of tiered storage now virtualized and connected to over 35k fibre channel components: ports, IGA can improve labor productivity and storage efficiency while IBM SONAS delivering higher service levels. • Policy-driven placement, movement Benefits: and expiration Provisioning time reduced from months to days • Disk-to-Disk and Disk-to-Tape 20% increase in storage utilization migration options 50% reduction in cost / TB through consolidation and tiering • Integrated backup and high-speed scan engine 41#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

IBM provides seamlesstransition to a cloud model • Support for open standards in use in their datacenters today • High degrees of scalability: petabytes of data and billions of files • Global namespace to eliminate islands of data in your environment • Bullet-proof security that integrates into your existing authentication systems • Built-in data placement and ILM via a global policy engineIBM has focused it’s efforts on the demanding needs of our • Support for multiple tiers of storage enterprise client base. including low-cost tape technology • High performance and availability, making it useful in your environment today 42#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

Sessions about SONAS • Presentations – IBM SONAS and the Cloud Storage Taxonomy – What’s new in SONAS and Storwize V7000 in 2012 – IBM Active Cloud Engine on SONAS 1.3 and Storwize V7000 • Hands-on Labs – IBM SONAS GUI Basic Administration – Hands-on Lab – Data Policies in IBM SONAS – Hands-on Lab – Configuring IBM SONAS WAN Caching – Hands-on Lab • Q&A Panels – IBM Edge “Free for All” hosted by Scott Drummond 43#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

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Tony Pearson 9000 S. Rita RoadAbout the Speaker Master Inventor, Bldg 9070 Mail 9070 Tucson, AZ 85744 Senior Managing Consultant Mr. Tony Pearson +1 520-799-4309 (Office) Master Inventor, IBM System Storage™ tpearson@us.ibm.com Senior Managing Consultant IBM System Storage 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 lived there ever since. In his current role, Tony presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, Tivoli storage software products, and topics related to Cloud Computing. 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 management 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 in series of books, Inside System Storage: Volume I through IV. Over the past years, Tony has worked in development, marketing and customer care 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.#IBMEDGE © 2012 IBM Corporation

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