Chris Saul, Storewise, IBM, with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at IBM Edge 2014
@thecube
#ibmedge
The staggering pace of technological change can sometimes make it seem like startups have an inherent edge over their slower moving incumbent rivals when it comes to innovation. But in some cases, being evolutionarily is just as good as being revolutionary, if not better. IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a testament to that.
Born out of a 1999 research project at the company’s Almaden lab in San Jose, the storage virtualization software started shipping to customers in 2003 and has been continuously improved ever since. Today, the platform is widely recognized as one of the most hardened and feature-rich management stacks in the industry, a leadership position that Chris Saul, the marketing manager for Big Blue’s Storwize lineup of compression appliances, credits for much of his company’s storage success. He stopped by SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded IBM Edge 2014 conference in Las Vegas to lay out just how important of a role SVC plays from a product strategy standpoint and explain how it had gotten to that spot.
In large part, it’s thanks a uniquely successful best of all worlds approach. “One of the things that we aim to do and we have consistently done is to look around in IBM, find technologies that other teams might be developing and see how we can include them into our systems,” Saul tells hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. The system sports interface components from Big Blue’s XIV high-end disk array series, which he notes is considered by many to be one of the most user-friendly offerings of its kind, as well as a host of admirative capabilities including the Easy Tier data distribution feature originally introduced for the DS8000.
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Chris Saul, Storewise, IBM, with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at IBM Edge 2014
@thecube
#ibmedge
The staggering pace of technological change can sometimes make it seem like startups have an inherent edge over their slower moving incumbent rivals when it comes to innovation. But in some cases, being evolutionarily is just as good as being revolutionary, if not better. IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a testament to that.
Born out of a 1999 research project at the company’s Almaden lab in San Jose, the storage virtualization software started shipping to customers in 2003 and has been continuously improved ever since. Today, the platform is widely recognized as one of the most hardened and feature-rich management stacks in the industry, a leadership position that Chris Saul, the marketing manager for Big Blue’s Storwize lineup of compression appliances, credits for much of his company’s storage success. He stopped by SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded IBM Edge 2014 conference in Las Vegas to lay out just how important of a role SVC plays from a product strategy standpoint and explain how it had gotten to that spot.
In large part, it’s thanks a uniquely successful best of all worlds approach. “One of the things that we aim to do and we have consistently done is to look around in IBM, find technologies that other teams might be developing and see how we can include them into our systems,” Saul tells hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. The system sports interface components from Big Blue’s XIV high-end disk array series, which he notes is considered by many to be one of the most user-friendly offerings of its kind, as well as a host of admirative capabilities including the Easy Tier data distribution feature originally introduced for the DS8000.
