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I've a couple responses after reading the articles. Not necessarily
directed at storage but at comments in the articles.
As to the LUG one - a good article - near the end it says that if you
don't qualify for the LUG, don't be dismayed - what the LUG is concerned
with also often applies to smaller shops.
While this is true, it is important to know that IBM have 4 customer
advocacy groups that I know of - LUG, CAAC (COMMON Americas Advisory
Council), CEAC (COMMON Europe Advisory Council), and the ISV Advisory
Council. I have been on CAAC for several years and used to be on the ISV
Advisory Council when working at RcJS Software. Both CAAC and CEAC are
focused on the SMB shops.
I remember a face-to-face CAAC (I think) meeting a few years ago, where
something was presented as plans for the system. It was clear that it
probably originated with LUG, and the presenter was very interested to
hear the SMB feelings about it - which turned out, in this case, to be
different from the very large shops. So IBM do listen to all of the groups.
As to storage - it's not clear to me what "flash" means here - is it
only applicable to SAN storage? Or is it a term that also refers to
SSDs? So I'm not sure that the article is saying there will be no
internal storage.
Anyhow, enough for now - we shall see what the future holds for us.
BTW, members of all the councils are under strict NDAs - sometimes we
can share with others in our companies who have a need to know,
sometimes we can't even take what we heard out of the room.
Cheers
Vern
On 1/27/2017 8:55 AM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
The storage options on IBM i seem to be evolving as fast as security topics, to the point where spinning disks will no longer be offered on Power Systems servers, that it will be all flash and tape (a prediction that an IBM executive made to IT Jungle last year<https://www.itjungle.com/2016/11/07/tfh110716-story03/>, and which the LUG confirms has been communicated by IBM to them too).
https://www.itjungle.com/2017/01/25/discussed-big-lug-meeting/
https://www.itjungle.com/2016/11/07/tfh110716-story03/
Thank You
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