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It takes me 20-30 minutes to complete a crossword or Sudoku puzzle. I am in no hurry, and I find the process relaxing. But what if you were paid to complete a puzzle? In that case, finishing the puzzle sooner, in fewer minutes, means more money in your paycheck per hour worked! However, getting paid...
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Filed under: Tony Pearson, Inside System Storage, Outcomes Model approach, Amazon Mechanical Turk, The Mythical Man-Month, Waterfall model, Viggle, TopCoder, Agile Manifesto, Software Economies
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Have you ever noticed that sometimes two movies come out that seem eerily similar to each other, released by different studios within months or weeks of each other? My sister used to review film scripts for a living, she would read ten of them and have to pick her top three favorites, and tells me that...
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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means! IBM Announcements! Typically, IBM System Storage has three to five major product launches per year. Making announcements every Tuesday would have been two frequent, and having one big announcement every two or three years would be too far apart...
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Mark your calendars! If you work in IT and have an interest in storage, then there are two upcoming conferences you might be interested in attending! Join a network of your peers at [ IBM Pulse2012 ] who are fundamentally and cost-effectively changing the economics of IT and speeding the delivery of...
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Sun, Jan 29 2012
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My how time flies! The month is almost over, and people are asking if I plan to discuss my [ New Years' Resolutions ]. For those readers new to my blog, you can review the [ resolutions I made in prior years ]. I started blogging about my New Year's resolutions back in 2007 because IBM has a...
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Thu, Jan 26 2012
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Some job titles can be vague. Have you ever given your title to a person at a cocktail party, only to have to explain exactly what you do? With a title like "IBM Master Inventor and Senior Managing Consultant", this happens to me all the time. To help explain what we do at the Tucson Executive...
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Sun, Jan 22 2012
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Filed under: Portfolio Manager, storage-related projects, IBM System Storage TS3500 library, zoos, IBM storage hardware, storage development, Africa, Tivoli Storage software, performance testers, software engineers, system architects, safari, hardware engineers, IBM Master Inventor and Senior Managing Consultant, Kenya, IBM tape systems, programmer, research scientists, Tucson Executive Briefing Center (EBC), ISV testers, Tony Pearson, developer, DFSMS, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, environment testers, IBM executives, software development
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This week I was aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California! This was a business event organized by [ Key Info Systems ], a valued IBM Business Partner. Key Info resells IBM servers, storage and switches. The Queen Mary retired in 1967, and has been converted into a hotel and events venue. The locals...
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Fri, Jan 20 2012
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Filed under: ibm, vmware, storage, Tony Pearson, switches, Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments, Pat O'Rourke, IBM servers, Fibre Channel switches, California, Key Info Systems, Queen Mary, system storage, Double-Take, Dinner Detective, x86 servers, FASB Change 13, Vision Solutions, High Availability solutions, Lief Morin, IBM Business Partner, power systems, Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack, Long Beach, Ethernet switches, Key Info Systems revenue stream, Brocade Network Subscription
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IBM wins lots of awards, but this time is unique: [ IBM and Fox Networks Group have jointly won an Engineering Emmy® Award ] for Innovation from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. According to the Academy, by improving the ability of media companies to capture, manage and exploit content...
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Mon, Nov 7 2011
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Here are upcoming conferences I will be presenting at for November 2011. Next week, I will be in Auckland, New Zealand for the [ IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium ], similar to the one I attended in Orlando, Florida last July. Here are the sessions I will present: xST03 - Introduction...
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Thu, Nov 3 2011
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Yesterday, I presented [ The Future of Storage ] at the [ Metro Atlanta Chamber ]. The Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) is focused on bringing businesses and jobs into the Metro Atalanta area, and to help its members connect with other companies that can help them thrive. The MAC cover the Metropolitan region...
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An exciting day for my colleague Harley Puckett, who filed his first patent! I am no longer the only patent holder in the Tucson EBC. Our manager Bill Terry presented Harley with a "First Patent" plaque that he will add to his crowded wall of awards. IBM is the [ #1 leader in U.S. Patents for...
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IBM had over a dozen storage-related announcements this week. This is my third and final part in my series to provide a quick overview of the announcements. IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager v6.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is market-leading software that provides not just backup, but also HSM and archive...
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Tue, Oct 11 2011
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Filed under: vmware, Tony Pearson, DFSMS, Disk Midrange Edition (MRE), IBM Almaden Research Center, application-aware backups, Snapshot, Richard Vining, IBM disk systems, XIV replication criteria, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments v6.3, software, IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager v6.3, IBM Cognos, Storwize V7000 midrange disk system, IBM DB2, Del Hoobler, Productivity Center Standard Edition (SE), SAN Planner, FlashCopy, virtualization hypervisors, IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy® Manager v3.1, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center v4.2.2, storage tiering analysis reports (STAR), HSM, HP-UX, VMware vCenter plug-in, archive