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Software Defined Storage –Technical Overview Why? What? How?Tony Pearson

Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist

IBM Corporation


Abstract

IBM is ranked #1 in Software Defined Storage.

Recent announcements about the IBM Spectrum

Storage family makes the IBM portfolio even more

impressive.

Learn why companies are excited about Software

Defined Environments; what storage products and

solutions IBM has to offer and how they are deployed.

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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 Costs 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


How is Software Defined Environment different?

Applications…� Business Requirements

Infrastructure…� Servers, Storage, Networks

Optimize Your ResourcesOptimize Your Resources

Automate Your Workloads Automate Your Workloads

Sim

plif

ied

Managem

ent

Sim

plif

ied

Managem

ent

ComputeCompute StorageStorage NetworkNetwork

� APIs� Orchestration� Service Levels

� Standard Interfaces� Provisioning� Virtualization

Control

Plane

Data

Plane

Facilities

SystemAdmin

StorageAdmin

Application Owner

NetworkAdmin

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Control Plane vs. Data Plane

Data Plane

Control Plane

Resource Pools and Quotas Quality of Service (QoS)

Service Catalog

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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 Manager with OpenStack and IBM Cloud Orchestrator support a variety of

server hypervisors

IBM Spectrum Control™ provide

reporting, provisioning, trouble

shooting and chargeback

capabilities

VMware and Microsoft are

entirely proprietary, but have a 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 vendor lock-in

IBM is Focused on these Software Defined Environments

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#3 – Rapid InnovationLarge community effort enables faster developmental effort

#2 – Vendor InteroperabilityHigh quality, multi-vendor & user community = freedom from lock-in

#1 – Open, Modular DesignFlexible architecture with open components enables options

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

IBM led the formation of the OpenStack Foundation

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Software Defined Control and Deployment

Administrator-Controlled Software-Controlled

How is it controlled?

• ProtecTIER appliance and gateway

• LTFS software with LTO tape drives

• IBM SpectrumStorage™ family

• XIV storage system• Elastic Storage

Server

Ho

w is i

td

ep

loyed

?

Industry-Standard Hardware

• Software• Pre-built systems• Cloud services

• FlashSystem 900• Enterprise Tape drives

and libraries

• FlashSystem V9000• SVC/Storwize with

Intel QuickAssist• DS8000

Specialized Hardware• Co-processors• ASICs, FPGAs• Adapters

I II

IVIII

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Different Clients have a Different Focus

Cloud andManaged Service

Providers

• Focus on industry-standard x86 and OpenPOWER

servers that can be quickly re-purposed

• Offer services based on advanced software that can be deployed as needed on existing

industry-standard equipment

• Predictable, consistent performance

Focus:Industry-standard HW

Focus:SoftwareControls

• Focus on Software APIs to simplify, automate and control existing investments

• Use specialized hardware to provide optimal performance for mission-critical applications

Data Centers8


Get It Your Way: Software, Cloud Service or Pre-built System

Proven Technology, Open Standards, Modular AdoptionMore than $ 1 Billion Investment over next 5 years

Announcing IBM Spectrum Storage™ family

Management

InsightSpectrum Control™

GovernanceSpectrum Protect™

Block File and Object

FlexibilitySpectrum Accelerate™

UtilizationSpectrum Virtualize™

Elasticity Spectrum Scale™

PlacementSpectrum Archive™

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IBM Spectrum Storage™ family

Pre-built Systems Software Cloud Service

IBM Spectrum ControlBased on technology from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, FlashCopy Manager, Storage Analytics Engine

IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights (beta)

IBM Spectrum ProtectBased on technology from Tivoli Storage Manager Unified Backup and Recovery Suite

IBM SmartCloud Managed Backup and Archive

XIV Storage System

IBM Spectrum AccelerateBased on technology from XIV

SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize, FlashSystem V9000

IBM Spectrum VirtualizeNot sold separately, installed on pre-built systems

Elastic Storage Server, Storwize V7000 Unified

IBM Spectrum Scale Based on technology from GPFS

IBM SoftLayer Elastic Storage

IBM Spectrum Archive Based on technology from LTFS

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Exploring IBM Software Defined Storage CapabilitiesIBM Spectrum Storage™ family

IBM Spectrum Accelerate™

• Offers hot-spot free

block-level access

across internal flash

and disk resources

• Thin provisioning,

Space-efficient Snapshots and Remote

Mirroring capability

• Based on technology

from XIV Storage System

IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

• Offers storage virtualization of over 300

different flash and disk

systems

• Thin provisioning, Real-

time Compression (RtC),

FlashCopy and Remote Mirroring capability

• Based on technology from SAN Volume

Controller and Storwize family of products

Block

FlexibilitySpectrum Accelerate™

UtilizationSpectrum Virtualize™

Software Defined Environment

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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


OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only

Accelerate

IBM Spectrum Accelerate™

SAN

* Requires IBM Spectrum Control Base edition

*


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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3-15Modules

What’s Different about Spectrum Accelerate?

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12 SED1, 2, 3, 4, 6 TB

Optional SSD500, 800 GB

6 cores

24-48 GB RAM

FCP Ethernet IB

FCP Ethernet IB

6-15Modules

Host SAN

Hyper-Scale

Host iSCSI

+ Mgmt

Inter

node

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 on Softlayer

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. Store cold/archive data on

lower-cost storage. Deliver enterprise capabilities to different tiers.

• 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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Virtualize Your Infrastructure

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Virtual Server

Infrastructure

Virtual Storage Infrastructure

Built with IBM Spectrum

Virtualize™Storage Hypervisor

Midrange and Entry-Level

Storwize

IBM Spectrum Control™

Enterprise

SAN Volume Controller

Flash

FlashSystem V9000

Virtualize

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I/O Group 0 I/O Group 3…

Volumes:

Belong to one or more I/O Groups

Volume Size 16 MB to 256 TB

Dynamically Expandable

Thin-Provisioned, Compressed

Cluster:

1-4 Node-pairs (I/O Groups)

Cache, Copy Services

Storage Pools:

Managed Disks from 256 flash

and disk systems

Assign LUNs to Storage Pools

Define Extent size (16MB to 8GB)Gold Silver Bronze

Storage Hypervisor – Terminology

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Management

InsightSpectrum Control™

GovernanceSpectrum Protect™

IBM Spectrum Control™

• Offers Application

programming interfaces

(API) for OpenStack, IBM Cloud and x86-only

environments like

VMware and Microsoft


from IBM SmartCloud

Virtual Storage Center, IBM Tivoli Storage

Productivity Center

IBM Spectrum Protect™

• Offers Backup, Archive

and HSM capabilities

• Extended to support

Virtual and Cloud

environments


from IBM Tivoli Storage

Manager Unified Backup and Recovery Suite


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A centralized server system that consolidates a range of IBM storage provisioning,

automation and monitoring solutions through a unified server platform

VASA

VWC

<future plugin>

Common

Services(Authentication,

High availability,

Configuration storage,

Etc.)

FlashSystem

Mgmt

DS8000

Mgmt

SVC Mgmt

Software DefinedEnvironment

IBM Spectrum Control Base Storage Arrays

3rd Party

Mgmt

What is IBM Spectrum Control Base edition?

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IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights (Beta)Future capability

IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights is available now as a public beta

Visit https://www-304.ibm.com/software/support/trial/cst/forms/nomination.wss?id=5993

Overview

SoftLayer cloud-based storage and data reporting provides key insights

into usage without need for major software deployment

Key Capabilities

Identify and categorize storage assets

View performance history for application workloads

Reclaim unused / wasted storage spaceOptimize data placement within the infrastructure

Benefits

Helps reduce storage and administrative costsSimplified management and deployment

Provides deep understanding of storage and data usage

Enables capacity planning and performance management

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Efficiently protect hybrid environments

• Flexible retention policies for source and target

• Up to 10x improvement in deduplication (V6 vs V7)

• Heterogeneous, application aware snapshot support

• Automatic failover for client recovery

• Automatic repair of damaged files or volumes

Fast & flexible recovery of VMs • Multiple recovery options using single-source backup

• Instantly access or recover VMs and perform file level restores

• Granular protection and recovery (datastore/image/volume/file)

• Incremental forever for VMware and Hyper-V

• Fully integrated recovery experience in vSphere

Data Protection Simplification • Prescriptive blueprints for deployment

• Centralized visibility and control

• Mid Market packaging and pricing

• Front End capacity licensing

• TSM portal for cloud deployment and management

IBM Spectrum Protect™ is the performance and scalability leader

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IBM Spectrum Scale™

• Offers a global name space of file and object access storage

• Space-efficient

snapshots, Information Lifecycle management

(ILM), Active File

Management (AFM) and remote mirroring

• Based on technology from IBM General

Parallel File System (GPFS)

IBM Spectrum Archive™

• Extends IBM Spectrum

Scale™ to IBM tape libraries, with LTO or

Enterprise tape drives

• Drastically lowers the

cost for long-term data

retention


from IBM Linear Tape

File System (LTFS)


File and Object

Elasticity Spectrum Scale™

PlacementSpectrum Archive™

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Global Namespace for Files and Objects

XIVDS8000 FlashSystem

Storage Hypervisor

Elastic Storage

POSIXWindowsLinuxAIX

NFSCIFSFTPSCPHTTPS

ObjectOpenStack Swift, Amazon S3

Hadoop


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

SVC, FlashSystem V9000, Storwize

OtherIBM andnon-IBM

Flash/Disksystems


Internal and Direct Attach

StorageJBOF/JBOD

FPO, RAID

Scale

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The Problem: Islands of SAN, File and Object level data

SAN-level Storage

� OS-specific file systems on direct -attach or SAN-based devices

� Sharing requires file transfers

� Provides “Context” for Analytics of Social and Mobile transactions

File-level Storage� NAS encourages sharing

across social networks

� Desire for file sync-and-share across desktops and mobile

� HDFS requires transfer (ingest) from other sourcesJFS2

EXT4

NTFS

CIFS

HDFS

NFS

Object-level Storage� New Web and Mobile apps

prefer Object-level access

Amazon S3

OpenStackSwift

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IBM Spectrum Scale™ –Software, Systems or Cloud Services

Software

• Install software on your own choice of Industry standard x86 or POWER servers

Pre-built Systems

• Elastic Storage Server with Erasure Coding

• Storwize V7000 Unified

Cloud Services

• Spectrum Scale can be deployed on any Cloud

Scale

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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

Flash and 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™ – 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


Hadoop Analytics – HDFS vs IBM Spectrum Scale™

HDFSSaveResults

Discardre

st

IBM Hadoop

Connector allows

Map/Reduce programs to process

data without application changes

IBM Spectrum Scale

Application data

stored on IBM

Spectrum Scale is readily

available for analytics

SaveResults

JFS2

NTFS

EXT4

Data Sources mashup of structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources

Actionable InsightsProvides answers to the

Who, What, Where, When, Why and How

Business Intelligence & Predictive Analytics> Competitive Advantages> New Threats and Fraud

> Changing Needs and Forecasting

> And More!

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Twin-tailed

SecretSauce

IBM Spectrum Scale™ – Pre-Built Systems

NSD Clients

� Windows, Linux and AIX servers

External Clients

� Access files viaNFS, CIFS, HTTPS, SCP, FTP protocols

Storwize V7000 Unified

“NAS appliance”Twin-tailed

Elastic Storage

Server

“Building block”

TCP/IP Network

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TCP/IP or

RDMA


Global Namespace extends to Linear Tape File System (LTFS)

XIVDS8000 FlashSystem

Storage Hypervisor Internal,DirectAttachFlashJBOD

FPO,RAID

Elastic Storage

POSIXWindowsLinuxAIX

NFSCIFSFTPSCPHTTPS

ObjectOpenStack Swift, Amazon S3

Hadoop


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


Enterprise

LTFS

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Archive


IBM Spectrum Scale – Tape options

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• For Spectrum Protect or HPSS

• HSM client is installed on Spectrum Scale cluster

• Spectrum Scale sends migrations copy to HSM sever

• HSM Server stores data in proprietary format

IBM Spectrum Protect IBM Spectrum Archive

� Spectrum Archive is installed on select NSD servers of Spectrum Scale cluster

� Spectrum Archive migrates data directly to LTFS-format tape

Spectrum Scale Cluster

SAN

Spectrum Scale Cluster

SAN

HSM Client

HSM Server

IBM Spectrum Protect (and HPSS) support a variety of

flash, disk, virtual and physical tape

libraries, and even

optical libraries

IBM Spectrum Archive eliminates a

need for a TSM

server, but is limited to LTFS-enabled

tape libraries

DB

LTFSHSM

Spectrum Archive


IBM Spectrum Archive™ Overview

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IBM Spectrum Archive enables IBM tape libraries to read/write LTFS-format tapes in an IBM Spectrum Scale™ environment

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

• Supports Spectrum-enabled libraries and drives•TS4500 and TS3500 Enterprise libraries

•TS3310, TS3200, TS3100, TS2900 libraries

•TS1140 (or higher) Enterprise Drive

•LTO5 (or higher) Ultrium drive

• 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

Los Angeles London Tokyo

Clients

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Global Namespace

LTFS LTFS LTFS LTFS


IBM Spectrum Scale™ brings it all together

Global Name Space

IBM Spectrum Scale™ replaces SAN-based file systems

� Replaces NTFS, EXT4, JFS2 and other POSIX file systems

� Used by over 200 of the top 500 supercomputers

� No file transfers required between different OS

� Can be used with everything from databases to video streaming

� For x86, POWER andz System servers

� Secure with Data-at-rest encryption

IBM Spectrum Scale™ replaces HDFS and NAS file storage

� Full Hadoop interfaces for Map/Reduce analytics processing

� No transfer or ingest required as the data is already there

� Fully protected with Backup Software

� File-level access support for NFS, CIFS, FTP, SCP and HTTPS

� Supports File Sync-and-Sharevia OwnCloud or Funambol

IBM Spectrum Scale™ offers Object access

� Object-level access based on OpenStack Swift driver and Amazon S3 APIs

IBM Spectrum Scale™supports all media

� Spans flash, disk and tape media

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IBM Software Defined Storage

Data Plane

IBM Software Defined Storage

Control Plane

IBM for Software Defined Storage

Why?• Reduces manual effort to provision storage• Increase flexibility by using Industry-standard

hardware• Can reduce cost of deploying enterprise-class

features for your datacenter

What?• IBM Spectrum Storage™ family, a set of

Software Defined Storage products

How?• Start with virtualizing with IBM Storage

Hypervisors, built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize

• Deploy Spectrum Accelerate for ROBO and Test/Dev environments

• Install Spectrum Scale for your volume, file and object requirements

Scale

Control Protect

IBM ranked #1 in Software Defined Storage with

40% market share in 201435

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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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Senior IT Specialist

IBM System Storage™


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