Hi,<div> I guess some people on the list might know who I am, my name is Martin Glassborow and I look after the Broadcast Storage Team at Sky; we have a variety of storage technologies but the core of our file-based workflow (misnamed Tapeless) is GPFS and TSM but we don't use the ILM functionality; the data movement is all controlled by the application.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But I'm also the storage blogger more commonly known as 'Storagebod' (<a href="http://www.storagebod.com">http://www.storagebod.com</a>). I've had involvement with GPFS before it was GPFS and it's now interesting to see it begin to push into areas of use which could almost be called mainstream.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Like many, I believe that GPFS is probably IBM's best kept secret and it's about time it was shown some real love and respect; I constantly tell some of my peers out in the general IT market that they need GPFS; it'll solve a huge number of their problems and that it trashes pretty every other cluster file-system out there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I also organise a non-regular event known as #storagebeers; it tends to be in central London, although there are now #storagebeers all over the globe; it's a chance for storage folk to get together, drink beer and swap tall tales! It's vendor neutral and a sales-free zone; although vendors are welcome and they are welcome to buy beers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So that's me....</div><div><br></div><div>Martin</div>