Servers & Storage

Senior Managing Consultant, Storage, SDS and Infrastructure Architecture and Delivery

Don has been in the IT industry since 1980 with several different companies before coming to IBM in 2005, where he has held different levels of responsibility within IBM Systems Lab Services in a customer-facing role.

Articles by Donald

Spectrum Scale, SDI and my love of motorcycles

The hardware that IBM Spectrum Scale runs on can be thought of as the engine of a motorcycle.

Health checks: You get them, so why not your storage?

As an IT leader, you should be asking the question, “How healthy is my storage?”

Infrastructure for AI: Why storage matters

Perhaps your organization has recently decided to purchase compute nodes and get started with artificial intelligence (AI). There are many aspects of your IT infrastructure and technology landscape to scrutinize as you prepare for AI workloads — ...

Residency services: Empowering your IT storage staff

Have you ever been in this situation? You come into a new position in a new company, with new staff, and you find out that no one has enough knowledge to completely manage the primary storage system. What do you do? Hire someone? Train everyone? Hope...

Spectrum Scale, SDI and motorcycles: Scale up, scale out!

You might wonder if I’ve completely gone off the rails when I mention my passion for motorcycle riding in the same breath as Spectrum Scale and software-defined infrastructure (SDI). Trust me, I’ll make a case for why I put them together. In the ...