OVERVIEW
I was the lead designer that was tasked to create an extension for IBM Spectrum Protect in vSphere.
The project had two successful releases in 2Q and 4Q
The work resulted in two design patents
Most importantly, the end users were very happy with this work
WHAT IS VSPHERE?
WHAT IS SPECTRUM PROTECT?
WHAT EXACTLY DID I WORK ON?
If you use a MacBook, at some point you may have ran a Time Machine backup (I will adjust this analogy to Windows on request). It is a pretty simple process, you take an external hard drive, plug it in, and once you configure some initial settings the back up begins and all your data is now copied on your hard drive. Every time you plug in the hard drive, it makes a copy of any new changes and will continue to do so until you run out of space and you would need a new hard drive.
Pretend for a moment there is a giant call center with 10,000 employees that would each need their own MacBook. Then you would need a substantial staff to deploy the proper software, run updates, and back them up. What vSphere does is allow a company to use much cheaper hardware but you sign into a much more powerful machine that is 'virtualized' and the employee can not tell the difference. These virtual machines can be created, updated and maintained in bulk and only a few administrators are needed to maintain a massive environment. However vSphere does not handle backups and that is where Spectrum Protect comes in, we are the Time Machine backup.
