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IBM TotalStorage SAN File System as an Infrastructure for Multimedia Servers

Storage area networks SANs provides an ideal infrastructure to build a multimedia serving environment, but requires additional support layers to effectively exploit the SAN with multiple applications in heterogeneous environments. One such layer is the file system. IBM TotalStorage SAN File System simplifies file and data management in SANs by...

Tags: Multimedia, File System, SAN, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., IBM TotalStorage SAN File System, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2005-10-27

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CINECA Powers Up High-Performance Virtualized Storage With IBM

CINECA is the largest High-Performance Computing HPC centre in Italy, and one of the most important worldwide. The center wanted to provide high-performance storage services to academic and commercial users; support large data volumes and multiple file systems; keep management costs low and flexibility high; and accelerate the flow of...

Tags: High-performance, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., CINECA, Storage, Leadership, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2006-10-18

Subsystem Device Driver Management 1.6.0.1 (Windows)

Subsystem Device Driver Management: The Subsystem Device Driver is a pseudo device driver designed to support the multipath configuration environments in the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, the IBM TotalStorage DS Family, the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, and the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller for Cisco MDS 9000. It...

Tags: Device Driver, Microsoft Windows, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-01-25

The Next Step Forward in Storage Virtualization: IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) Come Together

IBM has taken the next step in storage virtualization by merging the best in file system performance, scalability and flexibility. IBM has integrated key features of IBM TotalStorage SAN File System SFS into IBM General Parallel File System GPFS. The goal of this paper is to introduce GPFS, at a...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, File System, SAN, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-02-01

CommuniGate Pro With IBM TotalStorage SAN File System Best Practices

This paper discusses a series of tests that were run on a messaging solution using CommuniGate Pro and IBM TotalStorage SAN File System. This testing was done to model a medium-sized configuration based on the load expected by a mid-to-large-sized university with 45,000 accounts and to identify potential best practices...

Tags: Messaging, Best Practice, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Management, Utility Computing, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Storage, Hardware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-08-01

IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Considerations for SAS 9 on the IBM eServer p590: Results and Findings of Disk Layout Testing

This paper presents the storage findings and recommendations for SAS 9.1 with IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk arrays formerly known as FAStT. IBM and SAS team members tested SAS 9.1 at the IBM Beaverton Test Labs. SAS ETL Test Suite 1.4 was used for the test workload generator. The test environment...

Tags: Disk, IBM eServer, SAS Institute, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-09-22

IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC): "A Building-Block Approach With DS4000 Storage"

The IBM SVC SAN Volume Controller scales far beyond any single large storage subsystem, so an overall storage methodology should be employed to manage the storage at the virtual layer. A virtual storage strategy is unique to each install and is developed and deployed by understanding the IBM SAN Volume...

Tags: IBM Corp., Storage Strategy, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-01

Automated Storage Provisioning for Windows Using TotalStorage Productivity Center and Tivoli Provisioning Manager

The provisioning of SAN attached storage capacity to a server can be a time consuming and cumbersome process. The task requires skilled storage administrators. However, there is a solution to this through automation. This paper looks at how an automated storage provisioning solution can be realized for a Windows environment...

Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Storage Provisioning, Provisioning, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Storage Capacity, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-04-01

Using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk to Monitor the SVC

The IBM TotalStorage strategy addresses some of the most pressing needs currently facing Chief Information Officers CIOs and IT managers. As part of its strategy, IBM intends to deliver industry-leading technologies that will help dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership TCO for storage and help turn fixed costs into...

Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Monitor, Disk, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., IBM TotalStorage Strategy, Roi/Tco, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Management

White papers 2005-07-21

IBM and Tectrade Help Winterthur Life UK Meet Storage Demands

Winterthur Life UK wanted to increase capacity and scalability of mainframe storage; improve performance and flexibility of storage for Microsoft Windows-based systems; and simplify storage management and enable faster response to new business requirements. Worked with IBM Business Partner Tectrade to implement an IBM TotalStorage DS8100 storage system, with IBM...

Tags: IBM Corp., Tectrade, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2007-05-09

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Performance Analysis Using TotalStorage Productivity Center

This paper presents a case study for performance analysis of virtual storage provided by the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller. The case study will present to initial client environment problem, the methods used to collect data, analyze the data, then finally a method to interpret the data and provide...

Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Performance, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-08-21

FNO Improves Patient Care With a PACS Solution From Agfa and IBM

Fakultni Nemocnice Olomouc FNO is one of the leading teaching hospitals in the Czech Republic. Fakultni Nemocnice Olomouc needed to move entirely to a digital system for storing, managing and distributing medical images; build a robust, scalable infrastructure capable of managing images for many years. FNO selected and implemented an...

Tags: Patient, Pacs, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Agfa-Gavaert Group, FNO, Fakultni Nemocnice Olomouc, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

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Bavarian Radio Station Switches to Digital Audio Archiving With IBM

The Bayerischer Rundfunk is the state-owned radio and TV broadcaster of the German Federal State of Bavaria. To move from analogue carriers to digital audio archiving music and the spoken word, automated search and retrieval of music files and pre-recorded spoken word programmes, the Bayerische Rundfunk worked with IBM to...

Tags: Digital Audio, IBM Corp., Bayerischer Rundfunk, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Case studies 2006-03-06

Vogele Secures Its Systems Ready for 50 More Years of Retail Success

Founded in 1955 and headquartered in Pfaffikon, Switzerland, Charles Vogele Group Vogele operates 788 clothing retail stores in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. The company wanted to increase security of vital business data; ensure very high availability for retail support systems; improve disaster-recovery capabilities. The company migrated to...

Tags: Switzerland, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Vogele, Disaster Recovery, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Data Management, Storage, Hardware

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IBM System Storage and TotalStorage Attached Tape Subsystem Network Connectivity and Security

The IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library, and IBM TotalStorage 3494 Library family includes several external interfaces not directly associated with data paths. Rather, those interfaces are associated with library control, service, and status information. These interfaces support customer interaction and / or feedback, as well as attachment to IBM...

Tags: Network, Network Connectivity, IBM Corp., Remote Administration, Storage Management, Security, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-02-01

Oracle 10g R2 RAC Implementation With SLES 10 Linux, IBM BladeCenter and IBM TotalStorage

The purpose of this paper is to assist those who are implementing Oracle Real Application Clusters on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 running on IBM BladeCenter servers and IBM TotalStorage disk storage systems. The paper describes activities needed to prepare for and successfully install SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 64-bit...

Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM eServer BladeCenter, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Application Server 10g, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Open Source, Blade Servers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-12-01

Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director

IBM Director Version 5.10 added support for managing the IBM TotalStorage DS300 iSCSI and DS400 Fibre storage subsystems as SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification storage devices. SMI-S is a standard developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA for storage devices. The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative SMI was created to...

Tags: Storage Management, IBM Director, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., SMI-S, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-09-26

Configuring and Using TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) to Collect and Report SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Data

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data is a premier Java and Web-based solution designed to help to identify, evaluate, control, and predict the enterprise storage management needs. This paper provides detail step-by-step instructions to configure TotalStorage Productivity Center to collect SVC data, to utilize TPC GUI to review out-of-box TPC...

Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-12-01

Entry SAN Switches: SAN16M-2 Implementation

This paper details the basic installation and configuration of an entry-level SAN with the IBM TotalStorage SAN16M-2 Express Model fabric switch. In less complex SAN environments, with fewer servers and storage arrays, single switch or dual cascaded switches offer redundancy and performance with minimal administration and lower cost than larger...

Tags: SAN, Server, IBM Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2006-05-09

Split Mirror Backup/Recovery Solution With the IBM TotalStorage Server DS6800

This white paper explains the use of an IBM TotalStorage DS6800 storage server as an essential component of advanced infrastructure solutions, such as one implementing a High Availability Split Mirror Backup / Recovery solution SMBR for SAP R/3 on the Oracle RDBMS and the AIX operating system environments. It sets...

Tags: Environment, SAP AG, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Management, Utility Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Storage, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software

White papers 2005-06-24