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EMC news

Top Analyst Firm Recognizes EMC with Positive Rating in MarketScope Report for E-Discovery
Mon, 01 Feb 2010
EMC SourceOne and Acquisition of Kazeon Revolutionizes EMC’s Position in E-Discovery Market; Primed to Lead in Information Governance


EMC Awarded Major U.S. State and Local Government Purchasing Agreement by WSCA/NASPO
Thu, 28 Jan 2010
Agreement Underscores EMC's Continued Commitment to U.S. State and Local Government Customers


EMC Recognized for Its Corporate Governance Practices
Wed, 27 Jan 2010
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that EMC and its Board of Directors have received numerous recognitions in 2009 for their commitment to good corporate governance.


HDS Hu Yoshida Blog

The Use of Switches in Storage Systems
Mon, 08 Feb 2010
 Hitachi Data Systems was the first vendor to deliver a switch based storage  architecture over ten years ago. Recently we are starting to see storage vendors deliver storage systems that include a switch in their architecture. However, the new switch architectures are designed for loose coupling  of modular storage nodes while the Hitachi architecture is designed for [...]


What is the role of cache in a virtual data center environment?
Thu, 04 Feb 2010
I recently spoke to two storage analysts about the effect of server virtualization on storage resources. Both agreed that the effect of virtual machines will be to increase the I/O workload coming from the VM hardware platform by the number of VMs that are virtualized and that the resulting I/O would be very random.   They agreed that [...]


If I am doing more with less people and disk are getting cheaper, why are my costs increasing?
Mon, 01 Feb 2010
IT costs are increasing about 7 to 8 % per year. But when you look at industry spend on storage hardware that spend has been flat for many years, primarily due to Moore’s law. Storage densities continue to double about every 18 months. So where are we spending our IT budget? Most customers will agree [...]


NetApp News

NetApp Hosts Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results Teleconference and Webcast
Thu, 04 Feb 2010

Weta Digital and NetApp Bring Avatar to Life
Wed, 03 Feb 2010
NetApp Helps Reduce Weta's Data Management Overhead by 95% and Increase Storage Price-to-Performance Ratio By 40%


NetApp Appoints Christine Heckart Chief Marketing Officer
Tue, 02 Feb 2010

Fujitsu News

Lascon Site News

Lascon latest updates

IBM SVC data updated December 2009

VSAM tuning Tips from CPSI software added November 2009

ICF Catalog sizing information added September 2009

SAN switch information added July 2009

EMC V-MAX added to the Enterprise Storage page May 2009

IBM Flashcopy information updated May 2009

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Latest IBM RedBooks

IBM System Storage TS7650 and TS7650G with ProtecTIER
Mon, 8 Feb 2010
Draft Redbook, last updated: Mon, 8 Feb 2010

- Understand the concepts of data De-duplication
- Learn about Native Replication and Grid Manager
- Reduce your storage hardware requirements

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM solution for Data De-duplication, the IBM System Storage ProtecTIER TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway and ProtecTIER TS7650 De-Duplication Appliance.


IBM Midrange System Storage Implementation and Best Practices Guide
Mon, 8 Feb 2010
Draft Redbook, last updated: Mon, 8 Feb 2010

- Managing and using the Midrange System storage with SVC
- Advanced configuration and performance tuning
- Performance measurement using TPC for Disk

This book represents a compilation of best practices for deploying and configuring IBM midrange system storage servers which include the DS4000 and the DS5000 family of products.


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