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Lascon Storage was founded in 2000 and provides hints and tips on how to manage your data, strategic advice, news items and a discussion forum. A lot of this advice is about smarter, cheaper ways of working without compromising service. That is more important than ever in these recessive times.
The Lasconet forum was established in August 2008 as an experiment, and with 198 members now, it can safely be called a success. Work is now underway to properly integrate it with the rest of the site.
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EMC news
EMC Honored by Microsoft as 2009 Notes Transition Partner of the Year
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Leading Analyst Firm Positions EMC Document Sciences a Strong Performer in Document Output for Customer Communications Management Market
Tue, 30 Jun 2009
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Forrester Research has positioned the EMC® Document Sciences® xPression® software suite as a Strong Performer and has been given the highest score for current offering overall in its June 2009 report, “The Forrester Wave™: Document Output for Customer Communications Management (DOCCM), Q2 2009.” The report states that “xPression is well-positioned for a complete DOCCM enterprise platform, with an open architecture-based on Java and Web Services.”
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Northern Europe's Leading Airline Group Selects RSA® Data Loss Prevention Suite to Secure its Information Assets
Tue, 30 Jun 2009
RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced that SAS Group, the leading airline group in Northern Europe, has selected the RSA® Data Loss Prevention Suite to help discover and secure sensitive information that resides within the SAS IT environment.
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HDS Hu Yoshida Blog
AMS - Not Your Mother’s Modular Storage!
Mon, 29 Jun 2009
Note: This post was updated on 6/30/09.
This morning Hitachi Data Systems announced some new enhancements to the AMS 2000 modular storage platform. These new enhancements include Dynamic Provisioning, Dense Expansion Trays, AMS 2500DC for NEBS compliance, 8Gbs FC storage ports, and security enhancements. Since we began shipping the AMS 2000 platform in October of [...]
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How do you thin provision and who needs to know?
Tue, 23 Jun 2009
USP V users are finding it easy to free up 30% to 40 % of existing storage capacity with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning. The best part is that they can convert their current “fat”, over allocated, volumes to thin provisioned volumes with, no down time to do migration, no rezoning of the SAN, and little or no [...]
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Free Assessment, Free Capacity License, Risk Free Services
Wed, 17 Jun 2009
Today, Hitachi Data Systems announced a new service offering called Storage Reclamation Services to help users reclaim allocated but unused space. This service uses a feature of our Dynamic Provisioning product called, Zero Page Reclaim. Zero Page Reclaim is used after a migration or restore of a normal volume into a Dynamic Provisioning pool where [...]
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NetApp News
Fujitsu News
Fujitsu to Exhibit Cutting-Edge Mobile Solutions Alongside Emerging Technology Products at 2008 CES
07 Jan 2008 20:0
Fujitsu announced today that they will demonstrate several industry-leading storage, biometric, document imaging, notebook and Tablet PC, and video broadcasting products at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas. The following products are available for demonstration.
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Lorne Wilson of Fujitsu Recognized as a Leading Channel Chief by CMP Channel's CRN
25 Feb 2008 20:0
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc, a leading supplier of innovative computer products including hard disk drives (HDD), peripherals, broadcast video products and biometric security solutions, today announced that Lorne Wilson has been named a 2008 Channel Chief by CRN, the flagship publication of CMP Channel, the No. 1 destination for technology vendors and marketers looking to reach the $373 billion Solution Provider channel. CRN Channel Chiefs are recognized as influential executives who consistently defend, promote and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.
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Fujitsu to Release 2.5" Half-Terabyte Hard Disk Drive
25 Feb 2008 20:0
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., a leading supplier of innovative computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security solutions, today announced the release of its 2.5” 500GB¹ 4200RPM SATA hard disk drive (HDD), the fourth-generation high capacity 4200RPM SATA drive. The MHZ2 BT series was designed in response to the growing need for HDDs in the 2.5” form factor that can support high volume storage for products such as desktop PCs, notebooks, digital video recorders (DVR), and external hard drives.
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Lasconet latest updates
Thursday July 2 2009
Jim posted a comment in discussion item Querying TSM
The best way to check out a management class, in my opinion, is just to look at it through the admin GUI in the server. Each policy set will have a default management class with retention rules. If you are setting extra management classes t...
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Tuesday June 30 2009
H posted a comment in discussion item 44
How can I use a TSM SQL script to audit a management class and it data retention
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Friday June 19 2009
Jim posted a comment in discussion item MSSQL backups
Not sure what you are after here. Do you mean, can you run an MSSQL backup by scheduling MSSQL commands directly from TSM?AFAIK, the TSM MSSQL TDP only works by scheduling a command to execute a windows batch file, and that file contains th...
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Thursday June 18 2009
gemma posted a comment in discussion item 43
I've been reading some articles on your website about MSSQL backups, and it is all 'easy to understand'. There is only one question that I can't see an answer for: is it possible to perform backups to a TDP node without using the xp_cmdshell?
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Saturday June 13 2009
Jim posted a comment in discussion item Managing DFSMS
I can think of two ways this can happen, I'm sure there's moreYou could end up with uncatalogued datasets after batch failures. A reasonably common problem is restore failures on multi-volume datasets which leaves parts of uncatalogued da...
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Friday June 12 2009
H posted a comment in discussion item Managing DFSMS
On a similar topic, SMS insists that all datasets on an SMS managed disk must be catalogued. Why them do I have to run FDReports occasionally to find uncatalogued datasets and delete them? Surely they should never get there?
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Thursday June 11 2009
Jim posted a comment in discussion item Managing DFSMS
Hi DarranYou run FDR report in batch. A typical job looks like this this//SYSJA1 JOB (CSD),CLASS=A, // MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1) //* //REPORT EXEC PGM=FDREPORT,REGION=0M //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.fdr.loadlib //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSPUNCH DD SYSOUT=* //ABRMAP DD SYSOUT=* //ABRSUM DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * XSELECT VOL=*,VLSMSTAT=NONE REPORT FIELD=(VOL,STORGRP,VLSMSTAT) PRINT Now if you are creating your non-SMS files using FDRCOPY, you can use the BYPASSSMS,BYPASSACS parameters to avoid the ACS routines forcing your file to be SMS managed ...
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Thursday June 11 2009
darran posted a comment in discussion item Managing DFSMS
Hi Jim, I am a storage administrator :-) though maybe not fully up to mainframe speeds. We do have FDR products on site. Can you give me an example of how to run an FDR report?
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Latest IBM RedBooks
SAN Storage Performance Management Using TotalStorage Productivity Center
Tue, 30 Jun 2009
Redbook, published: Tue, 30 Jun 2009
- Customize your TPC environment for performance management
- Review standard performance reports at Disk and Fabric layer
- Identify essential metrics and learn Rules of Thumb
TotalStorage® Productivity Center is an ideal tool for performing storage management reporting, because it uses industry standards for cross vendor compliance, and it can provide reports based on views from all application servers, all Fibre Channel fabric devices, and storage subsystems from different vendors, both physical and virtual.
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Deployment Guide Series: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
Thu, 25 Jun 2009
Redbook, published: Thu, 25 Jun 2009
- Learn the functions and reporting capabilities of TPC for Data
- Install on and configure supported platforms
- Includes planning and deployment information
IBM® TotalStorage® Productivity Center for Data (Data Manager) is a comprehensive file and capacity management solution for heterogeneous storage environments.
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