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EMC news

Corporate Responsibility Magazine Ranks EMC Among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
EMC is One of Only Five IT Companies to Break Into Top 20


Corporate Responsibility Magazine Ranks EMC Among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
EMC is One of Only Five IT Companies to Break Into Top 20


EMC Leads Storage Software Market for 8th Consecutive Year
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, led the worldwide storage software market in total revenue for the eighth consecutive year in 2009, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, March 2010.


HDS Hu Yoshida Blog

What is the difference between Internal and external tiers of storage
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Paula Sequeira, posted This comment on my post on New Considerations for Tiered Storage. “EMC says in the market that the best architecture of Tiered Storage is “in a box”. HITACHI says that TIERED STORAGE can be with tier 2 or 3 “virtualized”, midrange behind enterprise storage. What is your opinion about that? What are the advantages of [...]


Remote Service can speed storage virtualization implementation
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Hitachi Data Systems has been very successful selling the benefits of Storage Virtualization and Dynamic Provisioning. An independent, third party research report indicates that Hitachi Data Systems customers have seen impressive returns on the use of storage virtualization of their storage assets. Seventy-eight percent of the customers surveyed reported seeing payback on their investment in [...]


Transition from Sun to Oracle
Fri, 05 Mar 2010
This week we shared with our partners that Oracle and HDS will not renew the current distribution agreement for our Enterprise Storage platform that we had with Sun Microsystems prior to the Oracle acquisition. That agreement expires on March 31. We have enjoyed a very good relationship with Sun over the past nine years and [...]


NetApp News

The College of Saint Rose Passes the Grade with NetApp Virtualization Solutions
Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Julie Parrish and Todd Palmer of NetApp Recognized as Channel Chiefs by Everything Channel's CRN
Wed, 03 Mar 2010

NetApp Unveils New Solutions for Service Providers to Deliver Compelling Cloud Services for Enterprise IT
Tue, 02 Mar 2010
NetApp Helps Service Providers Differentiate Their Service Offerings, Accelerate Time to Market, and Reduce Costs


Fujitsu News

Lascon Site News

Lascon latest updates

SVC zoning data updated March 2010

SVC config data updated February 2010

Tape Drive Types data updated February 2010

IBM SVC data updated December 2009

VSAM tuning Tips from CPSI software added November 2009

Lasconet latest updates

Monday March 8 2010
tirumal13 posted a comment in discussion item Deleting old nodes
i think as far as that particular node contains data you can not remove the node,all the files should get expired then only u can delete that node.
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Latest IBM RedBooks

IBM System Storage N series Hardware Reference
Sat, 13 Mar 2010
Draft Redpaper, last updated: Sat, 13 Mar 2010

- Supported Expansion Units
- Storage Capacities
- Configuration Comparisons

This IBM redbooks publication will give a reference to IBM System Storage N series Hardware and most of it's associated Hardware features at the time of publication.


ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 3
Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Redbook, published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010

- DFSMS, Data set basics, SMS
- Storage management software and hardware
- Catalogs, VSAM, DFSMStvs

The ABCs of z/OS® System Programming is a thirteen-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture.


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