IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery V6.2 offers terabyte pricing and a feature-rich suite of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager products

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Highlights:

Added 10GbE iSCSI support
Support for up to nine IBM Storiwize V7000 expansion Enclosures
One Storwize V7000 can now manage up to 32PB of storage
Intermixing support of SAS, Nearline SAS and solid-state drives (SSD)
VMware vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) support (Full copy, block zeroing and HW assisted locking)
Interoperability support added for HP StorageWorks P9500, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620 and EMC VNX models.

Real-time performance monitoring now gathers following system level statistics
- CPU util
- Port util and IO rates
- Volume and MDisk I/O rates
- Bandwidth
- Latency
Samping rate can be as low as 5 secs. Historical data is kept for five minutes. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can capture more detailed performance information and analyze trends.

Plug-In for VMware vCenter
VMware administrators can monitor and manager Storwize V7000 volumes from VMware.

FlashCopy target as Remote Copy  source

Revised licensing rules for Remote Mirroring Software

Availability dates for Storwize V7000 Software V6.2.0 June 10, 2011 and VMware vCenter Plug-In June 30, 2011.

TSM 6.2 supports file and image level backup using VMware vStorage APIs.

TSM for Virtual Environments
- Changed Block tracking makes possible to do incremental backups (block level).
- Instant restore and file level restore just as fast and easy as in TSM Fastback
- iSCSI target interface to expose restore data for user restores
- Automatically identify new Virtual Machines
- Supports Microsoft VSS
- You can do file, volume, image level recovery from single-pass backup
- Offloads backup load from virtual machines to vStorage backup servers. vStorage backup server can be virtual server.

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National Semiconductor requirements

Creditibility – mentioned by Gartner

Functional requirements
- Software distribution and patching
- HW & SW inventory
- Softtware Asset Management

Why Desktop Architech loves BigFix
Much easier to package
- Don’t need to manually package Adobe updates
- Same package for auto & manual install
Smarter deployments
- can deploy only if IE is closed
Automatically uninstall unwanted SW
- Example: McAfee add-on to Flash install
Better reporting

Why IT Manager loves BigFix
- No complaints from Senior Mgmt

How BigFix exceeded expectations
- Light infrastructure
- Scheduling capabilities
- Easy to package
- “Smart” deployments
- Better reporting
- Good Support

BigFix is now Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM)

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TSM backups of total 1.4PB from 1560 Servers

5 TSM servers
- 3 Oklahoma City
- 2 Fort Worth

4 Tabe libraries total 34 LTO drives
- 2 Oklahoma City
- 2 Fort Worth

1 80TB XIV in OKC

Quote “XIV is great for TSM”

How TSM reduces managed data in Chesapeake environment
- Incremental Forever
- Compression
- Deduplication at server or client

Other ways to reduce
- Keep fewer backups
- Dont backup

Dedupe what makes sence

Full backups
- DB
- Exchange
- VMware

Incremental Forevers backups
- OS and system state

Other considerations
- Data change rate
- Retention
- Restore reqirements

Selected Oracle backups to dedupe
- Backups are kept fo 2 weeks
- Dedupe at TSM server side

Selected Oracle DB’s about 1TB per day
- RMAN and TDP with compression
- 75% dedupe

350 Windows servers with TSM 6.2 client with client compression
- C-drive and system state
- 5.4TB compresed incremental forever data managed
- After client dedupe -> 2.1TB -> 62% reduction

Cost when not deduping
- Disk space
- Tapes -> onsite and offsite
- Lbrary ceels and tape drives needed

Costs when deduping
- Additional disk space
- Savings -> Less tape -> offsite
- Savings -> Fewer library cells, tape drives
- Savings -> Dedupe is included with TSM (every edition)

AIX used in TSM servers no performance issues with TSM Server side deduplication

Dedupe data that helps meet our Goal. It should:
- Reduce managed space
- Ectend the use of existing HW resources
- Meet and improve restore requirements
- Simpify
- Dedupe is “free”, no additional cost. Comes with TSM

Chesepeake  uses capacity based pricing model with TSM. Savings in not needing to count PVUs and took back control of backup costs. Online data grows lke crazy but backup costs are under control and growth is under control by utilizing TSM capabilities.

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• Incremental forever backups
• Deduplication
• Advanced Virtual Machine backups (agentless VM backups)
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

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You can Electronic Arts games for Nokia phones for free. Check from Ovi Store (Games may not be available in all markets).

Nokia Bubbles in cool and efficient way to unlock your phone and initiate some of the following actions:

• Unlock the phone
• View new messages
• View/Respond to missed calls
• Control the music player
• Control the FM radio
• Change profile (profile timing also supported)
• Call/Message your three best friends
• Activate the backlight to use as a flashlight
• Show your current location using Ovi Maps
• Change the background of the Bubbles screen
• Display when battery needs charging
• Display statistics about bubble speed and distance (just for fun)

Nokia Bubbles experimental prototype (Nokia Beta Labs)

Android dual-boot could make Nokia N900 jack of two trades — Engadget