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To our clients and friends, 2005 has seen compliance issues continue to gain significance within the IT community. However, one critical area that does not receive much attention is how compliance regulations affect nearline and archive storage policies. Specifically, SOX, HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, FDA Part 11 and DOD 5015.2 are the regulations of concern here. This month, we have
a dual venue for providing information about compliance with regulations
that affect storage. Our learning events cover compliance rules for archiving
and how the new IBM TotalStorage DR550 disk archive unit can play a positive
role in compliance initiatives. Al Stuart, IBM’s Chief Strategist
and Business Line Executive, is the main speaker for our June 7th KEY
Webinar, and presides over our three workshops held at IBM office locations
in Glendale, Costa Mesa and Cupertino, CA. The workshops are for you to
roll up your sleeves and walk out of the session with a full understanding
of why and how the DR550 could fit within your specific environment. Our schedule of free Webinars and Workshops for the remainder of 2005 includes:
In July we will be at the OCEAN User Group’s Catch the Wave conference and expo in Irvine, CA. The conference is the largest iSeries conference held on the West Coast and is described at http://www.ocean400.org/TechConf.html. For more about Key's
future activities, you can check the Calendar page on our Web site: http://www.keyinfo.com/Resources/calendar.htm. Yours in success, Pete Elliot Jon Mechling: Fault Tolerance for Windows Applications Key’s April Webinar featured Jon Mechling, Director of Product Marketing at Marathon Technologies in a Webinar titled Affordable Fault Tolerance for Windows Applications. During this Web-based seminar, participants learned how fault tolerance differs from high availability, the key fault and disaster tolerance issues for the Windows environment and which applications are candidates for fault tolerance. Mechling also covered how blade servers work with fault tolerant solutions and how to choose a fault-tolerant solution for Windows applications. Marathon is the leading provider of fault and disaster tolerance solutions for unmodified Windows servers and blades. Mechling discussed achieving complete fault tolerance in the Windows environment for increased business continuity and elimination of the problems normally associated with failover. Mechling illustrated how Marathon FTvirtual Server fault-tolerant software is being used to protect mission-critical Windows applications from faults and failures. To see the rest of this article on Key's April 21 Webinar, click here. Chris Parker, Tech Specialist Extraordinaire We interviewed Chris Parker, who is in his third year at Key as a Technical Service Engineer working out of Key's Woodland Hills, CA, headquarters. INsights: What
are your areas of specialty? INsights: What
certifications do you hold?
INsights: What
kinds of assignments are you currently working on?
INsights: In your
area of specialty, backup/recovery and SANs, what tips or suggested best
practices could you recommend?
INsights: What
crucial concepts do you think should be getting more attention? News at Key :. Lori Bianco Lori Bianco is the
newest employee at Key. She is an IBM Certified Technical Expert on pSeries
and AIX, with over 12 years of open systems experience. At Key, she fills
the role of pSeries Systems Engineer for the Northern California office.
Her area of expertise is architecting and implementing complex pSeries,
SAN and storage solutions, including server consolidation and migration.
“I am extremely dedicated to delivering a positive customer experience
here at Key,” Bianco stated. IBM TotalStorage DS8100 Key has added the
IBM TotalStorage DS8100 SAN storage unit to its IBM-authorized Business
Partner Innovation Center located at the company’s headquarters in
Woodland Hills, CA. IBM’s DS8100 storage series is the replacement
for their popular ESS (SHARK) SANs. The DS8100 in the Center has 3 TB
of fibre-attached disk storage for Key’s clients. The DS8100 is powered
by dual two-way POWER5 processors, four host adapters, 64 15K RPM high-performance
drives that can run RAID5 or 10. For more information about these offers from Key, contact your Key representative or Allen Shahdadi at ashahdadi@keyinfo.com. Blade Server Evaluation Server Consolidation
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Education Reader Feedback :. We value your ideas and comments. Please send your thoughts to Pete Elliot at pelliot@keyinfo.com or call him at 1.818.737.2804. Publisher :. Key Information Systems,
Inc. (http://www.keyinfo.com), has
been a Premier Business Partner with IBM for five years, and is headquartered
in Woodland Hills, CA. Founded in 1995, the company provides system integration
services, corporate infrastructure architecture for business continuity,
storage, and e-business solutions. Key is a leading provider of IBM eServer
solutions for the i5 / iSeries, p5 / pSeries, xSeries and OpenPower servers.
Operating systems supported include i5/OS, OS/400, AIX, Unix, NT, and
Linux operating system platforms. IBM storage products include IBM TotalStorage
DS8100 SAN, DR550, FAStT, BladeCenter, iSCSI, LTO tape solutions, Tivoli,
plus TSRM for storage virtualization and management. High availability
and fault tolerant solutions are backed up with a complete range of professional
services including education, critical assessments, installation, maintenance
and financing. All these computer resources are available at Key's Business
Partner Innovation Center at 22120 Clarendon Street, Suite 100, Woodland
Hills, CA 91367, USA. For more information, visit the company online,
or call 1.877.442.3249, or email info@keyinfo.com.
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