Storage Management

Baxter International Inc. (Baxter, www.baxter.com) is a global healthcare company, manufacturing medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products. At Baxter, multiple production systems, each with isolated, local data storage requirements, were proving hard to manage and costly to maintain. Working with IBM Business Partner REAL Solutions (REAL, www.realsolutionsuk.com), Baxter selected a Storage Area Network (SAN) based on two IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) systems, providing up to 22TB of storage for all connected server platforms, regardless of type or vendor. tech news

HVB Bank Biochim (www.biochim.com/en) is the fourth largest bank in Bulgaria in terms of assets. When HVB Bank Biochim's rapid growth began to impact on the performance of its core banking systems, the bank looked to IBM for a new solution. Kirchman worked with IBM Bulgaria to size a new solution for HVB Bank Biochim, resulting in the implementation of a new IBM eServer z800, and the migration of existing systems to z/OS. They migrated legacy mainframe systems to z/OS on a new IBM eServer zSeries 800, added a second z800 as backup, implemented two IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server 800 systems. tech news

The Central Bucks School District (CBSD) manages some 25 elementary, middle and high schools in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. To keep up with changing technology and enrich the quality of education that it offers to students, CBSD sought to update its systems and augment its processes. In 2001, CBSD signed a deal to lease a private fiber-optic network that would connect all the sites around the district to the administration center, and more specifically to a new network operations center that was under construction at the time. In addition to the new server and storage solution, CBSD implemented a new voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) system. tech news

Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, LLP is one of Connecticut's largest law firms. Tyler Cooper & Alcorn managers wanted to continue to expand, while allowing its partners to do what they do best - practice law. They switched from a Microsoft platform to a tightly integrated legal software suite (LMS V) from Rippe & Kingston that runs on all IBM middleware (IBM WebSphere, Lotus Domino, and IBM DB2 Universal Database) using the IBM eServer iSeries. This allows them to team in ways that were not possible before, not to mention cost and resource reductions and virus and failsafe protection. tech news

Fibre Channel based SANs provide a flexible way of connecting storage devices and hosts over a shared network. Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) exploits the bandwidth and connectivity to provide LAN-Free backup and library sharing capabilities using shared tape devices over the SAN. However, the building of SANs to support the use of shared tape devices must take into account a number of considerations specific to the use of tape. These are required to ensure that the addition of new storage devices, or that the removal or failure of existing devices on the SAN does not result in TSM operational failures when using shared tape devices. tech news