Catch yourself up to speed on IBM's HT Chassis.  This BladeCenter has an antire host of unique features and benfits suited to meet your client's data center needs. 

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/chassis/bladeht/

Alta is proud to announce our new Warehouse Manager: Casey McBride

Casey has extensive experience with IBM Tape Library, Total Storage, Power Series and xSeries. His highly advanced skill-set has also proven integral to the health of Alta's data center with Cisco, Sun, HP, and Dell equipment as well as IBM. He is also CompTIA Network Certified, CompTIA Security Certified, CompTIA A+ Certified, and a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) among other designations. We are extremely excited to have Casey assume this new role with Alta.

Rest assured that when you trust Alta Technologies to manage your configurations, you have an industry expert and qualified team preparing your order. We are committed to providing the level of support and quality that you desire and deserve.

"Hewlett-Packard (HP) says it will address the I/O bottleneck created by internal and external storage in its next generation of ProLiant servers, boosting performance by up to 50% for popular applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and streaming video.

HP to combine printer and PC divisions

HP said in two separate blog posts that its upcoming ProLiant Gen8 server line will offer solid-state drives (SSDs) in combination with a data caching algorithm that it calls Dynamic Workload Acceleration .

The HP ProLiant servers include a 6Gbps embedded SAS controller that movse from using SAS 15,000rpm hard drives to SAS-based SSDs. The new controller offers six times the performance of previous generation controllers. DRAM cache capacity is also being doubled on the servers..."

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With over 4,000 unique titles and 83,000,000 downloads, IBM RedBooks are a huge resource for tutorials or technical overviews.  If you are seeking out information on a machine which may be EOL or you have been searching for a description of the SAN array you desire to configure, there are several helpful resources available through IBM's RedBooks.  Feel free to check out the link and search for yourself!

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

At Alta - we strive to provide the Ultimate Value through our excellent pricing, superior service levels, and support through tools and resources such as IBM RedBooks.  Our goal is to help you support your clients in the best way possible, namely through invaluable support and deep pricing discounts. 

I found this article on IBM's developerWorks site and thought it was worth sharing.  There are some good details here on storage analytics.  For the full article, feel free to click on the link below.

2012 Storage Trends

"Every year I publish a set of storage trends that I believe most clients IT shops can take advantage of, and where technologies exist to help resolve the underlying issue in the IT environment.  Here are my thoughts for 2012...  

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Anyone who has ever utilized a Blade Center whether AIX blades or HS series understands that there can be quirks when configuring switches, updating firmware, or other Blade Center maintenance. 

This developerWorks forum will often have answers for such issues we are all facing.  Responses from IBM engineers are posted here with other tips. 

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/index.html

Good luck!

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