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As the tuition fee row escalates and disgruntled universities rage about underfunding and restrictions on student intake, it's hardly surprising that many school leavers are turning their backs on Britain.
Of the 660,000 hopefuls applying to British universities last year, 200,000 failed to secure a place. Aside from the shortage of places, there is now the added problem of the huge hike in tuition fees making further education impossible for many unless they want to be saddled with the albatross of debt for the rest of their lives.
Enter the white knights of Europe, otherwise known as those universities offering degree courses that are taught in English. Many of these institutions have significant government funding and superb facilities and here's the good bit, the fees are miniscule compared with the UK and some even offer foreign students grants and allowances.
In the last few months several people have contacted me from the UK regarding a university in Marbella in southern Spain. When I received the first call from a lawyer enquiring on behalf of his teenage daughter I thought he must have lost his marbles. But no. Marbella University not only exists but is witnessing a huge surge in applications from UK students thanks to the furore engulfing our own higher education institutions. It's not just that the fees are cheaper- €10,500 per year- but that it welcomes UK students with open arms, teaching them in their own language and of course offering them the added incentive of an education under the sun.
It's the same in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, France, Sweden and Denmark. Aside from significantly reduced fees, many universities are offering degrees taught in English while at the same time encouraging students to become fluent in another language. The view of these establishments is that those young Britons returning home with an international degree will stand a better chance of finding a job, having not only absorbed another culture, but having learned another language in a wholly new environment.
When Maastricht University in the Netherlands is charging a mere €1,672 in annual tuition fees and others such as Groningen University demand less than a third of the fees of the UK, it's hardly surprising that British students are on the move.
The potential exodus of thousands of British students to European, and also American universities, may be music to the ears of university minister, David Willetts but in the future when those same bright sparks choose to shun Britain for a foreign country more loyal to their interests, he might just rue the day.
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Armanti Edwards is a gay.
i know RIGHT. mad ppl poo talking armanti AND e. brown saying they were wastes of draft picks. as john gruden said during the game, hes still getting used to the WR/Kick Return position. Hes been a qb for the past 4 years, but like they said, come mid season when he starts to turn it on, hes gonna be balliiiinnnn. glad we have him anyways, we could use him for nething...we know he can def throw the ball
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He can run, dodge, dash, & probably kick your ass if he wanted to. Quit being pussies:mad:
Sounds like he would make a hell of a dodgeball player. Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge.
Now I remember why I grew tired of us drafting local players, because suddenly in '02 we were the UNC Panthers, now this year we're the ASU Panthers...
haha, ok ok. I'll admit I overreacted, acting like a drama queen who's got a stick up her ass. The guy actually is very good, just not used to all this pressure & hype. Fox probably drafted him so high b/c of the skills & potential he features. He WILL take a while to become more professional, just like Smith (took him a year to become a WR) and I apologize to my fellow ASU fans. Didn't mean to make us look like crybabies. If no one's ever seen him play before, go look him up on youtube
Like the UNC Bobcats...though, thankfully that's changing. There's probably only going to be one ASU guy on the Panthers once the cuts were made. It will be ok.
One things for sure...it'll never be the ASU Bobcats
Posted August 22, 2010
While you're correct, I never said it would be.
Posted August 23, 2010
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Britain is leading the world on banking reform
26 June 2013, Financial Times
Globally, the Bank of England has been the main source of fresh and sceptical thinking on the future of the financial sector. While this has won it few friends in the City of London, such unpopularity is a mark of success not failure.
14 January 2011, Scottish Affairs
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Immigration: Amnesty plan a bad idea
When President George W. Bush tried to ram through the McCain-Kennedy "comprehensive" immigration reform proposal, the American people rose in opposition and brought the bill to a screeching halt. Why? Because ordinary Americans understood then what a sham "comprehensive" immigration reform was, just as they understand now that the current proposals put forward by President Obama and the "Gang of Eight" senators are virtually the same as Bush/McCain/Kennedy.
"Comprehensive" immigration reform, as envisioned in the two similar plans, consists essentially of two components: an amnesty for up to 11 million illegal aliens, and enhanced guest worker provisions that would allow employers to import cheaper workers from outside the U.S., regardless of the impact on the domestic work force. The only thing new in the Obama/Gang of Eight proposals is that the "path to citizenship" will not go into effect until after the border is secure, which raises several problems.
First, how do we determine when the border is "secure," and who makes that decision? The short answer: Politicians will decide, without any objective way to measure border security.
But of greatest concern is the so-called "trigger," that we are told will delay the "path to citizenship" until the border is secure. This is an illusion meant to fool the public into believing that amnesty will only take place after the border is secure. Nothing could be further from the truth. Because on Day One, every one of the 11 million illegal aliens will be eligible for a temporary document allowing them to stay and work in the U.S., their two most important goals.
Despite the "trigger," all 11 million receive what they want at the beginning of the process, not the end, and there will be no way to take that away from them. Does anyone seriously believe that after they have been living here for years that the government would say, "Sorry, but we cannot secure the border, you will all have to leave now"? That the president and eight senators would propose such a transparently fraudulent idea brings discredit to all of them.
Amnesty, or a "path to citizenship" as its proponents call it, is bad for a number of reasons. First, it rewards illegal conduct, never a good idea, because it erodes the concept of the rule of law. But even worse, it encourages future illegal immigration, by demonstrating to the 4 billion people living in poverty around the world that the U.S. is not serious about enforcing its laws, and that it is worth the effort to immigrate illegally so they will benefit from the next amnesty. We gave amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens after the 1986 "reform," but there have been smaller, less publicized "amnesties" handed out to particular groups since then, and the president wants amnesty for another 11 million. What message are we sending to those who would love nothing better than to live and work in this bountiful country? "Come on down," as the announcer used to say on "The Price is Right."
But there is a third evil in an amnesty, and that is the effect it has on future legal immigration. Under current law, every one of those 11 million will be able to sponsor family members to immigrate legally. Based upon the 1986 amnesty, on average five legal immigrants were added to the population for each person who received amnesty. So the 11 million could add another 55 million legal immigrants in the next two decades. Is population growth at that level good for the national interest?
The Obama/Gang of Eight proposals promise some sort of workplace enforcement to make sure that illegal aliens are not able to find work. Why should we believe them? The 1986 law promised workplace enforcement but failed miserably. Since then, proposals to improve workplace enforcement, such as E-Verify, a simple system that allows employers to verify employee eligibility, have been opposed by all the same groups that today support amnesty.


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IBM Systems Storage Software Blog
Share your story at Pulse: Hints and tips for creating a stellar Storage proposal
Tiffeni Woodhams 270001Q08F email@example.com Tags:  storage-blog ibmtivoli ibmstorage information-infrastructur... storage pulse2010 tivoli dynamic-infrastructure pulse service-management ibm 2 Comments 3,251 Visits
In preparation for Pulse 2010 in Vegas, I interviewed John Connor, the Pulse track lead for Storage and Information Infrastructure, to help you generate good ideas for submitting your call for speaker abstracts for Pulse. John will actually be reviewing the submissions with a team of other folks, so here is some advice that you can leverage to increase your chances of being accepted to speak at Pulse.
Me: What are the hot topics in the area of storage and information infrastructure today?
John: The hot topics in the area of storage and information infrastructure today are how, in today's tight economy, customers are leveraging storage in their information infrastructure to improve scalability, addressing the performance of their storage management assets, cutting capital expenditures by reducing duplicate data to lower storage capacity needs and simplifying the overall management of their storage infrastructure.
Me: Which topics would you like to see presented at pulse are
John: Ideally I would like to see sessions at Pulse that highlight customer success stories, how Tivoli storage management and/or IBM storage solutions helped customers address the challenges we discussed above.
Me: Who are good candidates for submitting abstracts and why?
John: The best candidates to talk about these successes are the folks who implemented them, which would be our customers. Customers are able to discuss their return on investment and how the IBM storage solutions are benefiting them in their everyday business operations. Another good candidate would be our business partners, accompanying and co-presenting with their clients on the IBM storage solutions they've implemented.
Me: What are you looking for in a good proposal?
John: As I mentioned earlier about the topics I would like to see presented, a good proposal is a customer success story around IBM storage solutions, including Tivoli storage management software, and/or storage hardware and storage services. This proposal should describe the initial pain points or problems that existed, how our solutions helped and the lessons learned that could be applied to other customer situations. This type of proposal and session at Pulse will help others learn from each other.
Me: What are the benefits of submitting an abstract for Pulse?
John: Submitting your abstract is a great way to gain visibility for your work, and your particular solution. Customers that submit abstracts and that are selected will receive a complimentary pass to attend Pulse at no charge ($1,995 value) and admission to on site VIP client lounge. Attending Pulse is not only a great way to share your companys success by implementing IBM storage solutions, but it is also a great education and networking opportunity.
Me: What is the deadline for submitting call for speaker abstracts?
John: The deadline to submit your abstract is Nov. 20th. Dont delay, submit your proposal today.
With such great guidance from John, youre sure to write a perfect proposal. If you have any questions on submitting abstracts for Pulse or want feedback on an idea, just leave a blog comment. Also, be sure to check out this justification letter if you need that extra edge to convince your boss of the value of attending Pulse. I hope to see you there!
Introducing You to the Tivoli Storage Blog Team
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Welcome to the Tivoli Storage blog.
We have gathered a team of SMEs from various areas of the business to discuss a variety of topics, spanning different interest areas including customer success stories, upcoming events, Business Partner spotlights, technical tips and tricks, product strategy, roadmaps and hot topics -- and of course, topics of interest to you!
Introducing the team!
BJ Klingenberg: Senior Technical Staff Member - Storage Software, IBM Software Group
BJ has over 25 years of storage software strategy and development experience. He has held various technical and management positions, nearly all of which have been related to storage software. His experience in Enterprise storage management includes DFSMS, DFSMShsm, DFSMSdss, and also Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) as well as System Storage SAN Volume Controler (SVC). He has also been involved in projects which apply ITIL management best practices to Enterprise Storage Management. BJ is currently focusing on storage archiving solutions. BJ is a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona
Dave Rice: Business Partner Marketing, Tivoli Storage Software
Dave currently works in IBMs Worldwide Software Group where he drives Business Partner Marketing for Tivoli storage software and also has a focus on Asia Pacific and Japan geographies. In this role, Dave influences Business Partner sales pipeline through, lead/pipeline analysis, progression activities, partner communications, and implementing programs that provide Business Partner Opportunity Identification. Dave has been in a broad set of storage software marketing roles for the past 13 years, and has 35 years with IBM. Outside of IBM, Dave's interests include astronomy, as well as home and life improvement projects.
Del Hoobler: Senior Software Engineer
Del is a Senior Software Engineer that has worked for IBM for over 20 years in software design, development and services. For the past 13 years, he has worked on designing and developing software products for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) suite of products. Most recently, Del was the technical development lead for the TSM Windows snapshot (VSS) support for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server. Del enjoys working with people and helping solve their complicated IT problems.
Devon Helms is currently an intern with the IBM Tivoli Software group and a second year MBA candidate at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. His studies are focus on business strategy and corporate finance. Before returning to the academic world to pursue his MBA, Devon was a business operations and technology consultant. He has been involved in hundreds of engagements, analyzing and improving his customers business processes. After his studies are complete, Devon wants to continue to help clients improve the performance of their businesses through business process and financial analysis. In his free time, Devon is an avid marathon runner, rock climber, and SCUBA diver. Devon lives in Lakewood, CA with his lovely wife, Shana and his 8 year old Siberian Husky and faithful running partner, Frosty.
Greg Tevis: Tivoli Storage Technical Strategist
Greg has over 27 years in IBM storage hardware and software development. He worked in ADSM/TSM architecture and technical support in the 1990s and was one of the original architects of IBM's storage resource management solution, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC). He currently has responsibility for technology strategy for all Tivoli Storage and was involved in all of the recent IBM Storage acquisitions including XIV, Diligent, FilesX, Novus Consulting, and Arsenal Digital.
Jason Davison
Jason has been the product manager for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) family since joining IBM in 2006. Prior to joining IBM, Jason was a product manager at EMC and Prisa Networks, responsible for the road map and strategy of various storage management offerings. When not helping define the direction for TPC, Jason acts as the President for Classic Soccer Club, a youth soccer club where his son currently plays.
John Connor: Product Manager
John is the Product Manager for IBMs flagship data protection and recovery offerings, the Tivoli Storage Manager family. During Johns tenure as product manager, TSM has experienced strong growth; growing faster than the overall market, and gaining market share. Prior to joining the Tivoli Storage Manager team in 2005, John helped drive the business strategy for IBM Retail Store Solutions. Prior to that, John had product and marketing roles in various IBM software businesses including WebSphere and networking software. John has an MBA from Duke University and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College. In his spare time, John enjoys competing in triathlons and has successfully completed an Ironman triathlon.
John R. Foley Jr.: Product Marketing Manager
John is currently a marketing manager within IBM's Tivoli storage software marketing team. John has over 20 years of experience in the areas of storage hardware, storage software and system networking. He has held positions in management, product line management, strategy, business development and marketing. In the past 10 years, he has served on multiple storage projects including SAN storage (fibre channel & iSCSI), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and fibre channel switch offerings. Most recent projects include the introduction of IBM's System Storage N series portfolio stemming from the NetApp OEM agreement and the release to market of IBM's newly introduced Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4 and IBM Information Archive Version 1.
Kelly Beavers: IBM Storage Software Business Line Executive
Kelly joined the IBM Storage Software team in 2004 as Director of Strategy and Product Management for Storage Software and Solutions. Her team is responsible for guiding the development and release of products that capitalize on market/technology trends, and for defining and executing tactical go-to-market plans for IBM storage software solutions across both the Tivoli and Systems Storage brands. Kelly has 28 years with IBM where she's held a variety of roles including Finance, Pricing, Tivoli Channel Development, Director of Customer Insight, managing Market Intelligence, Customer Relations and Marketing Operations. Kelly is married with two daughters, ages 19 and 12.
Matt Anglin: Tivoli Storage Manager Development
Matt has been a member of the Tivoli Storage Manager Server Development Team for 15 years. His areas of expertise include data movement to and within the server, deduplication, shredding, and DB2 interactions. He is the AIX platform export in TSM, and is knowledgeable about other Unix, Linux, and Windows plaforms. Matt lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Matthew Geiser: Manager, Storage Software Product Management
Matt joined IBM in 2001 and has worked in product management and product development for Storage Software offerings including SAN Volume Controller, Tivoli Productivity Center, Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Information Archive. Matt's current responsibilities include managing the product management team for the storage infrastructure management offerings. Prior to IBM, Matt worked in a variety of operations, project management and software development roles in the banking and energy industries.
Milan Patel: Senior Product Marketing Manager
Milan is responsible for Product Marketing of IBM storage software for virtualized server environments, storage clouds and of course every day issues in storage management like backup, recovery, archiving and replication. Milan has been with IBM for over 6 years working in server and storage systems and storage software marketing groups. Prior to that, Milan spent 13 years in various capacities from development to product management of various server subsystems and systems management.
Richard Vining: Product Marketing Manager
Rich is the Product Marketing Manager responsible for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager portfolio of products. Rich joined IBM in April 2008 as part of the acquisition of FilesX, where he served as Director of Marketing. Rich has more than 20 years of experience in the data storage industry, holding senior management roles in marketing, alliances, customer support and product management at a number of leading edge companies, including Signiant, OTG Software, Plasmon and Cygnet. Rich enjoys eating, drinking, travelling and golfing (but doesn't everybody?)
Rodney Fannin: Worldwide Channel Manager, Tivoli Storage Software
Rodney has over 15 years of experience in working with Business Partners. Primary responsibilities include refining the channel strategy for Storage software and developing sales and marketing tactics to increase reseller revenue worldwide. Rodney is also a contributing author for the BP Spotlight on our blog.
Roger Wofford: Product Manager
Roger is currently a Product Manager in Tivoli Storage Software. He has experience in Manufacturing, Development, Marketing and Sales within IBM. He enjoys golf, swimming and the Rocky Mountains. Roger plans to blog about how customers use archiving solutions in their storage environments.
Ron Riffe: IBM Storage Software Business Strategist
Ron is currently the business strategist for IBM Storage Software. During the last six years, Ron has been devising and implementing IBM's storage software strategy with a focus on creating greater client value through integrating IBM storage software and storage hardware offerings. Ron has managed storage systems and storage management software for more than 23 years, holding positions in senior management, product line management, strategy and business development for both IBM System Storage and IBM Tivoli Storage. Ron has written papers on the synergies of storage automation and virtualization and frequently speaks at conferences and customer locations on the subject of storage software. Prior to joining IBM, Ron spent 10 years as a corporate storage manager for international manufacturing firm Texas Instruments after receiving a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
Shawn Jaques: Manager, IBM Tivoli Storage Product Management
Shawn has been in his current role as manager of storage software product management for nearly three years. The team is responsible for product strategy, content, positioning and pricing of IBM storage software solutions. Prior, Shawn had product and market management roles in other Tivoli product areas as well as a stint in Tivoli Strategy. Before joining IBM, Shawn was a Consulting Manager at Cap Gemini consulting and an Audit Manager at KPMG. Shawn has a Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Montana. He lives in Boulder, Colorado and enjoys fly-fishing, skiing and hiking with his wife and kids.
Terese Knicky: Analyst Relations Tivoli
Terese is with Tivoli's analyst relation team covering Storage, System z, Job Scheduling and IBM's General Enterprise solutions. Terese was born and raised in Omaha, NE and transplanted to Texas where she enjoys watching her two boys play college football.
And finally, let's talk about me. I'm Tiffeni Woodhams and I have been with IBM for nearly seven years. Currently, I am a Tivoli Storage Marketing Manager where I am responsible for general marketing activities, ranging from pipeline measurement and tracking, providing marketing execution guidance and communications to the geography teams; Tivoli Storage Social Media lead and co-lead for IBM Storage Social computing strategy. I also work on major launches like Dynamic Infrastructure and Information Infrastructure providing the storage messaging and linkages. Prior to this role, I have held several other marketing positions including Tivoli Provisioning Go-to-Market Manager, Benelux Software Marketing Manager focusing on Tivoli, WebSphere, and Lotus, Americas Tivoli Marketing Manager, and Tivoli Launch Strategist. In my spare time, I enjoy playing sports (basketball, softball, and golf), coaching JV girls basketball, riding horses, and spending time with family and friends.
Now that you know a little background on each of the team members, we hope that you will let us know some of your interest areas when it comes to IBM Storage and IBM Tivoli Storage Software solutions. Please post comments to this blog and let us know what you want to hear about.
Some topics we will be discussing in the next month include:
Pulse 2010, the Premier Service Management Event
Data Reduction - the steps to get to where you want to be
Archiving - why you need to do it
Upcoming Webinars
Unified Recovery Mangement
New Product announcements and roadmaps.
Thanks and we look forward to hearing your feedback.
TSM Fastback + Juniper WAN Optimization = fast remote backups
Vince Padua 0600000RVG firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  storage-software tivoli fastback bakup data-deduplication tsm ibmstorage acceleration data-protection storage-blog wan juniper optimization ibm recovery 3,700 Visits
Juniper Networks recently published a solution brief regarding the performance boost you get from using TSM Fastback in concert with their WAN optimization (WXC). The value proposition is pretty straightforward: reduced backup times and reduced WAN bandwidth and cost. You can read the full details in the report, but here are a few snippets worth noting:
Conceptual view of the bandwidth savings ...
Savings of backing up 92GB over a 155Mbps link with 100 ms latency:
These savings are above and beyond those you already get with using TSM Fastback (taken from solution brief):
TSM Fastback is a solution that has seen strong adoption from customers with remote offices ... If backup times or bandwidth usage over a WAN are a concern, I suggest you look into the WXC offering from Juniper Networks in concert with TSM Fastback.
CDC Improves Service Level Agreement Levels By 98 Percent
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The Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC) is the only depository in Pakistan, handling the electronic settlement of transactions carried out at the country's three stock exchanges.
Business need:
With numerous point management tools, time-consuming manual processes and no single help desk, IT administrators were constantly operating in a reactive mode and faced just 90 percent system availability.
IBM Business Partner Gulf Business Machines helped CDC implement an Integrated Service Management solution from IBM that increases IT efficiency while improving the effectiveness of business services.
90 percent reduction in average time for root cause analysis; estimated 50 percent reduction in time to support new lines of business; 98 percent improvement in service level agreement (SLA) levels.
"IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center gave us greater visibility into storage utilization, helping us optimize capacity planning and improve our storage ROI to save 30%"
—Syed Asif Shah, Chief Information Officer, Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited
Read the complete case study for more details on the solutions used for CDC to implement and Integrated Service Management solution.
More success stories of other customer implementations of IBM technologies can be found here.
TSM customer success leveraging deduplication
Vince Padua 0600000RVG firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  roi tivoli bakup data-deduplication tsm recovery storage-software storage-blog ibmstorage data-protection ibm 3 Comments 6,736 Visits
At the recent Gartner IOM 2010 conference in Orlando, Florida, I had the good fortune of listening to a series of interesting topics and meeting some really smart people. As one might have guessed, the bulk of the sessions focused on virtualization and cloud topics. But the one topic that piqued my interested was unrelated to virtualization and cloud - it was deduplication and was hosted by Dave Russell.
The intent of the session was to bring forward a some customer examples that were deploying deduplication technologies in their backup and recovery solutions. Most of you that read this blog know that deduplication and data reduction have been a hot topic in the industry. And as you likely know, almost every major vendor out there offers some form of deduplication with its associated benefits.
This session provided us two customers who were willing to talk about their experiences with deduplication and the benefits they've received. One customer is using CommVault and the other is using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager v6 (TSM). While both customers showcased the quantified benefits from deduplication, the presentation from the TSM customer went beyond just the benefits of deduplication. The TSM customer revealed their quantified benefits and also identified some of the best practices they developed regarding deduplication.
This particular TSM customer is a large producer of natural gas in the U.S. The customers environment has TSM managing about 1.3 petabytes of data from over 1500+ nodes. Overall, their approach to managing backup storage is do it as efficiently as possible and to reduce the overall amount of backup data under management.
Prior to leveraging TSM deduplication, this customer began with "incremental forever" and compression. Once TSM v6 was released, they adopted deduplication at the server and client in concert with the other data reduction features provided by TSM.
As they began evaluating their use of deduplication, they had to deal with demands from their internal customers - DBA and Exchange admins like full backups etc. Furthermore, they had to consider how their rate of data change, evaluate retention policies, and ensure that their restore requirements weren't negatively impacted by the use of deduplication.
After significant testing and planning, the customer decided that they would initially deploy deduplication for their Oracle databases and Windows OS and system state backups. The results of using TSM deduplication were impressive ...
Oracle deduplication results - 75% reduction of Oracle backup data after deduplication. This was on 3.8TB of physical space on disk and about 15 TBs of data on tape.
And their results on Windows OS and System State were a whopping 94% ... taking them from 172GB of managed data down to 11.4 GB. In this scenario, the customer leveraged TSM 6.2 client- or source-side deduplication.
Overall, very impressive results. By leveraging the data reduction features within TSM, the customer was able to save by using less tapes library cells, tape drives, and disks.
In the end, the customer stated that TSM data reduction (with deduplication) helped them meet their objectives - efficiently reduce data under management. Furthermore, it allows them to reduce their overall HW costs and meet or improve restore requirements. The last comment the customer made before closing the session was that with all the various TSM data reduction capabilities in production, their job had ultimately gotten simpler now that their environment was running more efficiently ...
This is a fantastic story that I really enjoy sharing. If you are a TSM customer and have benefited from its data reduction technologies, then please give me a shout as I would like to hear your story as well.
Early Access Program for IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
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Hi there!
I have been writing about IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager on Windows and some of the new functions that we released earlier this year like Exchange Server 2010 support and SQL Server 2008 R2 support. We are working on some more exciting enhancements and I want to tell you about an early access program for the next release of FlashCopy Manager. If you are interested in looking at and testing some of the new functions and features of the next release of IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager, please contact your IBM Tivoli Sales Representative to get more information.
This is a nice opportunity to see what is coming in the next release of FlashCopy Manager and test it in your own environment. Act now!
Tivoli Storage Manager continues to take share in Q2!
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IBM posted Q2 results yesterday showing strong performance by the Tivoli brand. Here is an excerpt from the prepared remarks:
Of particular interest for this blog is the continued strength of the storage software portfolio:
Congrats to the team for their continued success ... looking forward to 2H 2010!
Asian Pacific hospital gains peace of mind with virtualized data protection
Tiffeni Woodhams 270001Q08F email@example.com Tags:  ibmstorage storage-blog tivoli data-availability data-protection storage ibm healthcare virtualization 2,077 Visits
Working with IBM, a hospital in Asia Pacific gained a data protection solution that meets users' data availability requirements,
scales on demand to support a growing warehouse of patient data and medical images, and simplifies data migration and
data recovery tasks.
The benefits of the solution include a 50% reduction in backup window; restores individual Microsoft Exchange objects in minutes;
restores systems in under 10 minutes.
Read the complete case study to see how this Asian Pacific hospital gained peace of mind with virtualixed data protection from IBM.
More success stories of other customer implementations of IBM technologies can be found here
Introduction to IBM Smart Archive Strategy
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The end of last year was pretty hectic for a lot of us and you might not have attended IBM's "Information on Demand Gala" but as a refresher, we introduced our Smart Archive Strategy. Several of my customers have been asking for a refresher on the topic and we've just posted a short video describing this comprehensive approach that combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities designed to help you extract value and gain new intelligence from information by collecting, organizing, analyzing and leveraging that information. For more information, watch this video, visit the IBM Smart Archive Strategy Website and meet me at Pulse 2010 by attending the Storage Track sessions to discuss your specific archiving needs.
TSM Protects Leading Supercomputer
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A new supercomputer at the University of Kentucky has placed it in the top 10 of public universities for compute power.
According to UK President Lee T. Todd Jr, "This supercomputer will allow our world-class researchers to discover new solutions to the complex problems facing the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world."
This new high-performance compute cluster comes with 200 terabytes of usable disk storage. This important data is protected by Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and Heirarchical Storage Manager (HSM) that is connected to the UK central backup system.
I'd like to congratulate UK on making it into the top 10 public university supercomputers. Lastly, I'd like thank them for selecting TSM to protect this critical infrastructure.
You can find the full report on the UK supercomputer at HPCwire.
Storage at Pulse 2010 - Cristie Software Limited
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While I was at Pulse 2010 in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity of Interviewing Scott Sterry from Cristie Software Limited. Cristie Bare Machine Recovery integrates with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a Bare Machine Recovery (BMR) solution for Windows®, Linux, SUN Solaris and HP-UX.
If you were unable to attend the live Pulse 2010 event in Las Vegas, you can still attend the Virtual event - register today. You can also check out the Pulse Comes To You Web site to see if there will be an event in a city near you.
Count Down to Pulse 2010
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The count down is on... with only 2 weeks left to Pulse 2010, I wanted to give you and update on additional perks you'll have access to if you register and attend.
Meet the Experts!
Talk one-on-one with Product Experts
Visit the Expo!
Mid-Market Zone
Share Your Story
This year at Pulse 2010 we are scheduling video tape interviews with clients who are willing to share their thoughts on what they are doing to achieve visibility, control, and automation in their infrastructure. We will be filming client videos at Pulse starting Sunday, February 21, through Wednesday, February 24. The content will be used to produce short videos that we will leverage to tell the needs clients are addressing in their organizations. Our customers have been sharing their stories throughout 2009 as you can see below. Interested in participating? Notify me at email@example.com
High Availability Storage Cloud
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Cloud storage technologies made impressive strides in 2009, and the trend looks to build on that momentum in 2010. IBM is expecting steady growth in cloud storage deployments, especially in the areas of test environments, Web serving, and other non-mission-critical scale-out storage needs.
Standards in this area are just beginning to be discussed and will also be evolving in 2010. Standard file protocols such as CIFS and NFS are obvious starting points for cloud storage access, but other approaches utilizing object storage techniques have also been proposed.
To prepare for cloud storage within the data centers, IT managers will need to determine a small number of focused areas to use as starting points. In the short term, cloud storage is a technology that will be deployed to address specific and unique requirements across the enterprise. Therefore, it is recommended to carefully choose areas to pilot the technology where managers can gain insight into where they can extend usage into other areas and build skills for when it becomes more widely deployable.
Watch this video to gain important insight into what it takes to deploy and manage high available Cloud Storage environments.
Click here for additional information about IBM Cloud Storage Solutions
Solving the decades old storage 'right tiering' challenge
Michael Barton 100000SJBP email@example.com Tags:  analytics ibm svc virtualization information-lifecycle snapshot smartcloud tiering vmworld storage cloud-storage business-transformation 4,465 Visits
As an IBM marketing manager, my job includes writing about storage technology. This post is about more than technology, though. It's about a new breakthrough capability for managing storage costs and service levels.
I recently met with IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Sylvia, who has been working on a Business Transformation project to enable automated right tiering for storage in IBM data centers. Right tiering is the notion that data should be hosted on the optimal storage tier to balance cost and performance requirements.
Mike explained that applications tend to be hosted on top tier storage. When he analyzed actual usage patterns, Mike found most data can be effectively hosted on lower cost storage. Mike's project put numbers to a problem that is often hidden from view and, until now, nearly impossible to solve.
Hosting data on the wrong storage tier turns out to be a huge efficiency problem. Mike predicts IBM will save $13 million over 3 years in one data center, by periodically moving data to the right tier. During the pilot, users saw their cost for storage drop by 50% per TB on average. This is big.
Like many advancements, IBM's automated right tiering capability is accomplished by integrating existing technology. Mike Sylvia's project combines storage virtualization, storage management automation and analytics. Today, IBM offers the technology in a bundled solution called SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center.
How does it work?
Step 1. IBM's storage virtualization controller collects detailed usage metrics about storage it manages throughout the data center, without impacting application performance.
Step 2. IBM's Storage Analytics Engine studies usage patterns over time to understand performance requirements.
Step 3: Storage tier recommendations are generated in reports that can be shared with application owners and IT management.
Step 4: Storage virtualization enables online data migration, with no disruption to applications or users.
Repeat: Usage patterns change over time, of course, so right tiering becomes an ongoing process.
Why does it work?
Automated right tiering delivers the efficiency benefits of Information Lifecycle Management without the headaches and hidden costs. Automated right tiering has significant benefits for both data owners and IT leaders, so everyone wins.
For example, application and database owners can gain the following benefits:
Applications can move to top tier storage when they need it, without waiting for a maintenance window.
Average storage costs drop significantly, without a drop in services.
IT leaders benefit, too. For example:
Storage tier decisions are based on analysis of actual usage patterns, not predictions. Storage performance management tasks are eliminated.
Data can quickly and easily be moved back to its original storage tier if requested, without incurring an outage.
IBM automated right tiering works with most storage systems, so deployment is nondisruptive.
The technology that enables automated right tiering has significant additional benefits, such as the ability to eliminate scheduled outages for storage system maintenance.
Problem solved. How has your organization addressed the storage right tiering challenge?
Watch a video of Mike Sylvia describing his automated right tiering project at the IBM Edge conference in June, 2012.
Listen to IBM storage virtualization expert and master inventor, Barry Whyte's 2-part webcast called, "Storage Virtualization - IBM SVC – Benefits", in April, 2012
Visit IBM's Virtualized SAP Demo and other smarter solutions at VMworld August 26-30, 2012 in
IBM has bundled automated right tiering technology into a new solution called SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, available through IBM sellers and Business Partners.
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IDC has recently released its Worldwide Storage Software QView for the first quarter of 2012. In it, IDC estimates that the total Storage Software market for 1Q12 grew about 3.3% over 1Q11. IBM had a solid quarter while Symantec faltered, allowing IBM to take the overall #2 share rank position for 1Q12.
§ In Data Protection and Recovery, IBM held its #2 share rank position, gaining 1.8 points of share over 1Q11.
§ IBM retained its #1 position for Archiving Software growing faster than the market. HP holds #2 spot with its 2011 acquisition of Autonomy.
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JD Program Orientation 2016 (Thursday, August 11 – Monday, August 15)
Orientation will be held Thursday, August 11 – Monday, August 15. The first day of 1L classes will be Wednesday, August 17 - See Academic Calendar 2016-17
Program details will be posted as soon as they are finalized. Over the course of Orientation, students are assisted with everything from setting up all services for law school to getting student IDs and tours of the campus to attending receptions and participating in Miami Law's HOPE Day of Service.
Admitted students will be notified of orientation specifics and other relevant events via:
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LL.M. Program Orientations (Thursday, August 4)
International Arbitration
LL.M. Orientation will start on Thursday, August 4. At the LL.M. Orientation for International Arbitration incoming LL.M. students meet representatives from the Law School including the director of the program, faculty, career advisors, and librarians. Students are informed about various opportunities available for them during the academic year, including international moot court program, New York Job Fair, and research assistantships. Also, individual course advising sessions are scheduled during orientation and students are given an overview on practical matters, such as health insurance, setting up laptops and acquiring a student ID or "Cane Card."
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Miami Law's International Graduate Law Programs (IGLP) hosts an orientation for the above LL.M. programs. This intensive orientation is specifically for international students in which they receive information about University of Miami School of Law such as: academics, program overview, course selection, student services, parking, career services, campus tour and more. There will also be information about the vicinity including: moving to Miami, housing, visas, driver's licenses, and forms they will need to complete. Students also get to meet their future colleagues and the International Graduate Law Programs' team.
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Each year the above Miami Law LL.M. Programs host a Joint LL.M. Orientation the Thursday before the first day of class and on the following day, they hold a Welcome Reception for incoming LL.M. students. At the orientation, incoming LL.M. students meet representatives from the Law School including various Deans, representatives from the Financial Aid office, Career Advisors for LL.M. students, librarians and student health center representative. In addition students are given an overview on setting up Laptops and acquiring a student ID or "Cane Card."
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Return Policy: Navy Tops Princeton In Sprint Football
Sean Conrad broke free down the far sideline and sprinted 40 yards to the end zone, and the Princeton sprint football team had scored against Navy, something it hadn't done since 2004.
Not content with just one touchdown, Princeton's Nicholas Barnett stripped the ball from a Navy running back and brought it back 34 yards in the fourth quarter.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, both times the Midshipmen put a quick dose of reality back to the game, answering both touchdowns by returning the kickoff for a touchdown. Navy also returned a punt and an interception for TDs and added enough offense to the return game to knock off the Tigers 62-13 on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium.
Navy led 10-0 in the first quarter when Conrad broke his long run, giving Princeton its first points in eight years against the Mids. The touchdowns wouldn't be the only highlights for the Tigers.
Princeton shut Navy out in the third quarter for its first scoreless quarter against the Mids since 2006.
Princeton's Chris Cadman intercepted two passes, including one in the end zone, and Richard Youngblood had a pick of his own in the end zone as well. Cadman also had 14 tackles and a great one-handed reception.
Still, Princeton was done in by the big plays.
In fact, Navy had just 264 yards of total offense, but the four returns for touchdowns alone were worth another 260 yards.
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PGR's Carter Williams takes two crowns, Tatikian, Hays capture one each in SKUSA 2015 campaign
ANAHEIM, Calif. (Dec. 28, 2015)—Phil Giebler Racing's Carter Williams drove to a pair of championships and Vatche Tatikian and Nicky Hays earned one apiece in Superkarts! USA series in 2015. Williams of Clovis, Calif., earned the crowns in the five-event Fikse Pro Tour and the six-event California ProKart Challenge, two of America's most competitive karting series, in the S2 Semi-Pro Stock Moto shifter class. Tatikian of Altadena, Calif., won in TaG Master and Hays of Huntington Beach, Calif., in TaG Junior in the California PKC. The 34-year-old Tatikian also finished third and Hays was fifth in the Pro Tour.


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State Sen. Barbara Blackmon said Monday that, if she's elected Lt. Governor, she'll be in a better position to push her plan to create more jobs.
The democrat emphasized protecting the foundation of the state's economy.
"Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. We must make sure that mom and pop stores and budding entrepreneurs are not lost in the shuffle when it comes to economic development," said Blackmon at a Meridian news conference.
Blackmon said she wants to expand tax credits for existing small businesses, use bonds to jump-start economic development in small cities and establish an annual jobs summit. She said that would enable small businesses to provide tax revenues and help the state expand its "economic pot.''
Blackmon said her proposal to enter the state's Medicaid program in a prescription drug compact with other states would be one measure to help free up money to put the plan into action.
Blackmon faces former Supreme Court Justice Jim Roberts of Pontotoc and businessman Troy Brown of Greenwood in the Aug. 5 primary.
Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck is unopposed in the Republican primary and will face the Democratic nominee in the November 4 general election.
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The iPad saved print media by not saving it at all
Thank goodness that when Steve Jobs took the stage to sit in his Le Corbusier chair and show off the iPhone Maxi, er iPad, he didn't roll out some cockamanie plan to have a digital magazine and newspaper stand with some kind of special pricing program and application store, and trot out, say, Arthur Sulzburger or, well, who else really, would it be but Arthur Sulzburger, to talk about how great the iPad was going to be for the future of news? Thank goodness, and here's why:
There's no need. Everything that newspapers and magazines want to be able to do with per-issue pricing, subscriptions, video, automatic delivery, etc., is already enabled by the iPhone app store, which is the same place iPad users will turn to for programs and content. As Apple's demo employees were telling the geekerati assembled at the play-table after Jobs' address, 'if you use an iPhone, you already know how to use this." There have been a number of disappointed ruminations by media types, and Ryan Tate summarizes the angst ably in Gawker:
But what their demo — the sole non-website newspaper content — lacked in actual pizazz it failed to make up for in hype, either. Nothing from Jobs on a dedicated newspaper (or magazine) store or reader application. Hardly any waxing poetic by Apple on the possibilities and content development path for newspapers and magazines. Which, as we said before, is absolutely Apple's prerogative — these guys are in the business of making money, not rescuing other industries — but has to give print media execs heartburn.
Exactly, Ryan. It's ridiculous to think that Jobs is going to hitch his wagon to a bunch of old-time media companies and do their R&D for them. There's been nothing stopping them from programming subscription-ready value-added content apps for the iPhone ever since OS 3.0 came out in March 2009. Is it Apple's fault if the content is not compelling enough for readers to want to purchase? Or if the magazines or newspapers can't figure out how to rework their content to make it compelling? Or build an app that is on a 'must-have' level? Right this minute the most successful paid app in the App Store from a media company is ranked #45: CNN Mobile, for $1.99. It has 3 stars, because most of the reviewers complain it's full of advertising and has a crappy layout. How is that Apple's fault when so many small developers have figured out to how provide awesome experiences on the platform, and big developers, like Facebook, have singlehandedly redefined what an App can be?
What Jobs has done with the iPad is exactly what made the iPhone successful: he created a pretty spectacular space for app developers to compete over eyeballs for. Some iPad users will only play games or watch video; others will read books and news; a third group may just want to email from the road. A fourth group will inevitably hack into the thing and find ways to multi-task and run background apps and whatever else Apple is banning in its sandbox.
In other words, Apple is not interested in throwing a lifeline to industries that can't figure out this new world we're living in. Maybe there's some karmic reason OS X and the iPhone/iPad OS are based on a core called Darwin. There is a Darwinism at play here; figure out a way to get users to put your app on their device. Then figure out a way to keep them clicking on it, and making you money. If you can't, you're toast.
The book publishing industry is not exactly going to be mistaken for a futurists convention any time soon, but when I wrote about e-readers for a couple of publications recently, I talked to some executives who specifically said they don't care what platform their content is available on, as long as it's out there and revenue can be collected on it. That's not just desperation, that's faith in your product. (I know some publishers are playing cat and mouse with ebook release schedules, but that's not going to last as more of the audience moves to e-reader platforms. In fact it's mostly a negotiation tactic with Amazon. Since Apple's letting publishers set prices, unlike Amazon, they have no reason to deny readers the electronic version of their books on the same day the print copy rolls out, or possibly even earlier.)
In short, the tools are already there for the iPad to become the 'savior' the print media is looking for. But Steve Jobs is not your new bicycle. He will be happy whether the top paid app on the iPad is the 'New York Times Daily Subscription' or 'Rock Band.' And to be fair, some media companies are investing heavily in creating online content that finally gives users what they want. Sports Illustrated rolled out a tablet demo in December that looked ridiculously beyond the reach of any extant device–until the iPad came out yesterday. Now, truthfully, for SI or any old-school magazine to produce issues on a weekly frequency that contain anything like the content and multimedia seen in that demo is going to take A LOT of manpower. Far more than those places are staffing right now. The good news is that their are oodles of journalists already trained to use these tools and produce this kind of content. The bad news is they require salaries and expensive equipment and hardware. The better news is that these big magazine companies still have the money to place a bet on multimedia editions of their magazines. The great news is a whole new generation of publishers can start working in this medium today, without all the legacy costs of a print publication.
The race to develop a machine like this has already been lost. It's over. Not that Apple's first gen iPad is the end of the road; but no magazine consortium is going to beat Apple at this game down the line. The best thing the magazine companies can do is stop kvetching, stop wasting money on hardware, and give content consumers all they've ever wanted all along: an amazing content experience that they're willing to pay for.
Apple has just created the ultimate sandbox. The newspapers and magazines are the rich kids who can afford the coolest Tyco toys. The question is, can they get over the fact that the sandbox is in Steve Jobs' backyard? Readers aren't going to wait around for the print media to get over their sulking; they'll be happy to play with whoever shows up first at Jobs' iPad sandbox with their dumptruck or steamshovel, even if it's made out of plastic and the windshield's popped out, as long as it's fun and worthwhile. Readers will grow with those apps as they evolve and build audiences and revenue. If old media doesn't get its act together, they'll be playing with their shiny metal front-loaders in their crappy cardboard sandboxes, that wilt in the rain, all by themselves, right around the time Stevie and his friends are graduating to the jungle gym.
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