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The IBM BladeCenter® LS22 is a 2-socket, quad-core blade server delivering high performance for memory-intensive applications and virtualization.

The LS22 blade server supports two sockets and up to 32GB of RAM. Supporting two onboard hard drives, the LS22 blade server offers you the flexibility to support database and consolidation tasks or to serve as a building block for extreme high performance computing applications.

 

The LS42 features quad-core AMD Opteron processors for increased processing power, enabling IT managers to run demanding applications or consolidate workloads through virtualization.

 

Highlights

• With a design that delivers investment protection, IBM BladeCenter HT integrates the server blades, switches, networking, storage, I/O, and management platforms that are supported across the BladeCenter family.
• Helps reduce network infrastructure costs with an open, standards-based, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform supporting a large portfolio of world-class, next-generation network (NGN) solutions and applications
• Increase network infrastructure performance with dual-core and quad-core Intel®, AMD and IBM POWER™ processor blades
• Dramatically increase high-speed connectivity and throughput with multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Tbps throughput on backplane) and 40 Gbps per blade server
• Improve network flexibility and interoperability bridging new services to control gateways supporting SS7, VoIP, legacy PSTN, WAN devices and network interfaces with special purpose telecommunications blades
• Efficiently consolidate network resources while delivering high scalability for NGN applications such as IPTV, VoD and IMS, with higher port concentrations and 10 Gbps Ethernet network bandwidth
• BladeCenter supports numerous operating systems and applications, including Linux®, Windows®, AIX® and Sun Solaris 10—allowing you to choose the ones that best suits your needs in a single platform
• Certified testing by Underwriters Laboratories® (UL) of the BladeCenter HT chassis is in progress, and when complete the BladeCenter HT chassis will be covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which will be available for review with customers
• Management tools integrated into BladeCenter help simplify administration and maximize the efficiency of network management staffs to help lower costs and improve control of the central office and/or data center (IBM Director)
• Increase flexibility and choice with a single family of compatible systems, designed for deployment in a telecom central office and/or data center environment

Feature and Hardware Summary

• Chassis features the functionality of BladeCenter with the added performance capabilities of multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Tbps throughput on backplane), a 10 Gbps-capable fabric and a very robust thermal solution.
• Delivers increased network infrastructure performance ideal for telecommunications Service, Control and Transport plane applications
• Improves network flexibility and interoperability via support for many blade processor types and operating systems
• 12U rack-optimized chassis
• Up to 12 blade server bays for extreme performance density
• Supports high-performance dual-core and quad-core Intel, AMD Opteron and POWER processor blades and a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, AIX and Sun Solaris 10
• Up to four traditional hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel
• Up to four new high-speed capable switch module bays supported by 10 Gbps fabric
• Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules, DC or AC power
• Four hot-swap, redundant fan modules
• Redundant removable media trays with optional Compact Flash, two external USB ports and full alarm management panel
• High-availability midplane enables maximum uptime and provides investment protection for future technologies
• Hot-swappable midplane active components provide maximum reliability for deployment into a telecommunications central office
• Investment protection so operators can standardize on a particular configuration for extended period of time

One of the most unique aspects of the BladeCenter S is its onboard SAS/SATA storage capability. The chassis can accommodate up to six 3.5” hard drives in its standard storage module, and six more with an additional storage module. The disks can easily and quickly be assigned directly to blades using built-in predefined configurations or through user definable custom configurations.

Both storage modules are accessible to all blades via a single SAS connectivity module, however with the addition of a second SAS connectivity module, higher levels of availability can be achieved. When two SAS modules are present, the modules provide redundant functionality, with each module being able to access all hard drives in both storage modules. This enterprise-class redundant architecture allows for transparent data protection of all storage contained within the storage modules, and provides the ability to conduct online replacement of either module.

Another new feature introduced with the BladeCenter S is the ability to use 110V electrical power, which is of particular interest to US-based customers. Previously, all BladeCenters required 220V connections, which is readily available in most datacenters. Most small to medium size offices in the US operate on standard 110V power only, and although 220V power is available, it is typically available only at circuit breakers. To accommodate the growing diversity of office locations and facility amenities, the BladeCenter S was designed with the ability to operate on either 110V or 220V power using its autosensing power supplies.

Although the BladeCenter S has many unique features, its ultimate strength lies in its ability to use almost all of the existing BladeCenter blade servers and I/O modules. Due to this unprecedented interoperability, BladeCenter S can be configured to provide enterprise level functionality and availability in virtually any environment.

The BladeCenter S chassis allows for either six single-slot blade servers, or three double-slot blade servers. However, several different blade server models and widths can be intermixed in one chassis simultaneously to support virtually any requirement (subject to power and cooling requirements).

>> Learn more about the BladeCenter S Type 8886

Features one or two Dual-Core Intel Xeon at up to 3.0 GHz speed with 1333 MHz front-side bus or one or two Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5320 at up to 1.86 GHz with 1066 MHz front-side bus. Supports from 1 to 32 GB memory and up to 367 GB of disk storage.

 

• High-density modular blade server designed to support the entire family of BladeCenter chassis
• Higher internal memory combined with multi-core processors at 64-bit delivers leadership performance for multi-threaded applications
• Featuring new low-voltage Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors for true performance efficiency
• Supports new IBM solid state drives for optimized durability, reliability and power efficiency
• Helps reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology

ATCA-PP50 provides superior performance via one or two discrete multi-core MIPS64 packet processors. Each processor provides 8 multi-threaded cores and contains a built-in security co-processor capable of handling up to 10Gbps of bulk encryption / decryption (20Gbps per blade). ATCA-PP50 supports each processor with up to 8GB (16GB per blade) of memory as well as access to a TCAM and content-based processors via mezzanines. TCAM is especially important for very high performance IPv6 routing platforms.

ATCA-PP50 interconnects the processors, I/O, and backplane fabrics using a non-blocking 10GbE switch. Each XLR processor is provided with two 10GbE ports to the switch providing full duplex 10GbE capabilities. External I/O is supported over a dual redundant 10GbE backplane fabric (PICMG 3.1.9) as well as through direct connection to 10GbE and 1GbE ports on the front or rear depending on a customer's specific cabling requirements.

Coupled with Continuous Computing's ATCA systems and Trillium® protocol software, FlexPacket ATCA-PP50 provides the fastest path from application development to deployment revenue. From IPTV to Wireless Core Networks, ATCA-PP50 is the blade of choice for deploying a wide range of high performance, scalable telecom applications.

 

The BladeCenter JS21 represents a convergence of leadership and value, combining support of AIX 5L™, IBM's industrial-strength Linux, Advanced POWER Virtualization and AltiVec™ SIMD acceleration into a single, highly reliable, high-performance blade server.

Since today's datacenter environment is tougher than ever, clients are looking to reduce IT costs, complexity, space requirements, power consumption and heat output, while increasing flexibility, utilization and manageability. The new 2.3 GHz JS21 blade option delivers what cost-conscious clients demand. With the flexibility to grow and the choice of three BladeCenter chassis to match diverse environments and performance requirements, the JS21 blade is the perfect choice to succeed in today's demanding business environments.

 

Its single-wide blade form factor provides extraordinary computing density, up to 6.4 TFLOPS in a single BladeCenter H Chassis. It features two high-performance Cell/B.E. processors with 2 GB standard processor memory, dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, optional dual-port 4x InfiniBand HCA connected through PCI-Express, optional Serial Attached SCSI daughter cards connected through PCI-X and optional I/O buffer memory DIMMs (up to 2 GB, 4x512MB).

 

Highlights

• Third generation blade system based on an enhanced version of the Cell Broadband Engine™ Architecture
• IBM PowerXCell™ 8i processor, offering five times the double precision performance of the previous Cell/B.E. processor
• High-performance blade solution for selected workloads
• Potential 10x or greater performance acceleration of target workloads such as rendering and medical imaging
• Up to 32 GB of processor memory

The IBM BladeCenter® HC10 ushers in revolutionary server-based computing technology for workstation applications by offering high security and manageability, while delivering outstanding graphics performance and full USB capability. Built-in features are ideal for engineering design applications (CAD), trading floor and other financial applications, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, distance collaboration and more.

Features
• Revolutionary blade form factor delivers flexibility and simplicity for workstation application
• Workstation-class processor and graphics
• Innovative I/O and Graphics Transmission Adapter delivers compressed and encrypted graphics and USB over TCP/IP network in real time without special device driver
• Designed for Microsoft Windows
• Extends and leverages the capability of the BladeCenter family

Hardware summary
• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo up to 2.66 GHz and up to 1066 MHz front-side bus
• 8 GB DDR II memory maximum
• NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 120M professional 2D graphics or NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M advanced 3D graphics
• Support for Microsoft Windows Vista™ Business Blade PC Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Gigabit Ethernet (TOE-capable)
• BladeCenter I/O and Graphics Transmission Adapter to transmit Video/USB over Ethernet

Delivering all benefits of Server-Based Computing, Devon IT's Thin Client Terminals are used by many of the world's largest financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail companies as well as schools and universities because they make today's most powerful applications more affordable, easier to manage, and secure.

 

The Wyse line of thin clients has led the industry for the seven years it has been tracked. When integrated with additional hardware, software, and services they become part of a complete solution to a business problem.

Wyse thin clients run Windows, Java, Linux, UNIX and web-based applications safely on central servers using a thin display protocol. Applications do not traverse the network and are not downloaded into the thin client, eliminating user security and bandwidth issues common with PCs.

 

Broadcom's NetXtreme II® controller chips are the first controllers in the industry to deliver storage networking, accelerated data networking and remote system management pass-through functions in a single, all-in-one solution at price points enabling the broad adoption of this technology. By deploying these functions over standard Ethernet networks, IT professionals can significantly reduce the costs associated with deploying and maintaining today's complex fabric infrastructure and dramatically improve server efficiency.

 

The FM2000 layer-2, the FM3000 layer-2+ and the FM4000 multi-layer devices are available in a variety of port configurations with as many as 24 ports of full line rate switching and routing in a single, integrated device. Each FM2000 has a comparable, pin-compatible FM3000 or FM4000 device, enabling customers to offer a family of products with a range of features and price points, leveraging a single hardware design.

The FocalPoint series of 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch/router chips is the most bandwidth-efficient interconnect solution available to switch platform makers, enabling them to build scalable 10-Gigabit switch fabrics for highly-efficient, highly-scalable data centers that can handle centralized computing, networked applications and broadband mobility.

FocalPoint chips are designed for datacenter switching platforms, high-performance computing, storage interconnect, and datacenter network convergence applications. They are complete layer 2/3/4 IP switch/routers with full line-rate performance on all ports and provide a total throughput of 360 million packets per second while achieving the lowest latency in the industry - 300 nanoseconds as a full layer 3/4 router.

This functionality provides a high performance solution that exceeds the capabilities of specialty fabrics such as InfiniBand and Fibre Channel, and is well suited for the high bandwidth and low latency performance needed for high-end clustered-computing applications.

FocalPoint is also the first switch fabric solution to deliver on the promise of convergence of server and storage traffic, with a complete set of advanced congestion management and traffic isolation and security capabilities, such as class-based pause and fully-configurable access control lists - all of which can operate at full line rate with no performance degradation.

 

The dual processor configuration uses the HT-2000 as a tunnel to the processors. By combining the HT-1000 with the HT-2000, servers can support four PCI-Express™ masters, an additional PCI-X® 64/133 bus, and native dual GbE Broadcom controllers.

HT-1000 can also be used to connect directly to the processors. This provides all the features needed for cost-effective volume servers, blades, and desktop systems. These features include 8x HT bus, PCI-X 64/133, SATA II, USB 2.0, 32-bit PCI, LPC, IDE, and SMBus.

 

The TERA1100 Portal Processor is designed to be integrated into a Desktop Portal, a small device at the end-user's desk. Input comes from the enterprise network via a standard Ethernet connector. Output is driven by one or two DVI ports for display and USB and audio ports for peripherals. The TERA1100 Portal Processor provides full visual fidelity and transparent I/O bridging including High Definition audio and USB functionality to create a true PC experience. The Desktop Portal is sleek, simple, stateless, fanless, and is independent of the host computing environment to meet the needs of a full range of users: from office workers to high-end, multi-display workstation users. The net result is a low cost, reliable Desktop Portal that requires minimal IT administration and support since all processing resides on the host PC or workstation.

 

The TERA1200 Host Processor interfaces with the system graphics controller on both the host computer's Northbridge and Southbridge for the DVI signal and I/O, respectively. The TERA1200 connects over standard hardware interfaces so that it can function with any operating system installed on the host computer. There are three different ways to integrate the TERA1200 Host Processor into the host PC or workstation:

• As part of a standard PCI Express card, the TERA1200 can be quickly and easily configured into personal workstations.
• The TERA1200 can be integrated onto a small daughter card installed in a PC Blade.
• The TERA1200 can be integrated directly onto a PC, workstation, or blade motherboard for a totally seamless implementation.

Product Features:

• Enterprise class performance and reliability in a small footprint with lower power consumption
• Typically consumes less than 20 watts of power and can be implemented using less than 10 square inches of card space
• Designed to deliver full redundancy and data protection ensuring no single point of failure
• Can perform RAID operations such as drive rebuild, RAID initialization and RAID migrations faster than any general purpose CPU driven software solutions on the market today.
• Support of 3Gb/s SAS/SATA and 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host and disk protocols and a PCI-X on a single chip
• Double the number of host and disk ports from previous generation products proving greater connectivity with twice the throughput
• Field proven enterprise class RAID Software further enhancing robustness and performance of a blade server
• The software is designed to communicate directly with the OEMs software that manages the other components within the blade server chassis.

IBM BladeCenter remains an innovative solution to running business solutions. IBM BladeCenter builds on the IBM commitment to integrating server, storage and networking functionality with technology exchange and heterogeneous management. IBM BladeCenter offers the ease, density, availability, affordability, and scalability that are central to the blade technology promise.

Blade servers have captured industry focus because of their modular design, which can reduce cost with a more efficient use of valuable floor space, and its simplified management, which can help to speed up such tasks as deploying, reprovisioning, updating, and troubleshooting hundreds of blade servers. In addition, blade servers provide improved performance by doubling current rack density. By integrating resources and sharing key components, not only will costs be reduced but also availability will be increased.

 

Centralized Control: Remotely shutdown and reboot terminals (Wake On LAN). Add, delete, or change software and configuration without visiting desktop or device.

IP Range Searches: Identify and inventory thin clients on your network. (ThinManage 2.0 maintains a permanent inventory database.)

Maintenance Scheduling: Schedule repetitive maintenance tasks on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. Install new versions of thin client operating systems from a central location. Avoid disruptions to work productivity by scheduling software and configuration updates at convenient times.

Device Grouping: Dynamically group network devices according to current organizational structure.

Scalability: Manage up to thousands of devices across multiple geographically disparate networks.

Intuitive GUI: Administrators learn quickly and use daily.

Error Reporting: Save time and resources when troubleshooting software updates.

Asset Reporting: Easily gather information on deployed hardware and software.

 

And we make it easier to manage.

Double-Take Application Manager (DTAM) is a unified console where you can manage all of your application protection options. Double-Take Application Manager currently supports Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server.

 

• Shortening the time to market, thereby maximizing the revenue generation opportunity
• Cutting costs for initial project development as well as for the on-going development necessary for technology and platform changes
• Reducing project risk by building on an Application Ready Platform™ that provides pre-tested and pre-integrated hardware, middleware and third party components.

SelfReliant services, such as high availability services, messaging services and systems management services are delivered as modular components, enabling development teams to chose the level of availability management services that are most important for their project. Some project teams start with SelfReliant Basic Availability Management (SR-BAM) to quickly and easily include high availability in a first release. They can use SR-BAM’s simple APIs to checkpoint applications to preserve state. Building upon these high availability features, project teams then gracefully upgrade to Advanced Suite for more sophisticated requirements. Other teams, knowing from the beginning that they need to achieve the highest levels of availability, will begin with Advanced Suite. Either way, SelfReliant can meet all of your high availability needs, from the most basic to the most complex.

 

IBM Director is provided at no additional charge for use on IBM Systems.

 

Exceptionally powerful, yet easy to implement and manage, NetApp SnapMirror software combines disaster recovery and data distribution in a streamlined solution that supports today's global enterprises. SnapMirror is a very cost-effective solution with efficient storage and network bandwidth utilization, and provides additional value by enabling you to put the DR site to active business use.

Simplicity Guarantees a Smooth Deployment

SnapMirror offers a straightforward set-up that you can easily replicate across all your NetApp storage systems. Once installed, SnapMirror requires minimal management, and NetApp SnapManager® software ensures effortless replication of application-consistent snapshots.

Efficient Storage Reduces Costs

SnapMirror can mirror data from FC storage to ATA storage, reducing storage costs. To reduce network usage, SnapMirror works with NetApp Snapshots™ to send only changed data blocks to the disaster recovery storage.

Accessible Data for Business Use

SnapMirror with FlexClone™ enables space-efficient copies to be created on the disaster recovery storage for other uses such as testing, development, and quality assurance, without affecting the production system. SnapMirror also enables centralized backup of data to tape from multiple data centers, reducing investment in tape infrastructure as well as offloading the production system from tape backups.

Seamless Backups Protect Data

SnapMirror mirrors the data to one or more NetApp storage systems, ensuring protection against both site and regional disasters. You configure the replication schedule that fits your business needs: synchronously or asynchronously, at intervals from minutes to hours to days.

 

Traditional backups store data on tape in proprietary formats accessible only through the backup application. SnapVault creates online backup archives in an accessible file system format. Users and/or administrators can securely and rapidly search and recover data directly from backups. SnapVault also provides near-instant disaster recovery by enabling users and applications to failover directly to the backup copy.

 

With the flexibility to schedule device updates, including application add-ons, OS patches, or complete imaging, when most convenient for users, IT can reduce overall downtime to prevent any loss of productivity. Meanwhile, powerful device grouping capabilities and ability to enforce default configurations give network administrators maximum performance and flexibility in provisioning and managing devices on the network.

Wyse Device Manager Workgroup edition comes bundled with all Wyse thin computers. This version of the software provides comprehensive management control for smaller installations. The powerful Enterprise edition delivers increased device management capabilities, and scales up to hundreds of thousands of clients.

Both versions are easy to use, leverage web-services technology, and are easy to install. Plus, with Wyse Device Manager Installation Services, the Wyse Professional Services team will work with your unique requirements to ensure a successful implementation and smooth rollout of your Wyse Device Manager solution.

 

With the flexibility to deploy applications independent of the streamed operating system, Wyse Streaming Manager allows customers to standardize operating system images across their organization and deliver applications based on user roles and responsibilities. Administrators can also easily provision new applications or updates to existing applications without having to modify the operating system image.

With Wyse Streaming Manager, IT administrators gain the granular control they need to ensure the consistency of deployed software across the enterprise. It also dramatically reduces the IT time and costs associated with deploying and maintaining software across the enterprise. By deploying operating system and applications patches centrally, downtime and IT staff time is greatly reduced. Each end user simply reboots their thin-client device to ensure that the client software is upgraded to the latest patch level.

 

Trillium protocol software from Continuous Computing is synonymous with high quality and superior performance. Trillium Diameter software leverages this strong heritage to simplify the Next Generation Network (NGN) and propel telecommunications toward innovative revenue-generating services. Trillium Diameter source code helps telecom equipment manufacturers successfully address common concerns such as interoperability, security, quality of service, and legacy interworking through Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) services.

Trillium Diameter features:

Trillium protocol software from Continuous Computing is synonymous with high quality, superior performance, and technology leadership. The company's legacy in the 3G Wireless, Voice over IP (VoIP), SS7, and SIGTRAN markets is naturally extending as Trillium solutions evolve into the budding IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) market.

Continuous Computing specializes in the very core of IMS:

• Standards-based Trillium IMS Protocol Software
• Field-proven AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI hardware
• Professional Services and Complete System Integration

Diameter, COPS, SIP, H.248/MEGACO, RTP/RTCP, SCTP, and more – there is a Trillium protocol stack for everything required in the IMS network. Beyond mere building blocks, Continuous Computing offers unrivaled expertise in understanding the intricacies of converged signaling, policy management, and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) critical to the core of IMS. As such, the Trillium team is well versed in the functions of the Call Session Control Function (CSCF), Home Subscriber Server (HSS), Media Resource Function (MRF), Policy Decision Function (PDF), and other IMS network elements.

Continuous Computing's breadth of experience in the key constituents that make up IMS – Wireless, VoIP and AdvancedTCA – positioning the company as the preferred choice for IMS solutions. Leveraging over nine years of innovation in these market forerunners, Continuous Computing is the ideal partner for enabling telecom equipment manufacturers to successfully deploy IMS infrastructure.

 

Widely regarded by industry experts as a “gold standard” for protocol stack solutions, Trillium® software from Continuous Computing® empowers telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to develop reliable, high-performance network elements for wireless, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) applications.

Trillium software enables telecom equipment manufacturers of Softswitches, Signaling Gateways, Signal Transfer Points, Media Gateway Controllers and other products to accelerate time to market, reduce development costs and decrease project risk and complexity.

The foundation of all Trillium products is the Trillium Advanced Portability Architecture (TAPA®), an elite set of proprietary architectural and coding standards. TAPA ensures complete independence from the target system’s compiler, processor, operating system or architecture, delivering field-proven customer benefits that include reliability, consistency and compressed learning curves. TAPA defines a set of interfaces that control all interactions between the Trillium software and the target system.

Trillium software solutions include an innovative, patented model for software scalability and reliability, the Distributed Fault-Tolerance / High Availability (DFT/HA) architecture. Designed to distribute the processing load across multiple processors, DFT/HA is a software advantage that magnifies performance and extensibility while enabling "rolling upgrades."

 

Trillium protocol software from Continuous Computing is synonymous with high quality and superior performance. Trillium SIP software leverages this strong heritage to simplify the network and propel telecommunications toward innovative revenue-generating services. Trillium SIP helps telecom equipment manufacturers address common concerns such as interoperability, security, quality of service, and legacy interworking.

The broad variety of products enabled by Trillium SIP include soft phones, ADSL modems, back-to-back (B2B) SIP User Agents (UAs), Call Session Control Functions (CSCFs), Softswitches, Multiservice Switching Platforms, SIP Application Servers, and Service Delivery Platforms. SIP is a common standard for voice and video services enabling applications such as Push-To-Talk (PTT), Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP), and Voice-over-WiFi (VoWiFi or ViFi).

Designed to meet carrier-grade, standards-based, interoperable features, Trillium SIP is an enhanced protocol software package that supports over 40 standardized extensions and is optimized for usability and performance. These extensions range from Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence to Quality of Service (QoS) and Security – all of which propel the evolution to SIP signaling.

Trillium SIP software, coupled with Continuous Computing’s full set of bladed hardware systems and professional services, reinforces the company’s position as a thought leader to help accelerate the development and deployment of popular NGN applications and wireless infrastructure. Leveraging almost twenty years of innovation in protocol software, Trillium SIP is the ideal protocol for building NGN and IMS applications.

 

Once installed, Double-Take continuously replicates changes to data, applications, and the source server's operating system, protecting the entire server. When it’s time to recover, the Recovery Manager allows the user to configure and perform full-server recovery quickly with added validation steps to make sure recovery will go as planned. Double-Take Server Recovery Option can also be used to migrate a server to different hardware, allowing you to repurpose licenses for disaster recovery.

Double-Take Server Recovery Option is the first of its kind to combine continuous data replication with continuous system state protection and allows recovery from either the real-time image of the system or a snapshot image of the system from a previous point-in-time. This additional flexibility makes the solution ideal for recovering from unwanted changes such as viruses, corruption and accidental deletions.

 

Current IT security compliance solutions are limited as they approach the needs of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FISMA, Basel 2 and Visa CISP reporting. Batch-oriented, clumsy and slow, with no integration with real-time security operations and current threats, they are frustrating to use, limited in their usefulness and invariably reactive – sometimes only making reports available hours, days or weeks after a security compliance violation occur.

LogCenter from OpenService breaks the mold for security compliance reporting, analysis and log archiving. Coupling InfoCenter's integrated, east to deploy, high performance security event management architecture with a new compliance-oriented, real-time reporting engine, LogCenter delivers compliance reports on demand, as the data is collected from the security sensors. For the first time, CSOs, compliance officers, auditors and forensic analysts are able to identify, examine and manage security compliance issues on an intra-period basis, enabling much more efficient, more effective and more timely responses to potential compliance or audit issues.

 

Security Management Center is certified with Fusion Dynamic's DynamicOE™ Operating Environment and optimized on IBM eServer® BladeCenter™. This combination provides a superior blade computing platform for server consolidation, performance and a more manageable environment to achieve efficiencies of operation. SMC builds on the benefits of BladeCenter™ to provide a cost-effective, highly reliable and modular security and compliance management platform.

Security Management Center, running on IBM eServer® BladeCenter™, can yield significantly better protection from already deployed security systems with a demonstrable ROI.

 

Unlike security management toolkits that can be expensive and time-consuming to deploy and maintain, ThreatCenter deploys in days, not months. With ThreatCenter, your security operations team can respond more quickly, more effectively, freeing up staff time for proactive mitigation and vulnerability management activities.

 

Our Snapshot technology enables you to create point-in-time copies of file systems, which you can use to protect data—from a single file to a complete disaster recovery solution.

You can use Snapshot while applications are running and create a Snapshot copies in less than a second, regardless of volume size or level of activity on your NetApp system.

Make up to 255 Snapshot copies per volume, instantly, to create online backups for user-driven recovery.

Key Points:

• Perform instant backups with no performance hit, while applications are running
• Copy important data frequently—up to 255 Snapshot copies per volume—in minimal storage space
• Combine with SnapMirror®, SnapRestore®, SnapManager®, and SnapVault® software to build your data protection solution

Wyse Thin OS offers the utmost security and protection from viruses and malicious software because the operating system does not have a publicly exposed API that can be exploited by hackers. Also, since Wyse Thin OS centrally stores and manages all data and applications, desktop devices store no data, further protecting sensitive information. Image management is automated via DHCP and FTP, while Wyse Device Manager (formerly Rapport) handles additional remote device management.

 

Wyse Thin OS requires a minimum of 32MB of RAM on any thin device. It is supported on the Wyse S10 and Wyse S10-VDI Edition thin clients.

 

Currently supported on the following products:

• Nortel Layer 2-3 GbESM for IBM BladeCenter
• Nortel Layer 2-7 GbESM for IBM BladeCenter
• Nortel 1/10 Gb Uplink ESM for IBM BladeCenter
• Nortel 10 Gb Uplink ESM for IBM BladeCenter
• Nortel 10 Gb ESM for IBM BladeCenter H/HT
• HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch for HP BladeSystem p-Class
• HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• HP GbE2c L2/L3 Ethernet Blade Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• HP 10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
• NEC 1Gb Intelligent L2 Switch for NEC SigmaBlade
• NEC 1Gb Intelligent L3 Switch for NEC SigmaBlade
• RackSwitch G8000 and G8100

Highlights

• Client-server architecture - Centralization of critical network asset information integrates with Enterprise security structure while enabling access with minimal risk from mobile clients
• Web-based GUI for simplified device configuration, monitoring, and fault management - Easy and cost-effective method to monitor, configure, and maintain switches utilizing COTS technologies
• Integration with industry-leading Enterprise Management Systems (e.g.: HP SIM, IBM Director) - Minimal effort insertion into existing management schemas, eliminating fork-lift upgrade or wholesale swap-out of installed managers
• Customizable reporting of detailed asset, operational and performance information - Global view of all BLADE Network Technologies Top of Rack or embedded switches on your network with simplified asset and fault management
• Automated and scheduled software downloads, configuration updates/backups, switch reboots, etc - Simplifies deployment and ongoing configuration management. Detects success or failure of the operation on each switch

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This application software enables customers to trend actual power consumption and corresponding thermal loading of BladeCenter Servers running in their environment with their applications.

 

Key Points:

• Discover critical performance metrics and their impact on applications across the SAN, saving management time and reducing labor costs.
• Shift 50% or more of the application load to lower-cost tiers by easily identifying low-traffic applications that are attached to tier 1 storage.
• Load-balance proactively the entire application portfolio across the storage fabric to defer capital expenditures by 10% or more.
• Uncover switch-related issues that cause application performance problems.
• Identify array contention and bottlenecks in the context of impacted hosts and applications.

Lower capital costs through improved resource utilization and application performance.

Without being able to see and evaluate performance within your storage environment, you cannot keep it running at peak efficiency. SANscreen Application Insight captures real-time performance information from your san and maps it to applications, hosts, and access paths. With Application Insight you can ensure that applications are receiving the right performance from your networked storage resources at the lowest possible cost.

Save on capital expenditures by increasing fabric and array utilization and enabling tiering. Reduce labor costs by enabling IT managers to institute a proactive capacity planning strategy that prevents bottlenecks.

Support server consolidation without performance bottlenecks and assist in port and storage reclamation projects.

Identify array contention and bottlenecks in the context of impacted hosts and applications with the Array Performance Module for Application Insight.

 

NerveCenter specifically consists of an application server designed to manage network data and an interface to create and manage such applications. The applications work behind the scenes, feeding output to tools like OpenView or NetCool, or to ticket systems; it is not intended to act as an end-user console. Intelligent data collection, combined with finite-state correlation capabilities, allow the administrator a great deal of flexibility. The product ships with a lot of sample applications, but the real power comes when applications have been created that incorporate site-specific knowledge. Where a simple monitoring tool might, for example, report on each of fifteen servers that have become unreachable, NerveCenter might report once that an interface on a router has been taken administratively down in accordance with change ticket XXX, impeding access to fifteen servers. In large enterprises or service providers, the high-quality information results in the solution paying for itself rapidly.

 

ZXTM is available as software, as hardware appliances and as a Virtual Appliance (for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3).

 

ZXTM LB adds load balancing and resilience to your services, with high-performance SSL and content compression, content-aware traffic management rules and flexible health monitoring. It offers a low-cost starting point, with a smooth and cost-effective upgrade path to scale as your service grows.

 

• Physical hardware discovery, bare metal provisioning of Virtualization Services, and resource monitoring.
• Virtual Infrastructure environment creation and hierarchy, visual status dashboards, access controls, performance statistics and event monitoring.
• Virtual Server creation, configuration, management, deletion and LiveMigration™.
• Policy-based automation including LiveCapacity™, LiveRecovery™, LiveMaintenance™ and custom policies.
• Reports on physical and virtual resource utilization, jobs and system events.

Virtual Iron virtualizes network and storage connections to provide access to the resources of external networks. Virtual networks are configured on the management server and decouple the association of virtual servers from physical gateways and fibre channel switches, simplifying virtual server configuration and migrations. Each virtual device is equally accessible from any physical server and supports multi-pathing to provide load balancing and hardware failover transparently to the guest operating system.

 

• Manage virtual desktops from a single point of control
• Increase security and flexibility for mobile and remote workers
• Safely extend corporate resources to 3rd party unmanaged PCs
• Deliver fully configured virtual desktops for demos and training

Revolutionize the way your organization manages enterprise desktops.

Remote workers, business partners and third-party service providers all need access to corporate data and network resources, yet IT must also adhere to an ever-growing list of security and corporate governance regulations that are often at odds with user needs. As a result, many organizations are seeking ways to increase flexibility for their end-users without compromising security and control over endpoint PCs and other critical IT assets.

Harness the Power of Desktop Virtualization

VMware ACE 2 is a comprehensive enterprise solution that organizations use to provision standardized client PC environments inside secure, centrally managed virtual machines called ACEs. Each ACE contains a complete client PC—including the operating system and all applications. Desktop administrators use the dynamic policy configuration capabilities in ACE to lock down endpoints with device and network access control, there by protecting confidential company data and ensuring compliance with IT polices.

Use Workstation 6 with the ACE Option Pack to create, package and deploy ACEs to local and remote endpoints such as laptop and desktop PCs, or even portable USB devices such as thumb drives and portable hard drives.

Once deployed, use the ACE 2 Management Server to monitor ACEs and enforce corporate policies from a central location. The ACE 2 Management Server enables administrators to deliver dynamic policy updates to local and remote ACE instances, as well as to control the activation and de-activation of each package for contractors, consultants and other temporary users.

 

Start Achieving the Benefits of Virtualization

• ESX Server installs on the “bare metal” and allows multiple unmodified operating systems and their applications to run in virtual machines that share physical resources.
• Each virtual machine represents a complete system, with processors, memory, networking, storage and BIOS.
• Advanced resource allocation policies for virtual machines allow you to guarantee resources to even your most resource-intensive applications.

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• Extend powerful VMware Infrastructure 3 capabilities such as business continuity and disaster recovery to your desktops.
• Streamline desktop management to reduce operating costs and increase control.
• Deliver complete desktop environments with greater application compatibility.

Now with the new VMware Virtual Desktop Manager 2—For simplified management and secure provisioning of virtual desktops.

VMware VDI: An Integrated Desktop Virtualization Solution

VMware VDI is an integrated desktop virtualization solution that delivers enterprise-class control and manageability with a familiar user experience. VMware VDI, built on VMware’s industry leading and proven virtualization platform, provides new levels of efficiency and reliability for your virtual desktop environment.

With VMware VDI, you get the proven VMware Infrastructure 3 software along with VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), an enterprise-class desktop management server that securely connects users to virtual desktops in the data center and provides an easy to use web-based interface to manage the centralized environment. VMware VDI provides users with desktop business continuity, high availability and disaster recovery capabilities that until now were available only for mission-critical server applications.

Streamline Management, Reduce Costs & Increase Security

Organizations worldwide use VMware VDI to streamline desktop management, increase security, and reduce costs. Using VMware VDI, the time it takes to deploy a desktop is typically reduced to minutes, optimizing the value of IT resources and getting end users productive faster. VMware VDM is a flexible and intuitive desktop management server enabling IT administrators to quickly provision and tightly control user access. With these operational and security savings, customers realize a significant return on investment from their VMware VDI deployments.

Deliver Complete Desktop Environments for a Familiar User Experience

With VMware VDI, end users get a complete, unmodified virtual desktop that behaves just like a normal PC. There is no change to the applications or desktop environment, no application sharing and no retraining required. Administrators can allow users to install applications, customize their desktop environment and use local printers and USB devices. Users also get better support with VMware VDI because Help Desk technicians can perform tasks in the data center that would normally require an in-person visit.

 

Move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no impact to end users. VMware VMotion keeps your IT environment up and running, giving you unprecedented flexibility and availability to meet the increasing demands of your business and end users.

Experience Game-changing Virtual Machine Mobility

VMware VMotion technology, unique to VMware, leverages the complete virtualization of servers, storage and networking to move an entire running virtual machine instantaneously from one server to another. The entire state of a virtual machine is encapsulated by a set of files stored on shared storage, and VMware’s VMFS cluster file system allows both the source and the target VMware ESX server to access these virtual machine files concurrently. The active memory and precise execution state of a virtual machine can then be rapidly transmitted over a high speed network. Since the network is also virtualized by VMware ESX, the virtual machine retains its network identity and connections, ensuring a seamless migration process.

VMware VMotion allows you to:

• Perform live migrations with zero downtime, undetectable to the user.
• Continuously and automatically optimize virtual machines within resource pools.
• Perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.
• Proactively move virtual machines away from failing or underperforming servers.

Reliably Manage Live Migrations with Ease

Benefit from the reliability and manageability derived from a production-proven product used by thousands of customers for years. Live migration of virtual machines across your infrastructure is surprisingly simple with functionality that lets you:

• Perform multiple concurrent migrations to continuously optimize a virtual IT environment.
• Identify the optimal placement for a virtual machine in seconds with a migration wizard providing real-time availability information.
• Migrate any virtual machine running any operating system across any type of hardware and storage supported by VMware ESX, including Fibre Channel SAN, NAS and iSCSI SAN.
• Prioritize live migrations to ensure that mission-critical virtual machines maintain access to the resources they need.
• Schedule migrations to happen at pre-defined times, and without an administrator’s presence.
• Maintain an audit trail with a detailed record of migrations.

VMware VMotion is included in the VMware Infrastructure Enterprise edition. VMware VMotion and VMware Storage VMotion are available as an add-on product to VMware Infrastructure Foundation and Standard editions.

 

• Eliminate the need for separate server connections for storage, interprocessor communications, and LAN/WAN networks
• Improve application performance, lower latency, lower CPU load, and use less physical space and power than competing solutions
• Scale network I/O and servers independently
• Virtually pool and share I/O between servers
• Simplify network cabling and reduce power and cooling requirements
• Dramatically improve the total cost of cluster and grid computing

The 9xx0 series platform is an extremely flexible slot-independent chassis-based system. Chassis configurations come in 24, 12, 8, 4, and 2 slot versions ranging in size from 14U to 1U, and can be populated with a variety of InfiniBand SDR (10 Gbps) and DDR (20 Gbps) switching and Virtual I/O Controller (VIC) modules. VIC modules enable hosts on InfiniBand fabrics to transparently access either Fibre Channel or Ethernet networks or both. All option modules are interchangeable in any slot in any chassis.

 

The Voltaire Grid Director ISR 9288 is the industry's largest InfiniBand switching solution featuring 10 Gbps (or 20 Gbps with DDR) of full bisectional bandwidth for 288 ports in a single chassis. The Voltaire Grid Director ISR 9288 is ideal for large-scale HPC clusters.

For applications with lower port density requirements, a smaller version of the Grid Director ISR 9288 is available. The Grid Director ISR 9096 is the industry's highest performing multi-service switch for medium-to-large high performance computing clusters and enterprise grids. The Grid Director ISR 9096 supports up to 96 InfiniBand 4X (20 Gbps) ports (or 10 Gbps with SDR) , 32 InfiniBand 12X (30 Gbps) ports or 48 intelligent GbE or Fibre Channel ports.

The Voltaire Grid Switch ISR 9024 is a high performance, low latency, fully non-blocking edge or leaf switch with a throughput of 480 Gbps. The Grid Switch ISR 9024 is also perfectly-suited for small-to-medium-sized InfiniBand clusters as it includes all of the necessary management capabilities to function as a stand-alone switch. With twenty-four, 10 Gbps ports in a 1U chassis, the standards-based Grid Switch ISR 9024 delivers high bandwidth and low latency at affordable pricing.

The Voltaire Grid Switch ISR 6000 is a high performance, non blocking switching solution for database clusters and entry-level HPC configurations. The Grid Switch ISR 6000 is a modular solution that can function as an 8, 14 or 18 port InfiniBand switch and offers high performance connectivity to FC and IP networks.

 

• Delivers highest chassis throughput and performance in the industry. Especially important in High Performance Computing environments, this modules enables BladeCenter server systems to form high-performance clusters and grids that deliver the performance required to realize the full potential of next-generations applications and systems.
• Combined with DDR HCAs, this module provides 14 4x DDR ports of connectivity to blades and 14 4x DDR external ports from the BladeCenter H chassis
• Supports Message Passing Interface (MPI), IP over InfiniBand® (IPoIB), and Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP), which use InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to support the most demanding high-performance computing applications and high-performance database clusters

It also includes a mini-USB management port, fourteen 1000Base-CX links to servers while providing 104Gbps of full line rate performance with mission-critical availability and resiliency. Availability features include: Link