What you talkin' 'bout, fool? Does anybody else remember the "A-Team” – Murdock, B.A. Baracus, Hannibal, and Faceman? When planning a mission, George Peppard – the one-time-“Banacek” star – and the “A-Team's” Hannibal, coined the line, "I love it when a plan comes together..." Well, we've been working with a group of Fed IT pros to put together a little caper of our own.

Storage Foundation Volume Manager Operations will co-exist with Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management) without any performance penalties.  VERITAS Storage Foundation Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides Seamless Multi-path failover capabilities and is complementary to ASM for both high availability and performance.  Customers who wish to use Oracle ASM and VERITAS Storage Foundation together should be careful to follow the procedures.  Oracle ASM is a new feature of Oracle 10g to streamline storage management and provisioning.  ASM provides volume and (CLU

By now most IT managers have heard the buzz around “e-discovery”. Depending on who is asking about it or requesting it, what they expect could be vastly different from what you plan on implementing. With my experience of implementing and supporting e-discovery solutions, I hope to clear up some of the confusion around e-discovery’s nomenclature and shed some light on some e-discovery solutions that provide the most bang for their buck. First off, let’s define e-discovery.

Ever walked into a hot data center and fear for the life of the machines?  Maybe while walking in that data center you tripped on a loose tile and did the Macarena trying to catch your balance just to end up taking a foot and a half drop because of the raised floor?  Well, progress is great!!  As of late, engineers everywhere have adopted a way to use the key principle of physics in data center layouts.  In the older data-centers cold air would be sent from the space under the raised floor to cool the datacenter but this would require extra energy (see figure below).

Virtualization is very much on the minds of IT managers this year. Some have the vision of a low power, smoothly running, optimized data center; thinly staffed but capable of provisioning new users almost instantaneously (AKA 'Nirvana').

With the recent rush over the last decade to virtualize everything in the enterprise and products being marketed with “Green” or “Cloud” somewhere in the tagline, you would think that there was nothing left to virtualize.  If you make that assumption, you would be wrong. In many cases virtualization has truly consolidated the overall data center footprint, brought high availability to most environments that would otherwise not have it, and simplified the management of our overall servers.  I am quite sure the list can be elaborated on to include several points about being