As part of IBM's Global Services organization, the HPSS team in Houston offers a variety of services, including storage systems consulting services. HPSS systems engineers collectively represent over 50 years of experience dealing with mass storage systems, hierarchical storage management technology, and related requirements for customers world-wide. Using proven systems engineering methods and tools, the engineers follow a rigorous process to analyze requirements, develop a system-level architecture, propose design alternatives, validate requirements against possible solutions identifying remaining gaps, and provide recommendations for follow-on actions and closure. Services are tailored to specific needs, including phased approaches that logically sequence tasks allowing the scope of services to be adjusted based on time and budget constraints.
For additional information on how the HPSS team can serve your storage systems needs, please contact Bob Coyne at 281-992-7129 or send e-mail to coyne@us.ibm.com.
| 2011 HPSS Users Forum - The HPSS Users Forum (HUF) will be held at Indiana University (IU) the 3rd week of October. There will be a reception on the evening of Monday, October 17th, to allow participants to pick up their registration packet. The conference itself will run October 18th through noon on October 21st. Expectation is that the web-site will be setup by early June to allow users to register, view the draft agenda, and obtain other related information about the meeting. The length of the conference has been expanded to 3 1/2 days to accommodate more presentations and additional topics. |
| Purdue University: Data Storage Archive- Information Technology at Purdue will be upgrading the Fortress archive system from EMC's DiskXtender (DXUL) to IBM's High Performance Storage System (HPSS). In addition to the new archive data, HPSS will manage and retrieve the legacy data on DXUL tapes. For more details, please visit http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/detail.cfm?NewsID=475 |
| Library of Congress: Data Storage Archive - The Library of Congress has acquired HPSS for use in the National Audiovisual Conservation Center. The NAVCC is located in Washington, DC and at the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, located in Virginia. |