Other / future items if time and desirable (feel free to submit others):
- I have handouts on APC High Density Cooling solutions including
pricing on an 40 rack, 12KW/rack chilled-water engineered solution
proposed for UCSB. We are facilitating APC's contact with Steven
Benedict's Strategic Sourcing office to affect better pricing. APC would
like to present to JDCMG at a future date. IBM also has a solution, Cool
Blue, that we could look into.
- I have handouts and quotes for Open Systems Storage pricing from HP
(EVA8000) ). Pricing @$100K for 6TB (3TB 10KFC, 3TB FATA), perf > 200k
iops, 1500MBs, 3 years TCO, virtualization, 1TB snapshot, growth to
72TB. Also have EMC via Dell (CX500/700) pricing.
- Evolution of colo models. We touched on this early on in our meetings.
with some sites looking for new models. Anything successful? UCSB is
looking to convert the IS&C Data Center to a Research Computing Data
Center with a staffed, full cost recovery financial model as a vehicle
to renovation.
- Fundamental Software FLEXCUB / FLEX-ES mainframe and device emulation.
UCSB is looking at using the FLEXCUB (Control Unit Behavior) in lieu of
the Bus-Tech solution to provide vtape, vdasd, remote IPL consoles, and mapping of open systems tape as 3490/3590 devices on a DR machine. Full emulation is in the $30k range. FLEX-ES is the hardware emulator that T3
/ Cornerstone uses, which is the systems noted in Tony's note a month or
so ago. I forwarded Michael Yuan's licensing concerns to Fundamental,
and am told that much has been resolved in this area. Fundamental has a
large installed base at ISV's, Production shops and internally at IBM
(over 700 I am told). They can get 200MIPS on a quad x86. Biggest
current limitations: ESCON only support (FICON coming) and IBM license
restrictions to 31 bit mode. They would like to present to JDCMG.
- x86 and other non-mainframe (Sun, AIX, ??) DR. We already know that
the mainframe is not enough ...
- x86 Virtual Machine (either VMware or Xen) Working Groups. Why should
each campus looking to implement Virtualization have to reinvent the wheel?
- HR1386 / Data Security Practices at each campus. How are we protecting
our data? Who is doing it?
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