HERMES SoftLab Joins Storage Revolution.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Toigo Partners International (TPI (Tracks Per Inch) The measurement of the density of the storage channels on a disk or tape. Track density on magnetic disks has reached 125,000 tpi (125 Ktpi). See bpi, areal density and magnetic disk. ), storage products test laboratory TPI Technologies, and the Data Management Institute, a professional development community for IT decision-makers who manage and protect data, announced today two new developments in their consumer-driven storage management initiative, StorageRevolution.com. First, the Data Management Institute has completed a requirements analysis (project) requirements analysis - The process of reviewing a business's processes to determine the business needs and functional requirements that a system must meet. for the burgeoning freeware Software that is distributed without charge and which may be redistributed without charge by its users. However, ownership is retained by the developer who may change future releases from freeware to a paid product (feeware). See shareware, free software and public domain software. storage management framework, called CAPSAIL. DMI (Desktop Management Interface) The first desktop management standard from the DMTF. Enabling PCs to be monitored from a central console, it was superseded by the DMTF's Common Information Model (see CIM). conducted survey-based interviews with more than 200 IT professionals working within large, medium and smaller firms. The survey process captured detailed information about the state of current storage and data management technology from the viewpoint of managers and administrators, and produced a detailed requirements list for functionality that will need to be provided by the CAPSAIL framework. These requirements will be translated into design and code by HERMES SoftLab, Europe's premiere Software Engineering and IT Solutions Company, headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with subsidiaries in five countries, including Mountain View, CA. HERMES has today joined the StorageRevolution effort and will contribute significant intellectual property and effort to bringing the StorageRevolution effort to life. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jon Toigo, chairman of the Data Management Institute and founder of the StorageRevolution.com initiative, the addition of HERMES SoftLab to the CAPSAIL development community comes at just the right time. "Since announcing the effort late last year," Toigo reported, "we have been busy doing what none of the industry-sponsored storage management standards groups have done: we have been asking end users of technology what they need. The results have been gathered and we have some excellent insights into what is required to facilitate strategic, application-facing storage management. HERMES brings the recognized software design competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. and storage technology expertise to push CAPSAIL 1.0 into the real world." StorageRevolution.com was formed last year as a consumer-driven alternative to industry-based storage management initiatives. Early on, the effort attracted over one hundred participants via its website at www.storagerevolution.com. Toigo said, "It quickly became apparent that, before we began developing software, we needed to get a fix on user requirements - something that does not appear to have been done by the other developers. The Data Management Institute began collecting survey input from companies and developing use cases to guide the challenging development of the free framework." At the same time that CAPSAIL requirements were being defined, Toigo opened a dialog with HERMES SoftLab, which has done behind-the-scenes software development for prominent players in the storage industry for more than a decade. He visited HERMES headquarters in the Slovenian capital, in concert with the launch of the HERMES Storage Competence Center in September 2006. Toigo said, "I met with HERMES management and the staff and was, frankly, amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. by the depth of knowledge of the crew and their many accomplishments that had never been reported in the trade press. There was a natural chemistry between what we were seeking to do and intellectual property that this firm had already developed. That they were willing to contribute their resources to StorageRevolution.com was an unexpected plus." "The concept behind StorageRevolution.com is the ultimate storage management software challenge and our Storage Competence Center is the right address for delivering it," said Peter Testen, HERMES SoftLab's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "What is simplifying the whole process and also gives us additional motivation, is working directly with end users and the ability to have direct feedback on the real needs in the storage environments." Armed with the capabilities of HERMES SoftLab, StorageRevolution.com is poised to deliver on its vision: a vendor neutral, application aware, storage management framework. Unlike other industry efforts, which have been hamstrung ham·string n. 1. Any of the tendons at the rear hollow of the human knee. 2. or hamstrings The hamstring muscle. 3. The large tendon in the back of the hock of a quadruped. tr.v. by proprietary vendor interests and failed to produce a working approach to date, CAPSAIL does not require the cooperation of storage hardware vendors to realize its goals of heterogeneous, application-facing, storage management. It is user driven. The CAPSAIL framework is simply a mechanism to enable users to pick best of breed management software and to identify their services for use across storage arrays from any vendor. It is conceived as middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a between applications and end users who require storage resources and data management services and software and hardware that comprise the storage infrastructure. Said Toigo, "Once available, this framework will provide consumers with the ability to begin purpose-building their infrastructure to meet their own business needs rather than settling for `one-size-fits-most' storage products from vendors that fail to satisfy anyone's requirements very well." A design meeting scheduled for November 1 in Orlando, FL will lay out the timeline for the work that remains to be accomplished. Testing will be performed at the HERMES Storage Competence Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and at TPI Technologies in Clearwater, FL. TPI Technologies is the testing laboratory of the Data Management Institute. About Jon Toigo Toigo, a veteran with more than 20 years of IT operations and management experience both inside corporate IT organizations and as an external consultant, architect and integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. , is also a noted author of 13 books on information technology, including what some critics regard as the Bible of storage technology - The Holy Grail Holy Grail: see Grail, Holy. A very desired object or outcome that borders on a sacred quest. There are several Holy Grails in the computer business. of Data Storage Management (Prentice Hall Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. History In 1913, law professor Dr. PTR PTR Pointer (as used in DNS records; an address points to a name) PTR Partner PTR Painter PTR Proton Transfer Reaction PTR Pupil/Teacher Ratio PTR Public Test Realm (gaming, World of Warcraft) : 2000) - and several editions of Disaster Recovery Planning, a practical guide to contingency planning used by organizations throughout the world. Toigo is also a prominent columnist columnist, the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has supplanted the editorial for authoritative opinions on world problems. for several online and print magazines covering IT, including SearchStorage.com, Enterprise Systems Journal online (esj.com), and Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. online, where his commentary on data storage technology and data protection is read by more than nearly 500,000 subscribers monthly. Toigo adds another 120,000 readers with his hugely popular blog blog, short for web log, an online, regularly updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general public by virtue of being posted on a website. , DrunkenData.com, covering storage technology and data management issues. About TPI's Data Management Institute DMI is a membership organization to establish a professional identity for those who administer, manage and design data storage infrastructure for their organizations. It provides a location for end users to share their problems and solutions in day-to-day storage operations and compare experiences with specific storage products implemented in their shops. The institute offers a training and certification program designed to educate and empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems IT workers who specialize spe·cial·ize v. 1. To limit one's profession to a particular specialty or subject area for study, research, or treatment. 2. To adapt to a particular function or environment. in data management and storage administration. DMI is also the sponsor of several technology initiatives, including the National Data Awareness Project (NDAP NDAP National Digital Archives Program (Taiwan) NDAP Novell Directory Access Protocol NDAP National Disability Advocacy Program ), StorageRevolution.com (an effort to build an open source application-aware framework for storage management), the Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Summit, and the Purpose-Built Storage Initiative. About HERMES SoftLab HERMES SoftLab is an international company providing IT solutions and software engineering services, serving storage and data management vendors, hi-tech vendors, telecommunication telecommunication Communication between parties at a distance from one another. Modern telecommunication systems—capable of transmitting telephone, fax, data, radio, or television signals—can transmit large volumes of information over long distances. service providers, financial institutions and the public sector. The company was established in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1990. Since then it has grown into an international enterprise with its headquarters in Slovenia as well as offices across Europe and in the USA. About HERMES SoftLab Storage Competence Center The HERMES Softlab Storage Competence Center (www.hermes-softlab.com/storage)is located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Featuring a state of the art range of essential software building blocks, the center enables storage vendors to optimize end user solutions. Using the extensive consulting expertise of the HERMES team, time to market is reduced and tailor made configurations may be rapidly deployed to meet demanding end user requirements. Jon Toigo < Goran Garevski Toigo Partners International < Business Development Manager Managing Principal < Storage and Data Management Data Management Institute < HERMES SoftLab Founder < Litijska 51, SI-1000 1538 Patricia Avenue < Ljubljana, Slovenia Dunedin, FL 34698 USA < O: +386-1-5865-356 O: 727-736-5367 < F: +386-1-5865-270 F: 727-736-8353 < C: +386-31-336-926 C: 727-504-9311 < goran.garevski@hermes.si jtoigo@toigopartners.com < http://www.hermes-softlab.com/storage |
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